TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
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Love this for you. Congratulations! 🥳🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
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It hasn't for the last two cycles - not sure whether it will or not next cycle though.
Thank you very much for confirming Jessica, so is it only academics, you don’t need to list work experience as I am worried my non legal work experience would count against me?
Any kind of work experience will always make your application stand out and in no case would it work against you
A lot of firms look for candidates with non legal work experience too as it helps gain different types of experiences! I had no legal work experience except two open days when I got my first legal placement. It is possible that linklaters don’t have a separate work experience section but the application questions may be such that you would have to link your answer back to work experiences! (I am not too sure about the questions as I didn’t apply)
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Non legal work experience is rarely going to count against you.
For the vacation scheme, I understand the firm relies quite heavily on the online testing they have in place.
A close friend is a partner at Goodwin and rates it. I quote “not many d**heads at all”. I’m biased though as it’s been my top firm since I started this process.
Fabulous problem to have!
Hi all, just wanted to ask what kind of information do you guys asked when going to a law firm open days? I just want to know what kind of "insider scoop" that I can asked for to demonstrate my research and my motivation to apply for that particular firm. I would really appreciate any examples or things i could consider.
Hi @Amma Usman @Andrei Radu I've been asked to prep a commercial story for an upcoming interview, do you think discussing the rise in private credit would suffice or is that too broad?
Michelmores and I’ve just remembered that it’s bank holiday weekend so it must be Friday (today) 😬
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Highly unlikely to be Sunday unless its an international team who are partly/all based in a country like Dubai that works on Sundays.
I don’t think so to be fair, but smart casual never fails!
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No need to turn up business smart - smart casual will be fine. Maybe just avoid jeans/trainers - but I suspect that with the weather like it is, people in the office (assuming they are not all WFH due to the bank holiday) might even be in dress down today.
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I think the rise of private credit is a great story to discuss. Every major commercial topic you can discuss, from inflation and monetary policies to trade wars, will be quite broad in the sense of affecting almost everything in the global economy - if anything, I would say the rise of private credit is a slightly more niche and finance-focused topic. The fact they are quite broad does not mean that you should not discuss any of them. The trick is to narrow down the scope of your analysis: instead of saying 'I will discuss the causes and effects of the rise of private credit', which commits you to an impossibly comprehensive presentation, you can state you will discuss one or two of its major impacts, the way it is affecting a particular industry, or its connection to the law firm you are applying at.
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