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<blockquote data-quote="Ashlea" data-source="post: 41695" data-attributes="member: 8697"><p>Hi Jessica, I apologise in advance as this will be quite lengthy and confusing to explain!</p><p></p><p>I started my degree in 2016 and completed my first year of university, but due to severe depression I took a leave of absence from January 2018 and have only returned to start my second year this September. Rather than return to my former university, I transferred my credits to Open University as I started to work full time as a Litigation Executive. Though I did gain roughly 2 years of experience during my time away from studying once I had become more stable, I am concerned that this gap is quite significant and firms may see this as a downfall. I am wondering if this can be explained in the mitigating circumstances or whether I should use this as a positive factor to explain that I overcame personal problems, then whilst receiving treatment I started to gain experience and now I am working full time whilst studying etc. </p><p></p><p>In addition to this, though I gained a 2.1 in my studies at first year this was predominately luck I was absent continuously due to my previous issues explained. I am concerned that an academic reference would be difficult to obtain as I was absent a signifiant amount of time, and don't feel that my personal tutor really knew me at all. That being said, I have completed assignments thus far with OU and gained 85%, however I won't receive a full module grade until the end of the academic year. As it is a distance learning course my careers advisor said that my tutor may struggle to provide a reference this early on if required, as I have not been studying long enough for them to comment on this. </p><p></p><p>I guess what I'm asking is - should I proceed and try to explain all of this or am I clutching at straws? I feel as though my initial problems have complicated my chances but at the same time I do not want to give up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashlea, post: 41695, member: 8697"] Hi Jessica, I apologise in advance as this will be quite lengthy and confusing to explain! I started my degree in 2016 and completed my first year of university, but due to severe depression I took a leave of absence from January 2018 and have only returned to start my second year this September. Rather than return to my former university, I transferred my credits to Open University as I started to work full time as a Litigation Executive. Though I did gain roughly 2 years of experience during my time away from studying once I had become more stable, I am concerned that this gap is quite significant and firms may see this as a downfall. I am wondering if this can be explained in the mitigating circumstances or whether I should use this as a positive factor to explain that I overcame personal problems, then whilst receiving treatment I started to gain experience and now I am working full time whilst studying etc. In addition to this, though I gained a 2.1 in my studies at first year this was predominately luck I was absent continuously due to my previous issues explained. I am concerned that an academic reference would be difficult to obtain as I was absent a signifiant amount of time, and don't feel that my personal tutor really knew me at all. That being said, I have completed assignments thus far with OU and gained 85%, however I won't receive a full module grade until the end of the academic year. As it is a distance learning course my careers advisor said that my tutor may struggle to provide a reference this early on if required, as I have not been studying long enough for them to comment on this. I guess what I'm asking is - should I proceed and try to explain all of this or am I clutching at straws? I feel as though my initial problems have complicated my chances but at the same time I do not want to give up. [/QUOTE]
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