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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sj20" data-source="post: 31545" data-attributes="member: 5555">Hi everyone,Non-law (STEM) student heading into final-year here. In the alternative history of a COVID-free world, I would have had a fieldwork-related project during June and July, so only applied for later vacation schemes. The project obviously was cancelled, but it left me with a single vacation scheme at a Magic Circle firm that does not have the highest conversion rate to training contracts... which has left me somewhat worried.I have got a relatively good amount of related work experience, including a consultancy internship in summer 2019 where the main deliverable was on an international energy arbitration of sizeable value. I also am part of a US law firm's accelerated pathway, and am currently working remotely as a Summer Research Assistant for a research centre at a T6 American Law School. I'm currently averaging a low first in my degree at Imperial, which is something of a desert for legal recruitment, and have quite strong, but not directly legal-related, ECs.As you might have inferred, I am somewhat craving the certainty that a training contract offer could bring right now. With that in mind, and given my lack of vacation schemes, should I be shooting for winter vacation schemes or direct training contracts? My deadlines mean that a winter vac scheme should work fine, but I hear that they tend to more be competitive to get on and I do not know if I failed at that whether it would preclude me from applying to a direct training contract (or spring/summer vac scheme) with the firm, as it would presumably count as the same cycle? Ditto, since most of these winter vac schemes clash, how willing are firms to consider transferring you to another vac scheme or a direct TC assessment? Is this a case of contact each individual firm, or is there a general rule that most graduate recruitment teams follow in this regard?As a final consideration, I could technically switch to an integrated masters degree before June if I failed to get a training contract offer secured by then. Any and all input would be much appreciated.</blockquote>

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