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  1. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Nope. Waiting to hear if I've been invited. I went to the Open Day though.
  2. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Questions are pretty much identical to others.
  3. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    1 commercial and 4 competency questions. So look at the skills they want and think of all your examples and use star to demonstrate. Have notes open on the screen. Remember to look into camera and smile.
  4. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Application portal is open for direct tc applicants.
  5. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    I am pretty sure they are looking to recruit purely from the two vacation schemes, if I recall correctly from Open Day.
  6. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Assessment centre with Reed Smith for Winter Vac! Woo!
  7. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Did mine on the 17th or 18th, can't remember but still waiting to hear! Well done. I think I wrote some advice about the VI from what they said on the Open Day, in this thread.
  8. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    What did your rejection say? I just got rejected as well, citing that I did not meet the assessment score. I thought a holistic view was along with the application rather than some benchmark.
  9. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Been pushed back - should here early next week now! Did you get the email or any news?
  10. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Just completed Gowling's game/psychometric test. Scored 8188. Anyone else record their scores? Edit: Just received feedback report. The score is kind of irrelevant given the amount of data points they take. Quite impressive how they can determine so much about your psychological/behavioural...
  11. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    From what stage? Currently waiting on WG results.
  12. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Congrats! From Open Day: You will have a case study based on a commercial contract. Will need to identify and simplify the relevant points for each party. You have an hour to prep for this, so quite a decent amount of time! (A&O is only half an hour). Mark-up exercise to test grammar...
  13. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    I just completed it and emailed them asking for my report. Will let you know what they say.
  14. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    That's what they said on the Open Day. Congrats!
  15. Ricky

    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    They invite 24 people to one assessment centre for each vac scheme. So I guess they will wait until all the VIs are done and then pick the 24.

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