TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2021-22 (#1)

[CorporateLaw101]

How long should the Links test report take to receive?

I got mine >24 hours after completion

 

[BM99]

I got motivation and resilience for mine this year🤦‍♀️😢

Same here...And I got respect as the lowest score attribute

 

[CorporateLaw101]

Out of curiosity, which attributes have people got for Linklaters CAPP this year?

I got Commercial Thinking and Working with Others as my top 2.

Resource and Work management as my weakest

Scored in the 78th percentile for the WG.

 

[Niloufar Nateghi]

Out of curiosity, which attributes have people got for Linklaters CAPP this year?

I got Commercial Thinking and Working with Others as my top 2.

Resource and Work management as my weakest

Scored in the 78th percentile for the WG.

how do you find out your WG results?

 

[CorporateLaw101]

how do you find out your WG results?

You can just email grad recruitment and they’ll send over your test results.

 

[jellybelly123]

I wasn't aware that was something Forage did. Sounds odd to use that when you could just use the firm's teleconference software like Zoom or Teams. To me that suggests it is more of a simulation rather than working in a team of solicitors.

The Slaughter and May Winter Workshop is on Forage and Teams! I was expecting it to be somewhat interactive - hopefully not a just a simulation 🤞

 

[Kubed]

Thanks for your reply - sorry I should have made it clearer, I was referencing the firms that are using Forage to host their winter vac schemes and not the free internship simulation programmes on Forage. Sorry for the confusion!

Hi - I did Travers' virtual scheme in the summer that used Forage but it was mainly used to share resources/tasks and the schedule for each day with links to Zoom sessions was also on there. We also had to submit our assessed assignments through it. The vac scheme was very interactive and Forage was really only used as an administrative tool. Hope that helps.

 

[Anonymous28377]

I received relatively bad first year grades (59% overall) but in second year ended with 68%. I’ve got through to interviews and always passed the initial selection process. This is my first cycle but I’m assuming once you get to interview your grades are already approved as ‘good enough’. I also think it depends which modules you do in first year and your specific grades for those modules like contract law, equity, land etc. as those are the modules firms look out for.

Thank you for your reply!

 

[SCN]

The Slaughter and May Winter Workshop is on Forage and Teams! I was expecting it to be somewhat interactive - hopefully not a just a simulation 🤞

yhhhh that's why I asked aha because I'm doing their winter workshop next week too and was wondering whether it'll be more than just a simulation 😄

 

[gg332dd]

Anyone else still waiting to hear from bird & bird post-WG?

 

[AspiringSol]

does linklaters actually ever invite ppl to AC who didnt do past schemes with them (ie Pathfinders etc)?

 

[Jessica Booker]

The Slaughter and May Winter Workshop is on Forage and Teams! I was expecting it to be somewhat interactive - hopefully not a just a simulation 🤞

The more interactive elements are likely to be on Teams while I suspect you will just be going through a modular simulation on Forage.

From other posts, it seems that Forage is used to assess an assignment and for information to be shared on, but that the interactions with people will be outside of Forage - so in your case on Teams. I am not surprised to hear this as I thought Forage didn't have any live video capability (why it has to be used alongside Zoom or Teams)

 

[M777]

DLA PFO summer internship (london) - curious if anyone got through or have they filled all spaces?

 

[anon123456789]

Out of curiosity, which attributes have people got for Linklaters CAPP this year?

I got Commercial Thinking and Working with Others as my top 2.

Resource and Work management as my weakest

Scored in the 78th percentile for the WG.

Congrats on your score! I still need to email grad rec so thanks for reminding me 🤣

My top two were motivation and respect and my worst was resource and work management ✌️ my results are different every year lol

 

[Sfernan21]

DLA PFO summer internship (london) - curious if anyone got through or have they filled all spaces?

Sorry to hear this, may I ask when you applied?

 

[lawapplicationaccount]

Question about DLA Piper, applied around September, haven't heard anything back but my mate says they're sending rejections now. My portal says it was last updated 25 November, am wondering if that's a silent rejection?

 

[GXA123]

Is the Gowling assessment automatic?????

No, it’s the next stage

 

[jellybelly123]

Out of curiosity, which attributes have people got for Linklaters CAPP this year?

I got Commercial Thinking and Working with Others as my top 2.

Resource and Work management as my weakest

Scored in the 78th percentile for the WG.

My lowest scoring attribute was critical thinking on the CAPP but then I scored in the 93rd percentile for the WG - hoping they will cancel each other out?! 🤞

 

[vacschemeapss]

And apologies if this has already been asked, but for Linklaters does anyone how the Capp assessment is weighted compared with other components e.g. WG?

Definitely weigh CAPP quite heavily over WG. I got 94 percentile in WG but didn't get an AC invite for winter vs

 

[CorporateLaw101]

Congrats on your score! I still need to email grad rec so thanks for reminding me 🤣

My top two were motivation and respect and my worst was resource and work management ✌️ my results are different every year lol

they took about a week to get back to me so worth doing ASAP!