TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

YS391

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Does anyone know a rough percentage for the VS to TC conversion rate for RPC? Can't find a percentage online, only information is that they recruit the 'majority of trainees from their summer scheme'.
I did their vacation scheme last year and it was around 60% of us on the schemes that converted into TCs.
 

pepsicola96

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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.
 


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