TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

pepsicola96

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Jul 11, 2024
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Out of curiosity, is anyone planning to apply for non-law related grad jobs/schemes alongside TCs/VSs in the next cycle, or has anybody this cycle?

As a non-law (STEM) student, I've heard it can be very difficult to get paralegal positions and other legal roles without having done the GDL. So while I'm absolutely manifesting a legal career, I am naturally thinking about what else I'd do after graduating. The way I see it my options are:

1) go broke and self fund the GDL,

2) pure gap year, keep working in hospitality (and try to get a paralegal position)

3) in final year apply for some other grad jobs and hopefully secure one.

I guess the main difficulty in 3 is that it makes vacation schemes much more difficult, and just going for interviews/ACs in general I suppose, and might make it seem like I'm not committed to law. But with 1 and 2 I'd just feel so much less secure, if that makes sense. Of course at this point it's all moot, and non-law grad jobs are hardly easy to get anyway! Just curious to see how others have approached the (potentially) unemployed graduate life.
 

Chris Brown

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Jul 4, 2024
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Has anyone heard back from aspiring solicitors for their ethnicity pathway placement scheme with Stephenson Harwood? Their last email said they’ll get back to us by the 7th of this month
I havent yet, did you find anyone who has?
I think AS normally only get back to people that are successful in moving to the next stage of the process. After a while they send out the automated PFO’s to everyone else.

For example, I applied to the AstraZeneca and Covington AS Mentoring Scheme. A lot of people on this forum hadn’t heard back at all but they’d progressed me and others to the VI stage.

If their email said they’d get back to people by the 7th of March, I imagine they’ve already emailed the people moving forward. Perhaps you could send them an email to confirm?​
 
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