TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

[MandyAA]

Hi everyone,
Does anyone have any tips for taking your mind off a video interview that you feel went very badly?

Cannot shake the feeling that I completely messed up my PWC video interview

 

[Marissa]

anyone applied for clearly's WVS but wasn't able to complete the rare contextual survey after submitting?

 

[TCLA Community Assistant]

Hi, for a VC application question of 'why do you want to be a lawyer?', is it worth mentioning my interest in being a commercial lawyer specifically?

I would include more elements of why commercial law into this answer unless this is being asked in another question/elsewhere on the application form.

 

[kemmell]

I would include more elements of why commercial law into this answer unless this is being asked in another question/elsewhere on the application form.

Thank you! Also, I've just got the Bronze membership package, please can I be given access to the application and interview databases?

 

[Arf1309]

Bird & Bird VI Invite!!

 

[aspiringsolicitor1234]

For people who received an AC invite for Simmons, how long after submitting the VI & blended assessment did you recieve it?

 

[TCLA Community Assistant]

Thank you! Also, I've just got the Bronze membership package, please can I be given access to the application and interview databases?

Please can you PM me proof of purchase and I can get this set up for you.

 

[Z48]

anyone applied for clearly's WVS but wasn't able to complete the rare contextual survey after submitting?

If you haven't been able to do it yet, I think there's a typo on the link, when I took out the '2' it worked. But in the confirmation email the link worked

 

[Lopez2017]

Does anyone know what the seat options are during a TC at 2Birds? I can't find it anywhere on their website and graduate recruitment aren't responding.

I'm especially wondering whether there are mandatory seats and/or TMT option.

 

[kmo20]

Has anyone heard from BCLP for the December open day?

 

[izzy1036]

Does anyone know Covington & Burling's vacation scheme application questions for this year?

 

[webberwerter]

Have dechert ac invites gone out

 

[Claristered]

Has anyone heard from BCLP for the December open day?

Hi! Not yet I am afraid. I applied on the 18th October but got nothing yet.

 

[Claristered]

Hi guys! Has anyone heard from BCLP for their Spring VC? I applied for it on the 16th Oct and did the test and got the feedback on the 23rd but nothing on whether I passed to the next stage (VI) yet. I now it is rolling so I am afraid I already missed my chance.

 

[bibss]

Have dechert ac invites gone out

I think they'll wait until everyone has completed the VI and written exercise this week

 

[catlover123]

W&C VI! Had started to lose hope after not hearing from them for so long but I guess not [Edit: I applied close to the deadline, one or two days before.]

 

[legallyells]

Hi guys! Has anyone heard from BCLP for their Spring VC? I applied for it on the 16th Oct and did the test and got the feedback on the 23rd but nothing on whether I passed to the next stage (VI) yet. I now it is rolling so I am afraid I already missed my chance.

hey, i applied on the 30th september and haven’t heard anything since receiving feedback on the test. from what i remember at the open day, it seems they do a semi-rolling approach so i definitely think you’d be fine applying mid oct.

 

[Claristered]

hey, i applied on the 30th september and haven’t heard anything since receiving feedback on the test. from what i remember at the open day, it seems they do a semi-rolling approach so i definitely think you’d be fine applying mid oct.

Hi! Thank you very much for letting me know! It definitively puts me at ease now. I will keep waiting and hope to hear back from them soon. If I may ask, when did you do the test and got the feedback? For me, I got the invite on the 16th and did it on the 22nd and got the feedback on the 23rd.

I also applied for their open day this december so I am also waiting on that but I think they wait until the deadline this week passes and then choose. How did this go for you?

 

[ccfuturetraineesolicitor]

I think they'll wait until everyone has completed the VI and written exercise this week

did grad rec say that the last set of VIs and written exercises will be completed this week? Or will there be more in the coming weeks?

 

[bibss]

did grad rec say that the last set of VIs and written exercises will be completed this week? Or will there be more in the coming weeks?

I'm not sure if they'll send more invites out. When I booked my slot, the last date available to do the written exercise was this Thursday.