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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I'd apply for Spring. I don't think your chances will be any different whether you applied to either programme.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I have known firms to have a lower benchmark than this - lowest I have heard/seen is the 17th percentile A percentile doesn't necessarily explain a lot, unfortunately. All it says is how you compare against the norm group you have been assessed against. But this norm group could be anything...
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Can you link this back to you and why it is important to you or how you will benefit as a trainee?
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Each question is 2000 characters with spaces. How do you feel your skills and attributes would suit a legal career at AG? What makes AG stand out from other commercial law firms? Tell us about a recent business deal in the press that has captured your interest? How might this impact AG and...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    Pre Employment Checks

    I’ll be honest about this - not knowing when something started or ended is not ideal. You would need to explain to the verification process people why you put down the dates you did if you weren’t sure which dates they were and why both the start and end date were incorrect. You would also need...
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    Pre Employment Checks

    Have you secured a role with this information?
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Forum acronym that stands for “please f**k off” - a very lighthearted way of saying you have been told by a law firm that you have been unsuccessful.
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    Where should a law firm open its next office?

    In some cases, these jurisdictions are often serviced reasonably well from other locations, namely the US or even Spain/Portugal and the U.K, particularly if they have a best friends network with a local firm. Given US and English law typically govern many international deals, you don’t...
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    CMS 2022 Application Help

    I tend to advise that you don’t need to include what CMS is already doing, it should be more focused on your opinions on what firms should do. Plenty of people do take the approach you have done though.
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    This shows how the definition of “rolling recruitment” can be interpreted in different ways. Applications can be reviewed on a rolling basis but that does not necessarily mean that people are hired on a rolling basis.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Could you contact the test provider rather than the firm?
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Seen a whole host of things included in this question. I would just include anything you think is relevant and that you haven’t had a chance to demonstrate elsewhere in the application.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    There could be an issue where they can’t make a note of the error. If they can’t change it in the app, then they might not be able to store the information of the error either. The tone of the email isn’t great but they are probably just putting it as factually as possible to you, and that...
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    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    We set our standards high, and we trust our people to hold themselves accountable for meeting other people's expectations. Describe a time when you had to drop everything and really 'raise your game' in order to keep a promise you had made to someone else. How did you manage both this and your...
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Have you done the test before for CC in another recruitment round?
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    What do they mean by preference?
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    gift for HR / company providing vs?

    There is absolutely no need to do this - the vast majority of vac schemers wouldn't do it. Some do though - if you do, really a card is sufficient, there doesn't need to be a gift with it. If you do go with a gift, give something that is small, low value (e.g. less than £20) and sharable in the...
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    Skadden VC application - how to handle questions geared toward university graduates?

    You can use examples from your time at university. They basically want to see you kept yourself busy and sought responsibilities/commitments, and they know that does become more difficult once you are working (compared to uni). Extracurriculars can run into the work place though. For instance...
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I suspect the “reasonable” maybe the reason here. The firm maybe look for high performers in at least one category.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You don’t need to connect it to any experience, the word count doesn’t really allow you to do this adequately.
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