Theres still a few ACs taking place, so TW may be waiting till those are complete before getting back to everyone. (Although I have heard of some VC offers). Stay positive - you still have a good chance!
2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion
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The commercial awareness podcast is really good (by tapiwa museba)
This was answered 2 days ago, scroll back a few pages and you'll find the answers. Search function is also helpful
Would it be crazy to start planning for direct TC apps?
What a weird question of them to ask you!!!! I shouldn't think there would be. Unless you've posted about the VS on LinkedIn or anything there would be no way for them to see you lied.
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30 days is the standard, but an organisation can request an additional two months fairly easily (which is pretty standard), especially under current conditions. Complex is quite easy to define given true variety of ways in which someone’s personal data could be stored in regards to recruitment (eg they may even need to request hand written notes from interviewers who are WFH).
The assumption is that the “feedback” itself is in a user friendly format based on the data stored - trust me it rarely is from a candidate’s perspective!
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Thanks for your help! It was for Boodle Hatfield, they said a couple of weeks at the interview. I looked at the forum and someone mentioned they were told they were successful last week. Not sure what that means for me haha.
Having dealt with several SARs myself, both as someone fulfilling it and someone requesting my data, a request as narrow as "my recruitment feedback" is not going to be considered complex enough to warrant a two month extension. One would expect a law firm to have a streamlined enough system to be able to supply SARs in a timely manner.
I still don't think doing it is a good idea for the original asker, but it's not very likely that they'll be waiting more than one calendar month either way.
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how have u already had an offer?! they haven't even done the Case studies yet ?
TCLA squad I have a question: if you were rejected by a firm you really really liked post vac and they said on the feedback call ‘ you can apply next year’ , is it advisable to do so?
Or is it just contributing to a waste of time/embarrassment that comes from you thinking you have a shot when you really don’t?
It wasn’t a ‘you should apply’ more just a - ‘you can if you want’. 😅
Or is it just contributing to a waste of time/embarrassment that comes from you thinking you have a shot when you really don’t?
It wasn’t a ‘you should apply’ more just a - ‘you can if you want’. 😅
Well if they said that you can..Why not? Make sure to make substantial improvements to your app
If they're already saying you can apply instead of telling you you can't, which a lot of firms disallow if you get a post VS/AC rejection, I don't see that there is any harm in trying. Depends on if the feedback you were given is something you think you can act on by the time you are reapplying next year.
They have done some case studies and final interviews. Mishcon often do all stages simultaneously
I would go for it! I do know trainees at firms who only converted a TC on their second go around, having been unsuccessful on their first vac scheme with the firm.
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It isn’t the request that can make it complex, it’s how it is stored that can. I know a firm that had to request access to a building that had been in lockdown as they were still relying on paper folders for feedback and said they would fulfil it within 90 days as access to the building in itself needed sign off. I know another that had a nightmare of getting feedback documents from someone who was working from home and was isolating too!
These things are sometimes straight forward (and should be) but often are not unfortunately. Many SARs are not specific enough or request all data, possible through naivety, and then it gets very complex, especially if you have external suppliers also holding lots of data on a candidate too (psychometric test platforms, video interview platforms, platforms like Topscore). That’s where the complexity often comes in from my experience.
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