TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26

[Matt Murdock]

Congrats! Did you get sent Stephenson Harwood VI for DTC? Or is this from VS?

Thank you! Let's continue on chat/DM!

 

[legal world]

Hi @Abbie Whitlock, hope your week's going well! I've just received a 45-minute interview invite for Stephenson Harwood's Dubai VS, and it's supposed to be held with the future talent team and a colleague from the Dubai office. Do you have any advice on how I should best prepare for this? The email doesn't state if it's a skills/competency/commercial awareness-based interview so I'm a bit unsure of what to expect. I'd appreciate any insight you have. Thank you!

 

[Bah Bah Pink Sheep]

Thank you so much. I always feel out of place in most firms so I think it must be imposter syndrome. I do have a somehow strong Eastern European accent and I often feel like this may be the problem, but that’s impossible because the firms I apply to are international, and I also speak 4 languages so my accent is all over the place. However, I still articulate myself well I feel. I just wish I was a native English speaker, so I wouldn’t make silly mistakes when I’m nervous e.g saying one thousand hundred instead of one hundred thousand but that’s because I’m nervous

And thank you. DLA told me I’m not structured and I need to use different examples for star. So I’ve done that, but I have not received feedback for my second AC. I will get it in a couple of weeks.

Hey! So I failed 4 ACs this cycle - but I managed to pass 2 (what's even worse were that they were in no particular order, so my failures and successes seemed super random).

Sometimes it's really just a combination of luck, preparation, and circumstances! All I can recommend is to keep working at it, learn what you did well and what you should avoid for next time, and keep at it! I trust you will be successful in due course!

But I also suffer from imposter syndrome haha, try not let it eat at you!