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  1. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Has it changed back for everyone?
  2. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Yeah would have expected an automated email. Maybe they will send one later today
  3. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Got a rejection. Haven’t got an email yet but checked my application status and it says unsuccessful so may be worth checking
  4. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Looks like another week without hearing anything
  5. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Only person I’ve seen. Must have taken on very few people after the video interview
  6. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Nothing yet. It’s been so long
  7. J

    Baker McKenzie

    It’s fair enough that people are extremely anxious to know their results, and nobody wants to hear from someone else that it’s a rejection when there has been no official word. But yes, this anxiety is nothing compared to a career in law. 12 hour working days, no social life, high stress...
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    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    I’m surprised that you will receive your baseline grade as your ‘actual’ mark on your transcript. I would have thought that, as an incentive for people to still work hard, the grade you actually achieved would be the one shown to employees on transcripts. So in that scenario, if a person with a...
  9. J

    DAC Beachcroft video interview

    Anyone heard back yet?
  10. J

    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    At any point during the recruitment process is university attendance checked at all through your academic referee? I didn’t have the best time at uni and never really left the house so as a result my attendance, apart from one module, is quite literally 0%. If this is the sort of thing that’s...
  11. J

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Perhaps will impact direct TC applications. May be little point in doing any as spaces will be given to those who are further down the vac scheme application process
  12. J

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    VI website crashed with no answers saved, and no option to redo them, lovely stuff.
  13. J

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Gutted I graduated last year, as someone who sucks at exams this policy would have been great for me. I guess it is different for aspiring solicitors though because of the need to perform well in each module. Still, for other graduates this exam period will be an absolute doss
  14. J

    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    They seemed to have done the recruitment process in two different stages with many people receiving invites in January, and the others in March. I received my VI invite at the beginning of March and in my email it said that the deadline to submit it is the 10th April, after which they will be...

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