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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    what have people written about for the 'introduce a topic you know about' on the HSF app? I have a rather niche one I plan to discuss but I think it might be too academic. What are they actually looking for? I mean obvs non-boring, somewhat curious and well-read people who can enthuse and inform...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

    Do law firms look unfavourably on non-law GRADUATES who apply, as opposed to final year non-law students? I was rejected from Bird and Bird post application questions but before the WG test or VI. I got to the K&E AC last year with less experience but slightly better answers to their commercial...
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    why would u do this have some pride lol
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    why do people use this term pfo? If you got to the AC stage I don't think the company is telling you to just fuck off by turning you down
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    massive commercial real estate crisis m&a comeback as interest rates fall nearshoring (moving previously outsourced stuff nearer to ur/ to ur own country)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    wish i'd made more applications just for the dopamine hit of hearing back tbh
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    no :( have they done all their ACs yet? I think they run 4
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    yh they definitely mean external challenges
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    its usually 1 min for each of the 3 questions no?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    yh that assumption has not been made in the statement.
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    did you do an AC for kirkland?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    why this firm/ why would you be good for this firm? why would you be a good lawyer? tell me about a time when you demonstrated [insert firm's desired character trait/ competency]
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    but you didn't have to cuttt be oooooooofff make out like it never mattered and that we were nothing and i don't even need your love but you treat me like a stranger and it feels so rough ding ding ding ding ding ding mm ding ding mmmmmm somebody ... that I used to know... somebodyyyyyyyyy
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    will it harm my application if i refuse to share with rare? (recruitment)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    like what kind of question?
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said you felt so happy to reply Told myself you were the right vac scheme But felt so lonely in your company But that was love, and it's an AC I still remember
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    emerging from the womb
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    think of key values they stress (like initiative or attention to detail or resilience or something) cos they might have 'tell me about a time when you demonstrated...' kind of a thing as a cheeky third q
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    you ever research law firm deals ahead of AC/ interview and suddenly the whole thing just seems boring and sordid and you feel disgusted by soulless corporate law? Like what if we're all just attracted to this field because it's competitive and selective (and high paying and prestigious)
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    TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2023-24

    yo should you bring a laptop or anything to an assessment centre? like if they want you to do a written exercise? or do they give you a laptop/ make you write it by hand?

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