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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

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Quick question re group exercises in assessment centres - are you ever asked to rank each team member's performance throughout the task?
I have never heard of this so I am inclined to say no, it would be a bit unusual since everyone is in competition so I am assuming people will rank everyone very low to shine. In my experience, this has not been the case, we had partners and graduate recruitment evaluating us and that was it.
 

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would it be too informal to DM gradrec on social media to ask when they would get back to candidates? i feel annoying emaling them for a small thing like that 😭
I personally would not do that, I do not think it is productive. They are very busy this time of year so I would cut them some slack and try to focus on other applications and forget about the ones you have submitted. This is how I moved on from applications once submitted last year!
 
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