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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Did you receive this from them today?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I'm doing the Akin test and for part two with the sliders, I am getting this error, "There are questions that have not been interacted with. Are you sure you wish to continue?" despite interacting with all the questions on the page. Are you meant to slide all the way to one side or the other or...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    What motivates you? Please support this with an example of where you demonstrated your drive and motivation. Would it be a bad move to provide more than one example since the question specifies an example? @Jessica Booker Both examples I have given are closely related to one another.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Looking ahead to the next cycle, when do apps for WVS usually open?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Akin test invite. Does everybody get one?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Is anyone waiting for a response from Akin post-app? I submitted quite late.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I have not heard anything post-app, but it was a last-minute one.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Trowers test invite. I sent my application in at 23:54 last night. Surely this is automatic? Unless it pings up that I’m a previous interviewee (from all the way back in 2017) and that caught their attention?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    It's important to be mindful that ChatGPT and similar tools are nothing but a more advanced version of predictive text. It's not the silver bullet many seem to think it is. I also think using generative AI to write chunks of your application is incompatible with applying for a career where...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    What's the consensus on using all 250 words per experience in the work experience section? I worked four different hospitality jobs during uni, and there are only so many ways I can talk about pulling pints. My main work experiences following graduation are all in the region of 250 words.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Rejection - please f off
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    ... those Ashurst tests were something else
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I'm about to do these myself. Don't you get a percentile score?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    I would always spell the firm's name out unless they themselves refer to it in another way (i.e., Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld often just use Akin.)
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    Too late for open days?

    Every firm is different, even if their practice areas are similar. The point of an open day is to give you a taster of that firm. There's no harm in applying to open days, even with some legal experience,
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