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motivation for VS

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Pls may I ask – in a vacation scheme cover letter for a regional firm, (i) how to demonstrate a “a keen interest in applying for a TC after completing the VS” (ii) how to answer ‘why the vacation scheme’- without sounding like the VS will enable me to make my mind up about the firm (as I have been told to simultaneously making a TC app to the firm) (iii) to explain the motivation to join is it okay to say: “that there maybe more responsibility and a possible opportunity to run cases as a junior lawyer with supervision if the team deems fit”
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