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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Your CV has most likely be shared with the hiring team and they are considering your candidacy against other candidates.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    What type of people - recruiters or fee earners?
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    I don’t know the details of the accompanying email unfortunately.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You won’t be in trouble, but unless you are very confident it will meet with standards (it isn’t just legal services - there are specific requirements and thresholds you need to meet within the experience), I wouldn’t claim something is QWE unless you are 100% confident it will be and will be...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Tagging in @Jaysen or @Erin who will be able to provide you with more detail.
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    If you do it, make sure they are very short key words rather when what you would say out loud. Otherwise you will read it like it’s a script or speech and this can come across as disingenuous.
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    For me this would be the last 12 months.
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Do what works for you - either approach is fine and I have seen both work incredibly well (and in some cases both not so well).
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Apply the criteria you think is most relevant, rather than a standard set of criteria. This is your opportunity to stand out of the crowd with your answer - there are lots of different ways to determine the answer (which is why they have set the question) - locations, practice areas, client...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    BCLP assessment centre

    A marking up exercise is usually an attention to detail task. You’ll be given a document and asked to review it and make any changes to improve the writing style, accuracy and correct any errors (these might not just be spellings but things like wrong dates/names/time periods/fomatting (eg...
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I wouldn’t just mention firms with a location to the one you are applying to - it will need to be a bit more refined than that. Firstly, work out how you are going to categorise them as competitors - there are many different measures you could use (location being one), but you could look at...
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I am sure they would. You could include this detail in the cover letter as a footnote.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Not a problem at all to talk about this topic. One of my early interviews for a law firm I talked about being a condom fairy at university, and that was a very long time ago when things were a lot more traditional, and it really wasn’t an issue back then! If you want to extra cautious though...
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I would just take it that the only deadline is from when you access the link. I would try to do the interview in the next week though if you can.
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    For the first question, focus on the things that are not on your application form - it’s isn’t worthwhile repeating information already presented, it’s about demonstrating the things about your experiences or skill set that might not fit comfortably/easily into an application form but are a key...
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    Hi everyone

    Wow - that’s a long application form! I would say to aim for 250 per question as this will mean the total application is no more than 2500 words in total. If you felt one answer could be a little shorter and one a little longer, you could balance it out this way, but I’d aim for no more than...
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    The term typically means assessing skills required for the job (team work, organisational skills etc) Howwver, I have seen career motivation and commercial awareness be deemed competencies, as you technically need them for the job too. Therefore, it is not impossible that a motivational...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - standards will be the same for the first assessment as it will be for the last
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Unlikely from my experience, but even if you did I wouldn't rely on it.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You can use bullet points if you can format the text box with them properly (like you can do on this forum). But if you can’t, I would use full sentences, because as you have suggested it just doesn’t look clear/right otherwise in a text box you can’t format.

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