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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26
- Thread starter Ram Sabaratnam
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i would love for anyone who has been involved in the recruitment side of an SJT to explain what they see and how they use our responses to filter us, it makes 0 sense to me as a tangible differentiator
I sent an email to ask about the progress of screening summer vs after I passed the benchmark for so long, and they replied really generically:
"Thank you for your email. It is great to hear you have applied to our summer internship programme.
Applications are currently being reviewed, and candidates will be contacted via email in due course regarding any update. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding."
Having seen a lot of PFOs on the forum recently, and having had my fair share as well, I thought I’d share this in case it helps uplift anyone.
Skadden was always my dream firm, so when I got rejected, it hurt, especially because I put so much effort into my application. I was really disappointed, but as this is my first cycle, I made it a goal to stay as positive as possible regardless of any news I receive from firms.
The day after my Skadden rejection, I had an AC at Osborne Clarke. That’s how brutal this process can be. Regardless, I picked myself up, continued to prepare, and it ended up going very well.
This process can be incredibly hard and draining, but I’ve found that trying to stay positive where possible really does help. You genuinely never know what will happen if you keep believing in yourself and pushing forward. If you’re feeling down about not being progressed, I promise your time will come. Keep working on what you can control and don’t give up.
Good luck to everyone for the rest of this cycle. I hope it works out for us all 🤞
Skadden was always my dream firm, so when I got rejected, it hurt, especially because I put so much effort into my application. I was really disappointed, but as this is my first cycle, I made it a goal to stay as positive as possible regardless of any news I receive from firms.
The day after my Skadden rejection, I had an AC at Osborne Clarke. That’s how brutal this process can be. Regardless, I picked myself up, continued to prepare, and it ended up going very well.
This process can be incredibly hard and draining, but I’ve found that trying to stay positive where possible really does help. You genuinely never know what will happen if you keep believing in yourself and pushing forward. If you’re feeling down about not being progressed, I promise your time will come. Keep working on what you can control and don’t give up.
Good luck to everyone for the rest of this cycle. I hope it works out for us all 🤞
Haven’t worked on the recruitment side but this is how I see it, hope I make sense! For cappfinity, I think they use similar scoring to amberjack but we just don’t see the scores.
So in the below example in a cappfinity report I’d just be told my strengths = applied intellect and digital mindset, and my weakness = grit. Someone else could get the exact same strengths and weaknesses even if they scored 9 in their top two and 7 in their lowest.
So it doesn’t really matter what your strengths/weaknesses are, they use our scores to make decisions and unfortunately we don’t get told these 😭
Omg, I went back to check: I got one AC invite 23:58 last year. Also a US firm 😳
I have heard from others that they don't really use it pre-2nd stage. It automatically tells them whether you have passed the cognitive portion of the test (like the HL proof reading section), then the AI looks at each inputted set of answers and matches it as best as possible with inputted model answers the firm gives it. Even then, this data isn't reviewed until post 2nd stage when it is reviewed by a person who would rather look at your VI questions to achieve the same impression. I also suspect that it's a cappfinity thing, owing to the same exact questions on different firms 1st stage SJT. The firms outsource it to cappfinity who then do the BTS processing. It would make sense consider most GR aren't massive.
Thank you! I applied on 15th September
awaiting this Latham PFO.... I started laughing in the VI cause I was so shocked by the questions 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I spoke with someone at Mills & Reeve and they said that you’re given points based on your responses. E.g. for ranking questions you need to get the most likely and least likely correct to get the points.
Not sure if this is also the case for other firms but I thought this may provide some insight.
Goodwin won’t reply till next yr
Follow up did you get the email that they will respond in the next two weeks?
Side note but do you reckon it’s too late to apply if they’ve already started giving these out?
Hi, I had an interview yesterday and got asked follow ups on just under half of my responses. Is this a bad sign? To me it seemed like my initial answers were incomplete hence the probing interview style so I feel like a rejection may be incoming
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