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  1. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    You can’t work full time and study full time. At best one of them will need to be part time and even then it will be tough going. Most people top up the GDL to an LLM and then apply for PG funding.
  2. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    If you are forcing it in for the sake of it, then don’t. If it’s naturally happened as you present your answer then this won’t be an issue
  3. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Be glad it was only 6 years.... my last Vero check was 10, and 7 years of that was self-employment.... Trying to get references when you are self-employed is hilarious - one client said they had no record of me (so had to show the bank payments to say otherwise 🤣 )
  4. TCLA Community Assistant

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    It is easy to apply (anyone can apply for a role) but how easy it is to secure such a transger is a different matter. It is really going to depend on your experience within your home jurisdiction and how in demand that experience is within the new country. Transfers typically happen because they...
  5. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    You will have to provide a point of contact for each employer.
  6. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    University societies are not employment so wouldn’t be checked. Anything that is employment will be though (and as throughly as can be). Employment references are dates employed, job title and that you weren’t found to have committed anything related to misconduct.
  7. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    It will be the 91st percentile rather than a percentage. That’s likely to be above their usual benchmark, and comfortably so.
  8. TCLA Community Assistant

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    Ah ok - look at the Youth Mobility visa I linked above as an alternative.
  9. TCLA Community Assistant

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    You can’t pay for your own skilled worker visa. It has to be paid for by the employer. You could apply for your post-graduate visa that would give you two years to work in the U.K. though. It won’t necessarily help for a TC, but would help for VS applications, which then may convert to a TC...
  10. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Definitely overthinking it - would only be an issue if they weren’t laughing and looking pretty much like this: While you were looking like this: laughing with colleagues is a necessity for the job from time to time. I suspect it came across as a positive.
  11. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Can often be needed for vacation schemes too unfortunately!
  12. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    There have been a flurry of TC offers from CC to TCLA members of late, that I may have missed this one. It is such great news for everyone, but in case I did miss this, just a quick post to say congratulations and here is the obligatory GIF I send for TC offers 🤣
  13. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Everyone does this - so I really wouldn’t worry. Those that don’t might be a little over confident!
  14. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Congratulations! This is fantastic news
  15. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Amazing news - congratulations
  16. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    No - you are on hold. You could be invited if they have enough candidates withdraw from the recruitment process. That is a possibility but at the same time might not happen either.
  17. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    No - shouldn’t be an issue at all. You could choose to do it in either intake if you really wanted to, although with the SQE, you may not want to have too much of a gap between the GDL and your SQE prep course.
  18. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    On that information alone, yes you should apply. But I don’t think that will be deciding factors in an application.
  19. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Yes, call them first thing tomorrow.
  20. TCLA Community Assistant

    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

    Highly unlikely - would have to be an exceptionally strange set of circumstances for this to happen. The worst I have seen is two people with the same name both being invited to the next recruitment stage or the wrong person (but with the same name as the right person) being invited. But even...

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