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Recent content by frog

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    BBC Solicitor Apprenticeship

    Interested if anyone else applied to this? I got an email saying they had extended the deadline and wondered if this was due to them not getting as many applicants as they had hoped? Possibly because of the slightly unusual entry requirements which may have limited the number of people who qualify?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    unsurprisingly another pfo from OC :(
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    What letter do you think they are up to? I might have a long wait ahead 😂
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    seeing the OC responses coming in & refreshing my emails like
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    From what I have seen there is only one person on their GR team so could just be a case of them getting many more applications towards the deadline and getting swamped Edit: Last year I applied for a direct TC on the deadline (I think?) and heard back about a month and a half later and from how...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Nope! What date did you apply? I sent mine 26th Jan so pretty close to deadline
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    What do we think our chances of hearing back from OC this week are?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Sorry if it has been asked recently (finding it hard to keep up to date on this forum at the moment and good to have some time away!) but has anyone heard back from: Irwin Mitchell (BLS) Osborne Clarke Bates Wells All for London offices. Thanks and hope everyone is doing good right now!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Yeah, I applied on the deadline so I am expecting a bit of a wait but surprised no one has heard back yet! Although I have just seen on the email it says we will hear by March 😮
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Anyone heard anything from Irwin Mitchell?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    My HSF rejection also got me quite down because I spent a long time researching and writing my answers, had it checked over and felt like it was one of my stronger applications! You are right, this forum is really comforting in knowing you are not alone in the process. Hope you are doing ok!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Last summer I applied for a direct TC at Bates Wells with very little knowledge about how to write successful rejections (did things like bullet pointed work experience etc.) and unsurprisingly I got rejected. This year I want to reapply for the VS but I'm worried because I don't have anything...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    PFO from HSF for the summer vac :(
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Sorry I don't have an answer to your qu, but did you get your results after completing the test?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Thank you so much!

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