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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Not overwhelmingly, but it is a disproportionate amount. Only about 28-30% of UK Oxbridge students have been privately educated, but this is over four times the national average.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You should request a reasonable adjustment. If this is relevant to your circumstances, I would expect that someone with forms of autism would be exempt from “recognise the emotion” type assessments. It is slightly different with the verbal comprehension assessment, but it’s likely you would get...
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It’s a possibility - you could contact the London office to see if they could help. Another thing to try is calling their switchboard (general firm number on their website) to see if they can direct you to the best person to speak to.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I would stress I don’t think this is necessarily evidence of a process being unfair or lacking thoroughness. One person can just do their hard work in other ways and then focus (and fixate) or aligning with that one application they are making. They just get their match right from the outset...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    But you did ask when will they get to the point that they don’t need it. I don’t think that will ever happen - ED&I is something that will constantly be evolving as demographics of organisation change. Please don’t make the assumption that I don’t have or have not had lived experience. There is...
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Of course there will always be Oxbridge representation in law firms. That in itself is needed for the same reason that recruiting beyond Oxbridge is important. Maybe every organisation “needs” ED&I for one reason or another. Some may not agree with that statement and I am obviously biased as it...
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Both TfL and the NHS invest incredibly heavily into ED&I, both with money and also resource. There will be hundreds of people across the NHS working in ED&I roles and at least seven at TfL.
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Completely this. I think many would be surprised as to how often clients ask for evidence of ED&I practices or policies in pitch documents or presentations, and that firms can often lose pitches because they don’t have the evidence their competitors do.
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    This is over estimating people’s knowledge of people’s educational background, whether a client or a colleague in a law firm. The idea that non Oxbridge trainee/lawyers don’t go to meetings because clients expect them to be from certain universities just doesn’t align with what happens in reality.
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    We removed the post as it breached TCLA’s terms and rules, so we would rather it wasn’t repeated.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    I don’t think it has been cut off - sometimes they want to find out about your interest rather than how you think it aligns with the firm.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It takes a while for firms to be allocated their applicants, hence the slightly longer timeframes.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I think it depends on the firm. One firm may value leadership over resilience while it could easily be the other way around. A general list of qualities though (in no particular order): Self awareness A drive to learn Determination Adaptability An interest in the firm’s work Collaboration...
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I think there are many ways you can approach this and no one way is the right way. The first thing is to set how you have decided the criteria to differentiate them by. That could be a whole host of things: Practice areas Sector focus Strategy (and then broken down into a whole range of sub...
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Not primarily through VS - the firm has made a number of hires through to direct TC process for 2025.
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I think they would have offered the half VS if that was an option. But half schemes are very rare - you won’t be able to miss the first week because of all the necessary induction process, so you’d have to miss the second half of the earlier scheme if that was to happen. But I would expect most...
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    There maybe a conversion interview or other assessments as part of the vacation scheme. For some firms you may need to do an assessment centre though - it really depends on how aligned the two recruitment processes are.
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Consulting can actually be much more competitive than law! It is the most popular career for graduates to go into. It will vary a lot based on the organisation and the area of consultancy, but comparing the sectors as a whole, Consulting is much more competitive.
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - all varies from firm to firm. These things are not standardised.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    “Bragging” about a family member getting you a job is really weird in my opinion. Basically completely diminishes your abilities and sets you up for people thinking you are most likely not going to be rubbish at the job. How anyone can think this is something to brag about is beyond me 😂 The...
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