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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - they won’t really care. The main thing will be passing the SQE first time, and ideally doing so reasonably well (a higher score will never be a bad thing).
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You will just need to explain this for the job rather than the training period. So if you are applying for a training contract, explain either the visa you will be working on and the dates you will have that visa for. If you won’t have a visa and need sponsorship then explain this instead.
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    No - there is no need to describe it further if it’s a standard three year LLB and you have put your years to-and-from and your degree title.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    Application support resources

    Check your university careers service as a first step. You might find others on here who are happy to mutually review applications for you too - have seen small groups form in previous cycles where they catch up regularly to review each others applications. If you do apply next year, so think...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Chambers would have got those stats from the firm - so I would take it as accurate. Many people won’t want to work at the firm and if they are not as active on campus/advertising online as other firms, they will get fewer applications.
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    2nd Year Non-Law Vac Scheme Applications

    Check what you are eligible for with each firm, as different firms will have different deadlines for non-law students Vs law students. For some firms you will need to apply to vacation schemes this year, but for others they will direct you to schemes during your final year instead.
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    It might be that the 3rd was given at the start of the recruitment cycle when all the publications coordinate getting deadlines from firms, and then the firm has changed it but hasn’t updated the publications/legal websites.
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I wouldn’t include anything already covered by your educations section (such as your undergraduate degree). If you have any formal qualifications outside of your degree or are a member of any business associations/regulators, then you can include it here. I would expect this question to be...
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I’d stress it doesn’t quite work like this. In a situation where they didn’t want to make offers, they would either invite more people to interview or would just take fewer vacation schemers. Generally firms will work on the basis of bringing somewhere between 2-4 candidates per vax scheme...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I think you can reference the upcoming vacation scheme and that you hope to get exposure to M&A work given the firm’s practice areas, but you can’t really claim any experience within the scheme until you have done it.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Definitely agree with this - they want you to focus on the difficulties in achieving the proudest achievement. Some proudest achievements are sometimes things that are fairly easy to obtain/complete, so it’s important to pick something that was challenging/difficult for this particular question.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    How can TCLA improve?

    I’ll pass the feedback on to Jaysen. Would be also good for the “have you heard back from” type posts too.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    How can TCLA improve?

    You can do this with new threads rather than individual posts. You can see the functionality here on the right hand tab:
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    The offers letters/certificates are likely to be sufficient.
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    They are very used to contacting international companies. As it’s all done via email, it tends to be fairly straight forward. In instances where references are not provided by the company they may seek other forms of proof from you (eg employment contracts, proof of salary etc).
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I personally recommend doing this - tackling head on any concerns as to how you have developed since the last application/recruitment process I think shows self-awareness reflection and pursuit of development, all great things to demonstrate in an application no matter when you are applying.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    I would go with the work experiences that you feel show the most transferable skills or personal development - they don’t have to be the most relevant or most recent. I’d caveat that slightly with the fact that if it is for a TC, Linklaters typically want to see a certain level of legal work...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    No - I don’t think you have to talk about something commercial. However, you don’t have to provide examples of you stepping out of your comfort zone - they question is not asking you to demonstrate your abilities. Instead I would focus more on presenting the topic rather than presenting...
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Unfortunately this is a low score. Percentiles work on the basis of 1-99 with 99 behind the highest score.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2023-4

    Hi - I think this is the case that you can only add two entries to your work experience. It’s been mentioned for the last couple of years on the forum.
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