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This is such an amazing update! Thanks for sharing and good luck on your Goodwin vacation scheme! It is going to be amazing and if you decide to choose the firm I am sure I will be seeing you soon too!✨Spreadsheet update✨ courtesy of @Sharon Wu
I was rejected by WBD, HL & Bakers all in 1 day basically 🤣 not sure how I felt about that tbh and Bakers kinda stung 🥲 but we move!!
- 54 Rejections
- latest rejection - Mofo
- Hardest rejection - Pinsent Masons (post AC for TC) + Simmons & Simmons (post AC for internship x SVS)
- Easiest rejection - DLA piper
- Ghosted me - Stephenson Harwood
- Best graduate recruitment - Farrer & Co + Goodwin (I’ve never laughed on the phone soo much with grad rec in my life)🤣
- Tedious Application process - BBC (App, Test, VI + written task, 1,000 word written task and AC if you're lucky)
- VS offers - Goodwin + Farrer & Co
- AC invites - 4
- Applications remaining - 4
Mayer Brown have risen from the dead 💀 with an invite to take their SJT test 😄 5 months after applying thought they ghosted me😌
Mofo actually gave me a rejection 🥳 I assume this is because I emailed gaslighting them into giving my me one and not ghosting me 🤣
I submitted my Farrer TC application with a few amendments from my VS application.
Everytime I see someone post about SH and not hearing back makes me chuckle as I’ve not heard back from my winter VS app last year… hang in there 😅😂
In terms of prepping for my VS I’ve not done much 😳 I’ve chronically been on LinkedIn 🤣 I shall reduce this starting from today! I have finally got myself a mentor at one of the firms which is great as I am able to get some more insight. As well as provisionally getting a Coffee chat in too. I’m going to start working om my commercial awareness again starting Monday! I didn’t want to start prepping too early and drowning myself in stuff I probably won’t need to know…
Ive learnt that many who go into a VS don’t do excessive research and just take it one day at a time. Cool calm casual is my approach (I hope it works)😅
I’ve connected with a bunch of partners, trainees and even HR members to get a view of the firms from different perspectives as well as see the type of work they do and what they post/like on LinkedIn.
I’m still waiting to hear what department I’ll be sat in for Goodwin and once I know then I’ll tailor any ‘prep’ I do to that area but it’ll be basic stuff like terminology, partners, clients etc. my aim is to be able to speak to people about work but also just life.
With a US firm especially you’ll be working 12/15 hr days and if we aren’t able to talk about none work stuff it gets pretty awkward no?🤣 I want them to see me as more than just this eager person who wants a job but someone who has personality and character.
But if there’s anything anyone is doing to prep that will be of some use please do let me know I don’t want to mess this up at all😭
A massive good luck from me!