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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Hi @John Doe 555 333 I will flag this to the team but you may also want to contact the following email address:
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    To me this is anything over 65%. Probably worthwhile asking the firm directly though if you have a chance to attend a careers fair they are attending or you could ask via email.
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    As it’s typically for a new intake (and they typically work on an academic calendar year) I think this would be fine.
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    If you are applying to firms who focus on corporate/finance, then also consider ESG (including the growing measurement and transparency of it) and also how technology is impacting the financial sector - for instance cryptocurrencies and the like. Regulation and it’s trends is also something to...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It’s the weekend and a bank holiday. I wouldn’t expect anything until at least the next working day (tomorrow, or possibly even Wednesday).
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I would expect that you would have to wait the full 12 months unfortunately.
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    The deal needs to be connected back to your interests/motivations. Therefore even if it wasn’t something the London office had done, it really needs explaining why this is relevant to your career in London with the firm. Age of deal becomes less of an issue - I think anything in the last three...
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

    White & Case Application Form

    I’d put it in the careers event section - the section has really been created for things like this, and means you can focus your work experience on things where you have generally had to put more input/effort into them.
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    1) yes - you can choose which entries to prioritise 2) I don’t think there is a set answer to this. It will depend on your other experiences and also the depth/length of other answers. I’d just try to keep it as focused as possible - you don’t want to lose your reader because it’s a bit of a...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    1) yes, you can include this. 2) yes, you’ll need to wait a full 12 months before reapplying - if you don’t your application is likely to be automatically rejected and then you could find you’d need to wait another 12 months to reapply again.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I wouldn’t worry about this - if it’s a formatting thing it will happen in all applications.
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It might do - but for the task question, I think it typically means you end up describing less steps/factors you could/should consider, and so would question whether it adds value to your answer.
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    From looking at apps that have done this, it typically uses more of the word count because you have to describe the scenario rather than just describe how you’d deal with this specific situation, so if you were to do this I think it need to be super concise to be able to answer this question...
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    I don’t think there is one approach to this. You don’t have to necessarily start with why law. But I would try to weave in a bit of why commercial law, but that could come across quite naturally when you describe why HSF anyway (really depends on your reasons for the firm). The question is...
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    It would technically fall into an “activity” definition (which is pretty broad). I would personally not go into much detail though and try to ensure there is evidence of your extra curriculars/ positions of responsibility/achievements in this section rather than focus on open days/insight...
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    That is fine - you can put it as “Further to the XXXX partnership mentioned earlier” for conciseness if that helps!
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Definitely put the name in my opinion. The vagueness of “city law firm” can be a little off putting, just where effectively you are making the recruiter have to do more work to find out which firm you are talking about (eg making them have to go back to your work experience section to check).
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA General Discussion Thread 2022-23

    You will have to play careful with this sometimes employment teams are those helping to implement mass redundancies across businesses. It will depend on what the typical client for the firm is - does it deal with individuals or corporations? I think its probably the use of interaction that...
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Yes, that’s something some firms do on occasions that they need to.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2022-23

    Technically, Forage dates you shouldn’t list them as work experience (although plenty of people do). But grouping them as you have mentioned sounds sensible if you do include them in your work experience section.

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