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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maria d'Orey" data-source="post: 121289" data-attributes="member: 25017">Hi everyone! 😄 My name is Maria and I am very excited to introduce myself as one of TCLA’s new application reviewers alongside [USER=13352]@Gus Courtauld[/USER] and [USER=25015]@NatashaS98[/USER] ! We thought we would start this thread to share a little bit about ourselves and allow you to ask us any questions that you might have about our experience applying to training contracts and the work we do at TCLA. I’m a future trainee at Ashurst, having only just received an offer this summer after completing the summer vacation scheme. I’ll be joining the firm in September 2024 after doing the SQE! I’m originally from Brazil and moved to Portugal when I was 15. I then moved to England to study International Relations with French at the University of Sussex. I realised in my second year that I did not want to pursue IR as a career, but decided to finish my degree before doing a conversion degree. In fact, I just finished studying the MA Law (GDL + dissertation) at ULaw!I absolutely loved my conversion degree! While there was quite a lot of content, I personally found the course really practical (something I really craved whilst in undergrad) and liked the fact that it was quite easy to understand what you needed to get out of each workshop. So, if you know that law is for you, please don’t be discouraged by the process of changing careers - it really is worth it at the end! I only ever applied to vacation schemes. However, my first time around, I had 0 idea of what I was doing. I was also quite late to applying, so I had a very reduced number of firms to consider because most deadlines had already passed. During my MA, I made sure to treat applications as a priority. Something that really helped me was using the summer and the start of the academic year to understand what I was looking for in a firm. I ended up making a list of 8 firms, but only applied to 6 at the end! I’m genuinely really happy about the offer I received, as I think that the firm and I are quite a good fit! This experience taught me quite a lot, but my top tip for applicants would be: please don’t feel like you need to apply to specific firms to make your “application cycle count”. Writing a good application takes a lot of time and effort, and it is not worth sacrificing this on firms that don’t genuinely interest you. Everybody is different! Take a little time to reflect on (and be honest with yourself about) what kind of work you’d like to do and what kind of environment you want to work in - this will already help you discard many options! Then, having created a short(ish) list of firms that you’d like to learn more about, make sure to connect with them as much as you can (attend events, reach out to employees, etc). This will not only give you unique stuff to mention in your application, but will also help you to get a feel for the people at the firm and whether you’d fit in. If anyone has any questions about my background, being a non-law student, or applications, please feel free to let me know! ☺️</blockquote>

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