Super excited to have been offered a TC - only my second cycle but still felt like the most demoralising process at times - 7 assessment centres leading to 6 rejections over the two cycles but it only takes that one yes! Just here to spread a bit of positivity and give the reminder that even...
Hi @Jessica Booker! I have an interview coming up for a TC with an international commercial firm next week (had a place on their VS which was cancelled) and have spent a while perfecting my 'why commercial law' answer. I remember in the VS interview they asked me 'why law' rather than...
Hi Jessica, to expand on this last bit - do you mean for example if a firm solely recruits through VS they’re more likely to make direct TC offers before the VS, or hold some type of virtual scheme and assess from this? Thanks :)
Ahhh thank you at least it's not just me thinking it's harsh haha! I'm thinking maybe I didn't do anything per se wrong in the interview, but they just didn't think I was a good fit/they thought there were simply just better candidates, and wanted to just try to give me some form of constructive...
Haha, yes I asked two questions - the interview is generally with one partner but I had a second sitting in (as he was 'in training' to be a grad rec partner) so I asked about what motivated them to become grad rec partners, and the second one was about the firm's success in increasing numbers...
No other elements to the day - literally sat down and went straight into the veganism debate, and then from that straight into the second debate! Was literally just that one interview, was not asked either question directly, and can't see they would've wanted me to shoehorn 'Why TS' into such...
Struggling a bit with feedback - just got (email) feedback from my interview with Travers Smith, which stated that it was a very near miss and I fell down on expressing passion for law/TS. Fair enough, but the ENTIRE (I mean everything) interview consisted of 2 debates, one on veganism and one...
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