2020-21 Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion

[HorsesForCoursesNeighNeighNeigh]

Skadden rejection too!

Same!

 

[Sekani Wraith]

Hahaha it's not pretty. I was presenting my solution to possible risk of litigation in an acquisition as part of my case study answer and got flustered and couldn't find the right words to describe what warranties/indemnities would do in this situation, so naturally, my genius brain thought the best way to stall while I could think of the right words was to throw in a filler word to buy me some time, except I chose the word "fucking" for some reason, which made me even more flustered because I immediately realised what I'd just said and started internally panicking a little. So I basically ended up saying something along the lines of "so you could basically tell them 'you take the fucking liability if it comes to litigation', you know?" and I'm honestly still cringing.

Props to the partners for not reacting at all though, the rest of the interview went surprisingly well! Still not salvageable after my trainwreck of a document review exercise, but at least their positive feedback will help me sleep at night.

Hey, I wouldn't stress about this toooo much! This sounds like Bakers and if it is, at the open day the graduate recruitment manager shared an example of a candidate's video interview where the candidate swore loud as hell, banged on the table and closed the window. After they had calmed down, they opened the VI back up and continued, luckily for them the next question was something like 'tell me about a time you made a mistake' and so they used the example of them getting flustered and swearing and explained that they took a couple of hours to compose themselves, did their breathing exercising etc and then came back and continued. The rest of the VI went perfectly and they ended up securing a TC. Moral of the story, you'd be surprised to hear that a fatal mistake in your mind, may not necessarily be a fatal mistake in theirs!

 

[j597]

I’ve heard of a few rejections from Clyde & Co but can I please ask if anyone has got to AC with them yet?

 

[Jacob Miller]

Hahaha it's not pretty. I was presenting my solution to possible risk of litigation in an acquisition as part of my case study answer and got flustered and couldn't find the right words to describe what warranties/indemnities would do in this situation, so naturally, my genius brain thought the best way to stall while I could think of the right words was to throw in a filler word to buy me some time, except I chose the word "fucking" for some reason, which made me even more flustered because I immediately realised what I'd just said and started internally panicking a little. So I basically ended up saying something along the lines of "so you could basically tell them 'you take the fucking liability if it comes to litigation', you know?" and I'm honestly still cringing.

Props to the partners for not reacting at all though, the rest of the interview went surprisingly well! Still not salvageable after my trainwreck of a document review exercise, but at least their positive feedback will help me sleep at night.

For what it's worth, it's nothing that a partner working in one of the most stressful industries known to man won't have heard or said themselves.

Reminds me of a time when I was still in school, final year, and I was doing a bunch of sound tech work at the school concert. Our sound desk was ancient and decrepit, and it broke on me in the final rehearsal the day of the concert. I went on an absolute rant to myself in the sound room in the back of hall that would've turned the air blue around me (think Happy Gilmore +++)... turned round after about 30 seconds and my head teacher was standing in the door of the sound room having heard the whole thing 💀

 

[Numerius Negidius]

Has anyone not received a response from Skadden? If you didn't receive a response yet, when did you apply?

I applied on the deadline and haven't received a response yet.

 

[Numerius Negidius]

Same! I applied on the deadline and haven't received a response yet. I feel like my rejection is just pending at this point .

Ah, I just realised that people have already received phone interviews. I'm guessing we will be rejected soon, or perhaps held as an unlikely backup in case people don't pass their phone interviews.

 

[Adrian_Healey]

Has anyone not received a response from Skadden? If you didn't receive a response yet, when did you apply?

I applied on the deadline and haven't received a response yet.

Applied in late October and still haven't heard back
Hope there will be another wave of telephone interviews!

 

[Lilz]

I’ve heard of a few rejections from Clyde & Co but can I please ask if anyone has got to AC with them yet?

Yeah, I saw on the student room that some people have received AC’s.

 

[Imababysolicitor]

Anyone heard back from Mayer Brown post telephone interview yet?

 

[gricole]

Received my rejection from Skadden. Anyway, hoping for some good news soon! I love the new forum outlook! Great job TCLA!

 

[JayC]

Anyone heard from Winston & Strawn?

 

[LegalLordLox]

Has anyone applied for PWC? Do you think it is worth a shot? Any hints and tips would be hugely appreciated.

depends if you like the way they operate? Have you looked into the firm and what they offer? I would say it’s definitely worth a try!

You will be fine, PWC will send you a game based assessment to complete. Just take your time and don’t try and beat the system! As mentioned earlier in this post the result isn’t about how high you score it’s about how elk your characteristics align with the firms values and work ethics.

Let me know if I can help you in any other way!

Good luck 🤞🏽

 

[JayC]

And for HSF does anyone know if we just needed to meet the benchmark on the SJT or whether our score will be considered alongside our written app? I haven't heard back yet about summer vac scheme and don't know whether that's a bad sign

 

[MJ90]

S&C Rejection today... Brutally quick turnaround (less than a week!)

 

[aspiringsolicitor000]

And for HSF does anyone know if we just needed to meet the benchmark on the SJT or whether our score will be considered alongside our written app? I haven't heard back yet about summer vac scheme and don't know whether that's a bad sign

I went to an event run by them a couple days ago and they said that the SJT isn't checked by grad recruitment and that there's a given pass mark for it. They also said that the score isn't considered alongside the written app you just need to pass

 

[arbitracion]

Anyone heard from Winston & Strawn?

I haven’t! But their email after submission says - “The Graduate Recruitment team will be in touch in February 2021 with the outcome of your application [...]”

 

[JayC]

S&C Rejection today... Brutally quick turnaround (less than a week!

Sorry to hear that Do you mind me asking if you got the 'on hold' email?

 

[anon101]

Just got on the site after the update, TCLA's new look is so fresh! 😍

 

[Abgaal]

Its the new TCLA forum for me

 

[Natalie Black]

Another Skadden rejection here. Booo

Sameeeeee