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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2025-26
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<blockquote data-quote="johnsmith" data-source="post: 242918" data-attributes="member: 42430"><p>They changed it! Did you not get an email about it?</p><p></p><p><em>Further to our recent emails I am writing to let you know of a change to the structure and format of your upcoming virtual assessment centre.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The exercise that you'll be completing has changed from a research exercise and presentation to a <strong>commercial interview</strong>. In place of the preparation time you will be given all the required information 5 minutes before your interview starts. We appreciate that this is a change from what you were expecting; it has been introduced to allow us to assess your own real-time reasoning and to give you a greater opportunity to showcase your analytical skills, knowledge of Osborne Clarke and the legal sector, verbal communication and business awareness and understanding.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>This change also reduces the amount of time that you need to allocate to the virtual assessment centre.</em></p><p></p><p>My guess is they had a much higher volume of applications this year (each AC I’ve been too they have said they had at least 1,000 more applicants than normal, thanks AI) and they want to halve the time to screen more people.</p><p></p><p>Edit: to add, I think we will see these short prep time exercises more to overcome the AI issues. The job really does demand us to be able to think on our feet after all!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="johnsmith, post: 242918, member: 42430"] They changed it! Did you not get an email about it? [I]Further to our recent emails I am writing to let you know of a change to the structure and format of your upcoming virtual assessment centre. The exercise that you'll be completing has changed from a research exercise and presentation to a [B]commercial interview[/B]. In place of the preparation time you will be given all the required information 5 minutes before your interview starts. We appreciate that this is a change from what you were expecting; it has been introduced to allow us to assess your own real-time reasoning and to give you a greater opportunity to showcase your analytical skills, knowledge of Osborne Clarke and the legal sector, verbal communication and business awareness and understanding. This change also reduces the amount of time that you need to allocate to the virtual assessment centre.[/I] My guess is they had a much higher volume of applications this year (each AC I’ve been too they have said they had at least 1,000 more applicants than normal, thanks AI) and they want to halve the time to screen more people. Edit: to add, I think we will see these short prep time exercises more to overcome the AI issues. The job really does demand us to be able to think on our feet after all! [/QUOTE]
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