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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

Anyone have any tips for a telephone interview? I have one today and I’ve never done one before! It’s the BJ one

I’m wondering if I should keep my responses much more brief in comparison to a VI especially considering the interview is only 15 mins
Hi!

You will get some hurdle type questions at the start, make sure you dont spend any time at all on them (like what team would you like to experience or what other office than your main preference), they will let you know when the 'real' questions start.

For the main questions, there is about 5, I would suggest about 2 minutes for each, just because for me and some other people I know they do stop you if you are spending too much time on one question.

Hopefully this helps, good luck!
 
Hi!

You will get some hurdle type questions at the start, make sure you dont spend any time at all on them (like what team would you like to experience or what other office than your main preference), they will let you know when the 'real' questions start.

For the main questions, there is about 5, I would suggest about 2 minutes for each, just because for me and some other people I know they do stop you if you are spending too much time on one question.

Hopefully this helps, good luck!
Thank you so so much, this is really helpful! ❤️
 
Anyone have any tips for a telephone interview? I have one today and I’ve never done one before! It’s the BJ one

I’m wondering if I should keep my responses much more brief in comparison to a VI especially considering the interview is only 15 mins
Hi! Good Luck today! The interview was super chill and the questions are very typical! I would say the first question is quite long (dw v common q) and after I finished I apologised for speaking so long and they did say most ppl spoke for a long time and that it would be best to try be quicker on my next answers.
The interviewer was really lovely though!
 
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@Abbie Whitlock Hope you're doing well!

For behavioural style assessments, if you get questions with sliders, should you always move the slider to the very end, or is it ok to sometimes have them more leaning towards 1 side but not fully at the end? How can we determine when to move it to the very end or when it's fine not to? Hope that makes sense, thank you in advance!
 
Hi! Good Luck today! The interview was super chill and the questions are very typical! I would say the first question is quite long (dw v common q) and after I finished I apologised for speaking so long and they did say most ppl spoke for a long time and that it would be best to try be quicker on my next answers.
The interviewer was really lovely though!
Ahh thank you so so much! That’s super helpful❤️
 

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