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Welcome! Introduce yourself here :)
Welcome to the forum Matt. Considering the list of firms you’ve already interviewed at, it looks like you’re well on your way. Looking forward to seeing how you get on!- Jaysen
- Post #76
- Forum: TCLA General News
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Commercial Awareness Update - August 2019
Hi everyone, Welcome to the next commercial news update. Happy reading! Commercial News Update – Wednesday, 28 August 2019 Topics covered this week: Record Foreign Investment in British Tech Start-Ups (by @ELA) Denmark’s Jyske Bank Announces Negative Interest Rates (by @Sairah) US Toy...- Jaysen
- Post #6
- Forum: Commercial Awareness Discussion
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Application question - experiences/commercially focused
I'd concentrate on how they make you a commercially-focused solicitor of the future. That can encompass a variety of things though - from understanding the needs of clients to supporting the law firm as a business. When reading your answer, it should be evident that you understand what...- Jaysen
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- Forum: Applications Discussion
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TCLA's Crash Course - We're running our first event!
As you may have already seen via LinkedIn/email: We’re running our first event, an intensive one-day training session to help you guys secure training contracts. It’s not just us who will be teaching. We’ve brought together some super talented people across the profession to teach you about...- Jaysen
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- Forum: TCLA General News
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Commercial Awareness Update - August 2019
Hi everyone! Welcome to this week's commercial news update. Happy reading! Commercial News Update: 21 August 2019 The topics covered this week are: Hong Kong Billionaire Li Ka-Shing to Buy Greene King (by @LJ) Competition in the Media Industry (by @Sara Moon) Streaming Battles: Apple TV+’s...- Jaysen
- Post #5
- Forum: Commercial Awareness Discussion
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Law Careers.Net TC Deadlines
Hi Asmee - that is a bit weird the information has changed. It's probably worth giving the firm a quick call to check.- Jaysen
- Post #2
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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BCLP Partner Interview
Hey Arun - A recent candidate shared this about her final partner interview with BCLP for a TC: 'The trainees + lawyers I knew there told me to prep the standard why law, why BCLP, why me etc because they believed getting to the final partner interview was pretty much a done deal However my...- Jaysen
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- Forum: Interviews Discussion
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Book recommendations?
Sounds interesting, I will give this a read!- Jaysen
- Post #25
- Forum: General Discussion
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Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020
Yep makes sense. Just to be clear, it's not passive aggressive to send an email to chase up, it's more that candidates sometimes phrase an email in that way.- Jaysen
- Post #255
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Allen & Overy app - 2018/19
It has been a while since I've done an SJT so others may be better able to help. I'd say do a little practice just so you can get used to the format/timing, although I'm not sure how good the practice tests are on this (I think I recall Shearman & Sterling recently sharing one on their LinkedIn...- Jaysen
- Post #34
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020
Completely agree with Jess. I never did it and didn't know others were doing it at the time, but it's completely up to you. I'd also echo keeping it short and to the point with any email you send to a firm. I quite often get candidates messaging to ask if their email is OK before sending. Most...- Jaysen
- Post #248
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Allen & Overy app - 2018/19
The main thing I’d flag up - if you’re going to tailor to A&O in that way (or in other app forms where the question doesn’t ask for it), try to make the link natural and properly tailored to the firm. It doesn’t like great if you have a commercial issue and say something like: ‘and this applies...- Jaysen
- Post #30
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Allen & Overy app - 2018/19
Yep that’s exactly what I’d recommend!- Jaysen
- Post #29
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Allen & Overy app - 2018/19
No worries - it's a bit of a tricky one now as there's no obvious place to link to A&O in the application form.- Jaysen
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- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Allen & Overy app - 2018/19
They've taken out the first question from Abstruser's list for 2018/19, the rest are the same.- Jaysen
- Post #24
- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Technical issues
Hi All, We are currently experiencing some technical problems, which has caused a few messages that were sent in the past couple of hours to vanish. You might also see the message 'this connection is not private'. This was caused by upgrading our hosting package and should take less than 24...- Jaysen
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- Forum: TCLA General News
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Book recommendations?
I recently read Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. I'd really recommend it, it's now one of my favourite books.- Jaysen
- Post #22
- Forum: General Discussion
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Government Legal Department Trainee Scheme AC
And another very kind future trainee: "It will be divided into two parts; a written exercise and an interview. You will need to do less preparation for the written exercise as it designed to test your ability to analyse the materials given to you during the assessment rather than any...- Jaysen
- Post #3
- Forum: Interviews Discussion
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Government Legal Department Trainee Scheme AC
Managed to find a future trainee at the GLD, he passed on this advice: 'The assessment centre when I did it (2018) was comprised of two parts. The written exercise had various documents (fake newspaper cuttings, a fake draft bill) and some questions posed by a minister. The main skills tested...- Jaysen
- Post #2
- Forum: Interviews Discussion
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Accutrainee Interview
Here you go: “In terms of the assessment day, they usually start with the presentation and, since that's the prepared piece, if you can nail that it will make a really good first impression. From memory it's the interview next. This will either be with just Susan Cooper or with Susan and...- Jaysen
- Post #3
- Forum: Interviews Discussion