No insights to offer, but my career so far has been based around accept nothing, believe no one, challenge everything. So my two cents on this:
This is one person’s experience of their application route to this firm. That alone should be enough to apply on your own merits — your application could be just as strong even if it differs drastically.
While I’m yet to experience the end result of a TC, I also doubt that the individual fully knows exactly what it was that gained them a TC/VS in the first place. Yes, they may have put in countless hours, from the time they hit puberty, into the pursuit of a legal career, but it may well be the case that Graduate Recruitment thought: “Yep — checks academic requirements, answered application questions to a good standard, tested well, interviewed well and had no major dramas on the VS." The preparation for that does not require years of singular focus towards a specific firm (in my opinion).
The idea that spending a week writing an application is insufficient is ridiculous. Unless they are referring to the entire process of achieving the grades or work experience, this is both unrealistic and inefficient. Most firms have 2–4 application questions, probably with an average word count of about 300 words. It may well take multiple years to build the experiences behind those answers, but it certainly doesn’t take that long to craft responses good enough to get through the application sift — a week is more than enough time.
Sorry for the long post — I’m tired and rambling — but just wanted to say: don’t let this person discourage you from anything. You are more than good enough
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apologies if they are a real person
matter of fact where’s everyone from ahh
- can we at least get some lovely introductions, if poss, so we can better direct our queries?
