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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

elle woods

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Guys in my stress induced madness from not getting a response from Freshfields, I just realised that I never got an email confirming my completion of the FF stage 2 assessment, but I am 10000% sure I submitted it correctly. Should I be concerned?
not too sure on the stage 2 part, but what I do know rn is that they've already held quite a few ACs and are currently giving out offer calls. I've heard that they will be holding some last few ACs in January so maybe they're focusing on their current task at hand before going back to invite people to the next set of ACs?
 
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Dannie

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not too sure on the stage 2 part, but what I do know rn is that they've already held quite a few ACs and are currently giving out offer calls. I've heard that they will be holding some last few ACs in January so maybe they're focusing on their current task at hand before going back to invite people to the next set of ACs?
is this for vac or DTC? I've not heard any AC offers for direct tc yet :(
 

cookedlawstudent

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not too sure on the stage 2 part, but what I do know rn is that they've already held quite a few ACs and are currently giving out offer calls. I've heard that they will be holding some last few ACs in January so maybe they're focusing on their current task at hand before going back to invite people to the next set of ACs?
That's true, and they have still been handing out invites for their Stage 1 and 2 online assessments in the middle of these ACs, which implies they're still open to more applications. The people on this forum have said that they were invited on Nov 28th and then they held their ACs 2 weeks after one day after another, so I think the final invites will be sent within the next two weeks.
 
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lawstudent2

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Guys in my stress induced madness from not getting a response from Freshfields, I just realised that I never got an email confirming my completion of the FF stage 2 assessment, but I am 10000% sure I submitted it correctly. Should I be concerned?
I didn't get a confirmation email, but I had to email them to check that my audio could be heard as I had some weird warning symbols whilst I was speaking and they confirmed that they received it so I think it should be fine
 

AMullin

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Hey, just a quick one as I’m 99% sure what to do…

I’ve had a test invite from Kennedys and I just went back over my application and saw that for me WE section I didn’t just list my current job as 2013-Present, I also listed my previous job (Paralegal) as 2012-Present rather than 2012-2013. I’m thinking I should make their Early Careers Team aware of this in case they think I have all of that experience as a paralegal and that affected their decision to give me a test invite?
 

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