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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TC offer dilemma

    Is the 2 weeks to return your signed formal documents with the offer or is this just a verbal offer at this stage? Penalties - you will need to be in a position to pay back any investment into your training and that could be fairly immediately. What can be difficult is if the firm is paying for...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    If this is for a TC/VS, I’d generally include all module grades
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    CVs can be two pages long.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Yes - you can do this, many thousands of applications are either withdrawn or not progressed from a candidate's perspective each year.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    You can accept the role and renege closer to the time - you won't really be committed to anything until you start the onboarding process for the apprenticeship programme (e.g. when you have to start filling out forms with the training provider).
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    The informal work shadowing definitely can be. If there isn’t a dedicated section for careers events, then I would consider grouping your open days together in one entry.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    What type of test is it?
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    When is the graduate apprenticeship due to start?
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5

    Amazing news! Congratulations
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    The first thing is to stress you shouldn’t be pressurised into making a decision unless the role is starting soon. Do speak to the employer to see if they can give you more time to consider the offer if you are feeling pressurised to make a decision (even if it’s just until Monday). Balancing...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    I wouldn't necessarily raise it in the interview and instead raise it should you get an offer. If you are asked about it at interview, you can state that you are aware there may be issues given your term dates but that you would look to liaise with your university and the firm to ensure you are...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    You will be doing the same assessments, but there will be some difference in expectations as to what you may or may not know. This is not just about academics. The same goes for work experience. If you have no legal work experience, the expectations of what you might know would be very...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    It’s going to be an advantage but there will be plenty of other elements that firms are looking for beyond academics that mean someone with exceptionally academics could still be unsuccessful.
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    If current trainees got 2.1s, you clearly don’t need a first!
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    It gets even more complicated as one firm may assess something like assumptions questions more heavily, and another firm may not even have assumption questions, or if they do put less weighting on them! But you never know this detail so it’s impossible to know whether you might be better or...
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    They are generally not transparent about this as it actually means very little without explaining everything about the test, which is pretty complicated - I had to take a 4 day course and an exam to be able to understand how to administer these tests! In many ways it is just easier to not...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    It will vary between firms - I have seen everything from the 17th percentile to the 65th for the WG. The issue is they although the Watson Glaser is a standard set of questions (WG is effectively a copyrighted brand), how the answers are assessed can be very different between firms, so you...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    38th percentile does not mean that 62% of people get through the process. It could easily be a case the a 38th percentile is filtering out 50-75% of candidates.
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    You don’t need to overthink/worry about this - just contacting them with the details you have outlined here is fine. I would start by reminding them of your connection eg “Thank you for your time back in X when we spoke about Y” And then outline a brief update on your application progression...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    No - it really won’t matter which one you choose.

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