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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
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Anyone done a Bates Wells AC before? I have mine on Thursday n super nervous.
It’s an individual pres and written task on a commercial task.
Any advice would suffice!
It’s an individual pres and written task on a commercial task.
Any advice would suffice!
When a firm calls with an offer for a VS, roughly how long after would they send email confirmation?
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For my VS it was two days, but I guess it depends on the size of the intake, and whether the firm is responding to all candidates in one go. So could obviously be longer.
Three first-stage PFOs so far today: Arnold & Porter, K&L Gates, and Brown Rudnick.
Also a second-stage SHL test from Devonshires. Annoying scheduling etc. task Only got to question 21 of 24.
Also a second-stage SHL test from Devonshires. Annoying scheduling etc. task Only got to question 21 of 24.
bro is HL just ghosting ppl post-app/do they still have spaces to fill for their summer VS? I'm so on edge🥹
Another day of no firm getting back to me!!😍
For anyone that's waiting for an update from CRS:
I've emailed CRS and they've said to me they're currently prioritising reviewing Guildford applications at the moment as the scheme is happening before the London Placement. London Placement candidates can expect an answer in, "the next couple of weeks".
I've emailed CRS and they've said to me they're currently prioritising reviewing Guildford applications at the moment as the scheme is happening before the London Placement. London Placement candidates can expect an answer in, "the next couple of weeks".
Out of curiosity, is anyone planning to apply for non-law related grad jobs/schemes alongside TCs/VSs in the next cycle, or has anybody this cycle?
As a non-law (STEM) student, I've heard it can be very difficult to get paralegal positions and other legal roles without having done the GDL. So while I'm absolutely manifesting a legal career, I am naturally thinking about what else I'd do after graduating. The way I see it my options are:
1) go broke and self fund the GDL,
2) pure gap year, keep working in hospitality (and try to get a paralegal position)
3) in final year apply for some other grad jobs and hopefully secure one.
I guess the main difficulty in 3 is that it makes vacation schemes much more difficult, and just going for interviews/ACs in general I suppose, and might make it seem like I'm not committed to law. But with 1 and 2 I'd just feel so much less secure, if that makes sense. Of course at this point it's all moot, and non-law grad jobs are hardly easy to get anyway! Just curious to see how others have approached the (potentially) unemployed graduate life.
As a non-law (STEM) student, I've heard it can be very difficult to get paralegal positions and other legal roles without having done the GDL. So while I'm absolutely manifesting a legal career, I am naturally thinking about what else I'd do after graduating. The way I see it my options are:
1) go broke and self fund the GDL,
2) pure gap year, keep working in hospitality (and try to get a paralegal position)
3) in final year apply for some other grad jobs and hopefully secure one.
I guess the main difficulty in 3 is that it makes vacation schemes much more difficult, and just going for interviews/ACs in general I suppose, and might make it seem like I'm not committed to law. But with 1 and 2 I'd just feel so much less secure, if that makes sense. Of course at this point it's all moot, and non-law grad jobs are hardly easy to get anyway! Just curious to see how others have approached the (potentially) unemployed graduate life.
I think AS normally only get back to people that are successful in moving to the next stage of the process. After a while they send out the automated PFO’s to everyone else.
For example, I applied to the AstraZeneca and Covington AS Mentoring Scheme. A lot of people on this forum hadn’t heard back at all but they’d progressed me and others to the VI stage.
If their email said they’d get back to people by the 7th of March, I imagine they’ve already emailed the people moving forward. Perhaps you could send them an email to confirm?
For example, I applied to the AstraZeneca and Covington AS Mentoring Scheme. A lot of people on this forum hadn’t heard back at all but they’d progressed me and others to the VI stage.
If their email said they’d get back to people by the 7th of March, I imagine they’ve already emailed the people moving forward. Perhaps you could send them an email to confirm?
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