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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

Isabel709

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Feb 25, 2025
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Guys what do I do in this situation. a law firm has just scheduled an interview for next week. But the issue is the interview is on the same day as my induction for a part time job ive been offered. Obviously the law firm takes precedence but Idk. what do I do should I call up the retail place and tell them I can't make it for the induction or should I ask the firm if they have other slots available for the interview
100% call up the retail place and ask to reschedule the induction. i've done so many part-time minimum wage jobs and the inductions have never been anything more important than online training or shadowing someone
 

law123456789

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  • Sep 12, 2025
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    Bit of a random one....

    I have a vac scheme offer from a firm which means that if I get offered a place on slaughters' vac scheme I could only do 1 out of their 2 schemes (they run two diff ones over summer). In the initial email inviting me to interview, Slaughters said to let them know if we receive vac scheme offers from another firm or if we need to know sooner for any other reason.

    Technically I don't need an expedited response, I just need to be put on the second scheme if successful.

    I'm a bit paranoid that explaining this will somehow prejudice me and could just be an easy rejection or something - was wondering if anyone had any thoughts / similar experiences!
     

    lawstudent2

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    Dec 9, 2024
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    Do we think that mishcon summer acs might be out soon then now that they appear to be done w spring, or is it gonna be more weeks of waiting
    they are the last firm that I am waiting to hear back from so I'm so keen just to find out if imma have to do this all again next year tbh
     

    abc124

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    Aug 9, 2025
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    This may be a stupid question, but do firm keep waitlists in case people drop out of ACs or in case people underperform? They usually send more AC invites than they offer TCs so I was thinking probably the former? I'm currently a bit cooked with most of my apps so I'm trying to make some delusional calculations of my odds where I can still cling onto a tiny bit of hope lmao
     

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