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<blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 187407" data-attributes="member: 36777">My advice is to focus the majority of your time and efforts on vacation schemes. The majority of firms either exclusively recruits from the VS route or have a strong preference for that recruitment line and only consider direct TCs applications for leftover places - and this trend of increasing importance of the VS track has kept becoming more prevalent over the last few years. Regarding your chances of success and the possibility of flunking a TC interview, I will say two things. Firstly, your performance for a direct TC interview will be held to much higher standards than your performance in a VS interview or a subsequent VS-track TC interview. This is because through the VS route, the firm gets to know you and assess you for a much longer period and thus has to place a lot less emphasis on interview performance. With the direct TC route however, the firm has to make a decision regarding a very substantial investment after knowing you for less than a day. As you will appreciate, your performance will consequently have to be substantially more impressive. Secondly, if you fail a TC interview after completing a VS, at least you will have a VS experience to add to your CV. This will be very helpful for any future applications. However, if you make applications via the direct TC route and then fail, you will not have anything to show for it.As such, my advice is to on the most part only do VS applications. I would only consider diversifying for two or three applications, and even there only for firms that are known to recruit more heavily from the direct TC route.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrei Radu, post: 187407, member: 36777"] My advice is to focus the majority of your time and efforts on vacation schemes. The majority of firms either exclusively recruits from the VS route or have a strong preference for that recruitment line and only consider direct TCs applications for leftover places - and this trend of increasing importance of the VS track has kept becoming more prevalent over the last few years. Regarding your chances of success and the possibility of flunking a TC interview, I will say two things. Firstly, your performance for a direct TC interview will be held to much higher standards than your performance in a VS interview or a subsequent VS-track TC interview. This is because through the VS route, the firm gets to know you and assess you for a much longer period and thus has to place a lot less emphasis on interview performance. With the direct TC route however, the firm has to make a decision regarding a very substantial investment after knowing you for less than a day. As you will appreciate, your performance will consequently have to be substantially more impressive. Secondly, if you fail a TC interview after completing a VS, at least you will have a VS experience to add to your CV. This will be very helpful for any future applications. However, if you make applications via the direct TC route and then fail, you will not have anything to show for it. As such, my advice is to on the most part only do VS applications. I would only consider diversifying for two or three applications, and even there only for firms that are known to recruit more heavily from the direct TC route. [/QUOTE]

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