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17 December 2025
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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!
Hey guys, sorry about the bad news :( I completely understand how disappointing it is to spend ages on application after application and not get the outcome you were hoping for.
I think it can be helpful to take a bit of time to relax and reflect. Maybe read back over your applications and see...
I absolutely don't want to diminish what you are feeling, and as you have said you have already tried to spin your experiences, but I truly think that any experience you have can be used in an impressive way. I found that the work experience/CV sections meant a lot for my applications, so While...
I think it's great and really useful that you've managed to get work experience outside of standard vac schemes and I don't think it is off putting to law firms at all!
I managed to get a few in-house experiences during my second year of university (after I had received rejections from every...
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