2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

[A92167!8]

Kirkland AC!!!! Same day as my mishcon case study so will have to sort something out hahahah

Congrats! When is the Mishcon case study?

 

[packhorse]

Kirkland AC!

 

[Victoria R]

I mean as a result of Covid and all the redundancies that people have been given especially in grad roles in other industries, sadly that's to be expected. This is going to be the most competitive recruitment cycle for a long time unfortunately

Out of interest, what stage of the application cycle do you think will be affected by this? Will firms proportionally increase the amount of applicants they invite to, say, VIs and ACs to reflect the number of applications, or do you think it will be harder to get through to these stages this year?

 

[tk166]

Kirkland AC!!!! Same day as my mishcon case study so will have to sort something out hahahah

Same !!!!

 

[Kola]

KIRKLAND AC ARGHH!!!!

 

[Andrew M]

I mean as a result of Covid and all the redundancies that people have been given especially in grad roles in other industries, sadly that's to be expected. This is going to be the most competitive recruitment cycle for a long time unfortunately

Yeah, it isn't a surprise. Just isn't what you want to hear when you're anxiously waiting to hear back...

 

[rosie.l]

OMG Kirkland AC!!

 

[Emily K]

After posting that ACs seemed out of my reach yesterday...I JUST GOT MY FIRST EVER AC!!! (for kirkland!!!) This just proves you never know what's round the corner in this process haha!

 

[Elle W]

Hey guys, congrats on the test invite! What dates did you both apply if you don't mind me asking

Thank you! I think I applied around a week before the deadline so probably the 1st December. Good luck if you're waiting on the response

 

[Kubed]

For anyone that's not seen the Reed Smith thread...they've emailed to apologise and say that my responses were received. I imagine others will have received this too. Panic over!

 

[Legal_rawn]

I also have a Kirkland AC!!!! Omg amazed! Any advice would be so helpful!

 

[Jaysen]

Kirkland AC!!!! Same day as my mishcon case study so will have to sort something out hahahah

Fantastic, well done!

Back in the day, in my Kirkland AC, the interviewer told me that she cried every night for the first few months at the firm. She then asked me how I'd cope

It's probably changed now but we also had to pick a person/fictional character and justify why they were best equipped to run a company (to the rest of the group).

 

[cmaj]

Me @ Richard Capper from Hill Dickinson saying at a Legal Cheek event that they've had even more applications this year than previous years.

He then said in the booth that a large proportion of their TCs go to internal staff members... if you’re passionate about their areas of specialism though, none of that matters as you will get through if you try hard enough

A good event overall!!!!

On a separate note, I am BUZZING for all of you with Kirkland ACs Congrats!!!

 

[M0723]

AC invite for Macfarlanes! any tips would be hugely appreciated

Also, has anyone heard back from Mayer Brown post telephone interview?

Hi, may I ask when did you apply to Macfarlanes!

 

[CF1234]

Has anyone heard back from Bakers post AC ?

 

[Lily721]

Out of interest, what stage of the application cycle do you think will be affected by this? Will firms proportionally increase the amount of applicants they invite to, say, VIs and ACs to reflect the number of applications, or do you think it will be harder to get through to these stages this year?

From what I heard, firms aren’t increasing the number of people interviewed etc.
Personally, I do wonder why in light of vac schemes being done online, firms don’t do more vac schemes or offer more places? I do understand that the number of TC in the end are most likely the same as previous years, but vac schemes are so important that firms could have easily increased their capacity at least until things go back to what they used to (if they ever do).

 

[MI]

Anyone else having difficulties with Pinsent Masons testing software and received a reply from them? I sent them an email but perhaps someone has already had a response here which might help me anticipate what to do.

For reference the issue I am having is the software can only be downloaded on a Windows processor, which I don't have access to. I am also concerned that they provided a deadline of less than 48 hours.

I have the same problem and have just emailed GR. Not sure what to do if they don't respond before the deadline at 3 on Friday!

 

[JT2023hopeful]

me seeing everyone get AC invites while the only emails I'm getting are from targetjobs

 

[33c]

Guys, last year I didn't get past one VI and this week I've received 2 post-VI ACs!!

I actually cannot believe it hahahaha

my biggest advice would be to film yourself and watch it back. Hadn't done that until this year and realised I sounded IMPRESSIVELY bored and you could clearly see I was reading notes lol serves me right tbf

 

[tk166]

From what I heard, firms aren’t increasing the number of people interviewed etc.
Personally, I do wonder why in light of vac schemes being done online, firms don’t do more vac schemes or offer more places? I do understand that the number of TC in the end are most likely the same as previous years, but vac schemes are so important that firms could have easily increased their capacity at least until things go back to what they used to (if they ever do).

Surely a lot of firms would be trying to cut costs at the moment meaning they’d lower the number of vac scheme places? Sidley winter vac scheme was lowered in numbers and I suspect a similar thing to happen for spring but I’m not 100% sure