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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I will just say, I helped with recruitment in my company and, although we do not do legal work, I can probably give a little bit of insight in response to this. When you're looking through 1000+ CVs/applications, you often get a sense of both (1) when a candidate is elaborating, and (2) where...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I got one almost straight after, that’s unusual! Check your spam maybe?
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I did the same thing as this and talked about a broader trend but by giving specific examples. :) It asks for a topic, rather than just one case
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    oh my god this is exactly like me with DLA! same situation... although I was previously a TCLA lurker and I'm now a bit more active hehe. CONGRATS SO MUCH ON YOUR OFFER!!!!! You must feel amazing! and well done on your resilience and hard work over the last three years!!!!!
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I went to an Open Day with them last year and they confirmed that it is rolling, it also says this on their website. I'd still apply anyway though - I applied pretty late and if you don't try, you don't get. If you're a good enough applicant, they wouldn't reject you just because you submitted...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Thank you both so much - I wouldn't have done it without both of your help!!!! :) It's just the True/False/Cannot Say, I think it's an SHL provided Verbal Reasoning Test so practice them online :) This is so tough I'm so sorry :( I had the same last year and know how it feels, like you...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Thank you!!!!!! I have read an endless number of your comments on here so you definitely contributed to my success hehe so thank you
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    ommmmggggg thank you! i love making friends I'm so EXCITED but sad that it's so far away?!?! all the best in your applications, you so deserve success this year <3
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Guys.... I GOT A VACATION SCHEME FOR DLA PIPER!!!!! I have been sobbing all night over it because this is the third year that I've tried and I finally made it! I still can't believe it!!!! I had the most wonderful feedback as well and I am over the moon, it couldn't have been better :D Thank you...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    LOL LITERALLY i was stood there going "hmmm... an invention to help me everyday life... electric toothbrush? wait that already exists". :rolleyes: In the end I said an online platform to collate, log and track all of your applications for law firms including deadlines, dates of completion, the...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Alice thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!! It's been a really tough day and the B&B rejection was the cherry on top but this really has helped and made me feel so much better. The TCLA community is so wonderful. I interviewed with DLA two years ago and they said that they could tell it was my first AC but...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Ahhhh thank you so much <3 Maybe if lots of people interpreted the 2B's question in the same way then that wasn't the issue :confused: Grr! I have no idea. I just know when I said to a friend, he was like "easy question, driverless cars" and I just thought.... what... oh no... hahaha
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Agreed! I'd completely put the questions out of my head until now but just remembered it. I stood for about one minute in front of the camera panicking and then finally came up with an answer LOL
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Yes me too! Don't let it get to you though. Have a self-care night and pick yourself back up for tomorrow. This is my third year of applications and in my first, I got to three assessments centres that I truly felt were the firms for me, yet got rejected. I cried for days and almost gave up on...
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    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Thank you so much. I thought that would be the case, but so often I've encountered the same questions in WG tests for different firms... to the point where it felt unusual to see new questions in the test for CMS!
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    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Thanks Jessica. Is it usually a random sample?
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    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Hi all!!!! Just had a weird experience with the WGCTA. I've done quite a lot of these for other firms and passed them this season, and scored highly on the practices I've done. I just completed the test for CMS and when I came to the evaluating arguments section (which is usually my highest...
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    Squire Patton Boggs personal statement

    I used SPB throughout :)
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    I know lots of people have responded to this already but I really struggled with that question too. I attended a few events with OC and eventually emailed in to ask whether, when explaining the skills we've developed through our hobbies and interests, we needed to explicitly link them back to...
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    2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

    Gosh I feel this on a deep level. I finally submitted my last application on Sunday and today, I have been sent the tests for TW and Reed Smith!!! So happy about it but I understand how you feel, I just wanted a bit of a break!!!! This is what it's all worth though so keep going and keep posting...

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