TCLA Direct Training Contract Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

[Simba281]

Hi everyone! For the Clyde & Co 2022 TC application, can I include more than 4 work experiences? If so, could you please tell me how to do it?

Hey, where can I find the application form? I’ve looked on the website and can’t find it :/

 

[FAH99]

Hey, where can I find the application form? I’ve looked on the website and can’t find it :/

You need to look for it in the Job Board section after clicking the 'Apply Now' button on the Graduates page. But I tried to open it again just now and this is what comes up:

Not sure why this is happening (it worked earlier today).

 

[Unknown]

I think if the question is related to you, you don't always have to show firm research. For example, if it's a competency Q like "when is a time you have worked in a team", I personally would not mention the firm in this answer.

I used to be scared of VIs - practice made me soo much better. I literally recorded myself on Photo Booth answering every question imaginable within a 60 sec time limit, and you get so good at it! I also bullet pointed examples for almost every competency so I wouldn't freeze when the question came up.

Even though you're supposed to look at the camera, I think it's totally fine to look down at the time 1/2 or even 3 times!

Hope that this helps. Whilst your answer is important, I think that 50% of it is in the delivery of your answer - making eye contact, always finishing before the time is up, smiling (even when it feels a bit forced), speaking slowly and not using too many filler words ("ums"/"ahs") will get you far! If you practice loads, you will become a pro

Thank you so much, this has helped make me feel like it is possible to improve and progress further than the VI, just have to stay motivated and keep going!

 

[Barnsworth]

Sounds like you would be hired this summer, start the SQE prep course in January, sit SQE1 in April 2023, and if you passed go on the SQE2 prep in April, taking SQE2 sometime in the summer. The 2023 SQE assessment dates haven’t been announced yet by the SRA and so they must know specific timings to run to this schedule.

I wouldn’t get confused by them calling it a training contract. Technically training contracts haven’t existed for over a decade, it’s just a term commonly used that people are familiar with.

I've attended the Kingsley Napley open day, and from my understanding the 2023 training comtract means that's the SQE starts in September, I think it's like 10 months, then after that you'd start the TC.

 

[TCLA Community Assistant]

I've attended the Kingsley Napley open day, and from my understanding the 2023 training comtract means that's the SQE starts in September, I think it's like 10 months, then after that you'd start the TC.

That's good - sounds like it's a more substantial SQE prep course then.

 

[rightletsdothis]

Hi everyone! For the Clyde & Co 2022 TC application, can I include more than 4 work experiences? If so, could you please tell me how to do it?

I don’t think you can, other than possibly filling in that little box at the end with a few bullet points of other experiences you had.

just know that Clyde & Co has a blind CV process in an attempt to increase diversity (which has definitely worked in my cohort!). No one knew my previous experience, from partner interview to GR interview. Just select your 4 most relevant I would say and put them in.

it’s far more important to be able to discuss how your relevant experience effected your motivations and understanding of law verbally in the interviews rather than on the form, as you will be discussing your work experience often to a partner who has no idea what work you’ve done in the past as it’s a blind app process.

 

[H12345678]

Has anyone heard post app for Browne Jacobson direct TC???

 

[GOI983]

I applied for BCLP 12 days ago and still no test. I've checked all of my inboxes. Is it worth emailing as I thought that this was automatic?

Their test is not automatic.

 

[she'stheman]

Has anyone heard post app for Browne Jacobson direct TC???

I applied last year and tests were sent out early June with telephone interviews taking place mid - late August. I expect the timeline will differ slightly this year but hope that will help you manage expectations

 

[John Doe]

Hey when did you email and did you pass the telephone interview? I didn’t get any email about that or any contact since the TI

Hi, I applied last week (a bit late to the party I suppose!) so I haven't been invited to the TI yet. I emailed to HR to arrange my travel plans accordingly in case I got invited to the AC.

 

[sibs23]

I have Dentons' telephone interview coming up Any tips or advice would be really appreciated

 

[Lumree]

Has anyone heard from AS about Harbottle & Lewis?

 

[John Travoni]

Had anyone heard back positively from HSBC regarding their inaugural training contract - the one posted on aspiring solicitors?

 

[SamsanTech]

I have Dentons' telephone interview coming up Any tips or advice would be really appreciated

How long did it take them to invite you for a telephone interview after completing the Watson Glaser?

 

[IT7]

What is the general timeline for most direct TC interviews that have application deadlines in June/July? Do interviews end by August or are they in September too sometimes?

 

[TCLA Community Assistant]

What is the general timeline for most direct TC interviews that have application deadlines in June/July? Do interviews end by August or are they in September too sometimes?

Typically across August and September - for some firms it will be later based on how their VS conversion recruitment went (and when this wraps up). But typically they try to wrap everything up by mid-September ahead of people returning to university.

 

[sibs23]

How long did it take them to invite you for a telephone interview after completing the Watson Glaser?

11 days

 

[bppgdlgrad]

Does anyone have any tips for an AC with Ashurst?

 

[John Doe]

11 days

Hi, when did you submit your Dentons' app?

 

[TChopeful]

Hello, I have recently accepted a job offer that I would like to put on my applications. However, I haven't started yet. I am aware that time is ticking and that firms recruit on a rolling basis, do you think I should include this on my applications or wait until I have actually started to do so?