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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5
You may have to - you'll need to check your employment contract terms, but it is a fairly standard clause that other forms of employment or things like being a director/trustee of a business/organisation have to be declared. I'd check your employment contract before you decide your application...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #580
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5
Will taking time off work be problematic/will you have to declare alternative employment to your current employer (and if so, could that be a problem for you)?- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #577
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
It is a good idea to connect it back to your interest or experiences, but I don’t think you have to leverage one particular potential matter you could face. For many secondments, you tend to pick up quite a variety of work while working in house, and so seeming like you are very focused on one...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #602
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
This does not need to be BCLP-specific (or even law firm-specific). I think they are asking a really open question like this on purpose. It is open to a lot of interpretation and direction in how someone describes this or the aspects they focus on. Ultimately, people complete whole degrees on...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #573
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
This is a possibility with some firms and you can at least ask. However, some firms will have wanted you to factor this into which scheme you applied to and therefore may not be able to move your programme and you may just need to turn their offer down. Other firms have found ways around the...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #572
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
You might not be able to add future dates to some application systems - it may create an error where typically they are only asking for past experiences. However, this may only be the case with some systems. If you can add future dates, then include it as an entry but I would put very little...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #562
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Please can you PM me with details of the account who contacted you and any screenshots of the PM you have been sent. Thank you in advance!- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #559
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5
Just to add to @Kay Aston ’s very useful post, disclosing the mitigating circumstances will be needed where you won’t have any grades for one year. I wouldn’t worry about this though - you can just say due to ill health generally (rather than disclosing mental health) you and the university...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #570
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
Please can you (or anyone else) let us know if you have been contacted about this via the forums or private messages.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #543
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I wouldn't provide details of your work experience in a cover letter. Your cover letter should focus more on your motivations and highlight a small number of your key strengths rather than detailing what you have done in the past. You don't have to use all 250 words for your work experience if...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #529
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Urgent advice needed – should I apply for the SQE or LPC this September?
This is only during the transitionary period to ensure that people who have already invested in the LPC are not completely disadvantaged and have an opportunity to qualify via the SQE instead.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #7
- Forum: Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE) Forum
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
I would contact the firm to check.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #518
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
It wouldn't be a barrier to not being considered, but I would expect a lot more goes into the decision to secure an AC than just the assessment score.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #517
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Vac Schemes (winter/summer) or Training contract
My advice to most people is to apply for vacation schemes in the first instance, where you can because they are a great way for you to work out whether it is a place you want to work at before committing a number of years with a firm you might not be suited to. However, there will be instances...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #3
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!
It is a possibility.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #5,644
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!
It is tricky to know the exact benchmark the firm would have - I have known them to be as low as the 17th percentile for some firms but as high as 67/68th percentile for other firms. It could easily be the case where you are around the middle of these to extremes, that you could have done...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #5,642
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
If there is an option to format bullet points on the application form (rather than copying them in), then you can use them. If there isn’t, I’d generally recommend paragraphs but is a super concise format rather than trying to connect every sentences up like it is a story/competency answer.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #492
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!
Is your percentile for an actual assessment or is this a practice test?- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #5,640
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Apply to for a TC or Vac Scheme?
I suspect it should be a mixture of both. Where you can, apply to vacation schemes. It’s a good opportunity to build up your commercial work experience and find out if the firm is right for you too. There will also be some firms that recruit heavily or exclusively from vacation schemes. But...- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #2
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2024-5
Possibly (which is why some firms will potentially allow you to do their TC even if you can’t do the apprenticeship). But the firm isn’t paying for the apprenticeship anyway so the idea of sponsorship isn’t really there whichever way it is.- TCLA Community Assistant
- Post #555
- Forum: Applications Discussion