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  1. LegalNim

    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi @Jessica Booker I've been emailed three times now by Hogan Lovells encouraging me to apply to them. I've previously visited the firm (years ago) and decided that it's just not the firm for me (they didn't do anything wrong, it was a completely intangible feeling that I just couldn't see...
  2. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I applied on 7/1 and got a WG invite on Jan 21st so I don't think they're necessarily going through them chronologically.
  3. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I agree, but also, people who over prepare specific questions often sound really bad too. Scripted, robotic, ingenuine... An interviewer won't be impressed by someone managing to find out/predict/guess the questions, it's not a skill they're looking to hire. Someone who gets a curve ball...
  4. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    1. It establishes how you cope with rejection - are you resilient, are you reflective, do you recognise your strengths and weaknesses? 2. It determines how you react to being offended or personally slighted. 3. It shows whether you hold a grudge or get bitter when you don't get something you...
  5. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I asked their Grad Rec if they have an on hold pile at an event last year and she said they don't. She said everyone is either a yes or a no. It honestly confused me because what if everyone they have in their yes pile chooses another firm? But that's what she said.
  6. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I asked Dentons about this and they said they largely ask for people applying to offices that aren't London so London only needed minimal explanation. Varies from firm to firm though I guess.
  7. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Thanks - I hope so too haha
  8. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I'd rather not say. My weak, hypocritical, a-moral ass has reapplied this year and I don't want to get caught badmouthing them on the internet.
  9. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I feel this so strongly. I have one firm that I have been to four open days with, won an essay competition for and spent a day there, various online events etc etc. I've applied for a vacation scheme with them six times and been PFO'd every time. I meet all their minimum academic requirements. I...
  10. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I was really put off a firm by how they handled the whole Covid-19 situation. I had a vacation scheme all set up and then they cancelled it and then told us they're not considered us for a TC, said they would replace the vacation scheme with a new scheme and would contact us in a few weeks...
  11. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Not necessarily. It could be the complete opposite and that you performed so highly in the others that you're definitely through regardless of that mark, it could be that they'll take an average of the other tests and assume it's the mark you got, it could be that they have a mitigation...
  12. LegalNim

    What background checks do firms do?

    Hey everyone, I've recently had a few issues and was wondering what documents/background checks firms do? I'm currently adopting a child and it's caused major issues that I lived abroad and cannot get police checks from two of those countries (one country requires you to either be a national of...
  13. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Forever hopeful hahaha. TBF I did email one firm MONTHS after I'd applied, well into the next recruitment cycle, asking if I could get an answer just so I could reapply (the system wouldn't let me apply with a live application still running) and they turned around and offered me an interview...
  14. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Still haven't heard back from 2018-19 cycle
  15. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    This might help https://www.amazon.com/Tinksky-Halloween-Glasses-Disguise-Eyeglass/dp/B074H5NC16 🤣😂
  16. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    How would people recommend I handle a question about a gap in my employment history where you'd rather not disclose what you were doing? I'm completing an application for a firm where I can't submit with a gap in my employment dates unless I explain the gap. I took a year off work after my son...
  17. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I got a WG invite for a MC firm last cycle even though I referred to them by a different name in my personal statement. It happens to us all. No advice really, just offering some hope.
  18. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    This might be a stupid question. I applied to TLT (London, direct TC) and have been offered an AC, but I never did a Watson Glaser for them - I was never sent one or invited to do one at all. Other people have mentioned being rejected post-WG... Have I somehow skipped a step?
  19. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I did last year. My personal tutor and allocated reference from my undergrad no longer work at the uni and my course had been cancelled and no longer runs, so I didn't have an undergrad reference. They said to use my personal tutor from my QLD instead.
  20. LegalNim

    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Not too late. A deadline is a deadline. As long as you meet it, it's not too late.

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