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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Unfortunately no one can determine this for you. Your chances will be determined by how you perform in the assessments, not by how many people are involved in the process.typically there will be 2-3 candidates for every vacancy at the final stage, but if the firm needed to interview more...
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I would give the level of fluency you are at within that language both from a speaking and writing perspective.
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I think this will be fine. I wouldn’t worry about it being more specific to one practice area.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I don’t think you can prepare for group exercises. Just go in with a willingness to collaborate with everyone else (don’t dominate proceedings), and try to be flexible/adaptable in your thinking and approach. Make sure you get your ideas forward, get consensus for those ideas from your group...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Looking at their Legal 500 or Chambers profile (the “client” version, not the student version), can be helpful in finding out about individual matters. There may lack detail about those matters, but then further research into the client or the news story can often pick up different articles that...
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    You can do, but they most likely will only take the first one. No harm in sending it anyway, just in case though
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - I suspect there is either a technical or human fault in utilising a candidate database, whether that be something like Vantage or their own data they have collected. If you attended multiple events with them, it could easily be that they have your email on their database multiples times...
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    Confused if I should continue or not for a TC is the question!

    There are no time constraints on your law degree. The LPC will be valid until 2032 - however most firms will be moving to the SQE this year, so be prepared that although your LPC is still valid, you may have to do the SQE2 assessments anyway. Reapplying will depend on each firm’s policy. Most...
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    I would take it that they are recruiting for a different intake - eg if last year the vacancy was for 2026 and for this year it is 2027, that is fine.
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Capitalisation is only needed if it is in a heading like a job title in a work experience entry: Summer Vacation Scheme - Joe Bloggs LLP (July 2023) But not if you are writing it generally like: As a vacation scheme student at Joe Bloggs LLP, I learnt more about the firm’s work in the finance...
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    I don’t think this is going to be an issue.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    As you have got another offer, I think it is fine for you to do this. Explain to them this is the only reason why you are asking for an update so soon, because you’d be keen to understand whether there is a possibility to progress with them before confirming to the firm you have an offer with...
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I would count day one as the day you received the email, and then add on six more days from that up until 23.59 just to be safe. You probably could still access the assessment after then, but this just gives you the least riskiest approach when it comes to interpreting the timeline
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I don’t know the firm, but understand the policy more generally. It’s difficult to measure what is a significant development, as it’s not measured by one thing. However, I think you as a candidate have to feel you are a very different candidate now compared to the last time you applied through...
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It depends if it is relevant to your application or not. I think it is fine to mention it if it is, but at the same time it wouldn’t need to be something you definitely mention.
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Contact them if you are not sure whether you can apply.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    They may not have the ability to update you as candidates. Mergers are complicated and approval for what you can/can’t say externally typically comes from the highest of levels. I am not surprised to hear about the radio silence at all - it is very common when mergers/acquisitions within law...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Maybe contact them and see if they can allow a second application given you were likely straight rejected for the VS?
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    There is no need for significant backstory in competency questions whether CV blind or not. They will be far more interested in what this means for you now and your career ahead rather than the detail of what you have done in the past.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Are you a penultimate year undergraduate? One of the most common reasons people will be unsuccessful is because they are not eligible for the programme.

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