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17 December 2025
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm (UK)
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Join Isabel Elsey, Legal Recruitment Manager at BCLP, for a live Q&A session. Get details on secondments, innovation, growth areas, and everything else you’ve wanted to ask about life at BCLP!
Hi everyone,
As they are so close to each other, what could be the main difference between these two questions?
1-Please explain how this mentoring scheme would help you with your future legal career aspirations?
2- Please tell us why you wish to participate in a Mentoring Scheme with us...
I agree with that. I was immediately eliminated from ones which I believe I sent the best applications for less competitive firms, on the other hand, I made progress with others (according to me I was less competitive application form-wise and late in terms of submitting). Quite...
I guess they said no to me as I am not an undergraduate right now. So they decided to withdraw me, but if I am still interested in starting in 2023 then I was asked to reply to them. As a result I assumed I will be considered for a TC only, but not eligible for a Summer VS. I am a bit confused...
Received another email from Reed Smith that if I am interested in direct TC rather than Summer VS (as this one more geared towards undergrads according to their email).
I received an email from Gateley Legal today, and it was an Interactive Assessment invitation that includes SJT, verbal and numerical questions in itself together with a video interview at the end attached. Btw, I applied on February 7.
Hopes were dwindling. After Dentons (post-WG), Eversheds (post-app) and Pinsent Masons (post-app) rejections, here we go! TLT Manchester has also flown out of my hands:-( (Despite attending their all events so far, filling out the longest application form I have ever seen, taking me to respond...
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