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17 December 2025
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Join Isabel Elsey, Legal Recruitment Manager at BCLP, for a live Q&A session. Get details on secondments, innovation, growth areas, and everything else you’ve wanted to ask about life at BCLP!
Hi @Jessica Booker, do TC offers post VS generally come in drips and drabs or all at once?
I know two friends who got calls with offers yesterday and I haven’t heard. Apparently they only phone successful candidates so guess I haven’t converted?
That makes sense, thanks Jessica.
As a follow on to that (and I suppose this is firm dependent), what kind of standard of work is expected from a vacation scheme student? We were assessed on three “trainee level tasks”, but I presume they don’t expect perfection on these? I know I made a couple...
When a firm says that a performance on a VS will be looked at “holistically”, what exactly is meant by that?
Is it that if you’ve bombed in something, it won’t necessarily be fatal to your chances? Or just everything is taken into consideration and you need to perform well consistently?
I have my first VS coming up on Monday. I've worked hard for this and have tried to do as much preparation as I can.
I've read quite a few articles on how to stand out/how to do well on a VS, but this has led me to become curious about the other side of the coin. So, what are the common...
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