TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

[Jessica Booker]

@axelbeugre Can I ask for the question " Please add any supplementary educational information including extra study and international qualifications.", does it means I should add some summer school/ exchange programme? But if I do not have any these experience, can I just write some online courses and skills I have learnt?

Yes - you can include any summer schools/exchange programmes, or any online courses. I don’t think you necessarily need to detail the skills learnt as such but if the title of the course isn’t necessarily obvious as to what you studied, then you can clarify the subjects you learnt on the course.

 

[Cynthia14]

Yes - you can include any summer schools/exchange programmes, or any online courses. I don’t think you necessarily need to detail the skills learnt as such but if the title of the course isn’t necessarily obvious as to what you studied, then you can clarify the subjects you learnt on the course.

thanks！

 

[Samridhi Jain]

Has anyone heard from TW? Not sure if I should email them. I applied on the deadline (1st). (SVS)
On my portal it says - we are currently reviewing all applications (13/12)

 

[Jessica Booker]

Has anyone heard from TW? Not sure if I should email them. I applied on the deadline (1st). (SVS)
On my portal it says - we are currently reviewing all applications (13/12)

I wouldn’t chase them until the new year (most likely the 3rd or 4th at the earliest). If the portal only changes 4 days ago, of which part of that is a weekend, I really wouldn’t expect at update for another 2 weeks, but given its Christmas, realistically that isn’t until the new year now.

 

[lawtab]

Anyone still waiting to hear back from Slaughters re summer work exp scheme?

 

[F a v o u r]

Does anyone know if Cleary Gottlieb is recruiting on a rolling basis for the vac scheme this cycle?

 

[Samridhi Jain]

What would be your top tips for the Willkie app? anything you'd like to highlight that's worth noting?

 

[ccfuturetraineesolicitor]

not sure if this is just a glitch on my Taylor Wessing application portal but I can no longer see my submitted responses to the TW application questions? Is anyone experiencing the same issue?

 

[IwantaVacSchemePlz]

not sure if this is just a glitch on my Taylor Wessing application portal but I can no longer see my submitted responses to the TW application questions? Is anyone experiencing the same issue?

Think thats normal - I can't see mine either

 

[amrita6399]

I wanted insight on an application question for a Vacation Scheme. The question is: Think of a current commercial issue that has recently attracted your attention. Why does it interest you, why do you consider it to be significant and how do you think this will impact on the firm's clients? What does "significant" mean? Does the firm want to know about the potential opportunities and challenges of the commercial news story?

 

[Dakuai]

Yes - you can reference this as part of your reason. Remember it shouldn’t be your sole explanation, purely because something drew you to apply to the firm the first time around (before you met the partner at the AC), but it’s fine to reference something like this as part of your answer.

thank you so much!

 

[VacayScheme]

Anybody who has applied to Fieldfisher - is the application form asking for individual modules or just your degree and overall resulted?

It is structured like it just wants you to input the overall degree, but the form also looks a bit like it only wants achieved results not predicted. A bit confused 🤔

 

[LLB]

Late to the game but just found a Latham PFO sat in my junk folder since friday💀

 

[Dwight]

I have been invited to take the TW online test. Anyone who has done it, can you please PM me?

I won't ask anything very specific or something that would be unfair to other candidates; just want to garner a basic idea of what the test looks like and number of questions/timing (if timed).

 

[IwantaVacSchemePlz]

I have been invited to take the TW online test. Anyone who has done it, can you please PM me?

I won't ask anything very specific or something that would be unfair to other candidates; just want to garner a basic idea of what the test looks like and number of questions/timing (if timed).

it's an extremely hard WG without assumptions

 

[Deleted member 32324]

Late to the game but just found a Latham PFO sat in my junk folder since friday💀

May I ask when did you apply?

 

[Manuchelsout]

Any cms VI advice and anyone done the VI yet

 

[laby201]

I have been invited to take the TW online test. Anyone who has done it, can you please PM me?

I won't ask anything very specific or something that would be unfair to other candidates; just want to garner a basic idea of what the test looks like and number of questions/timing (if timed).

Completed the test a couple of weeks back. From memory, it was timed but not for the whole test but per question (you only had 3 minutes to answer 2 questions on a set passage).

In terms of format, it’s essentially a WG but harder (they throw in “fairly strong”/“fairly weak”/“very strong”/“very weak” for the arguments section). It’s a difficult one to prepare for other than doing their practice test.

 

[LLB]

May I ask when did you apply?

11th november

 

[legally.brown]

Just took my Linklaters WG and it says my application is ‘on hold’.. Does it say the same for everyone else?