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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kay Aston" data-source="post: 182315" data-attributes="member: 36759">Hi everyone!I am excited to be joining TCLA alongside [USER=36738]@Ram Sabaratnam[/USER] , [USER=36777]@Andrei Radu[/USER]  and [USER=36740]@Amma Usman[/USER] , as a Community Assistant. TCLA was instrumental in my training contract journey, so I am honoured to be joining this community and hopefully helping many of you along the way.A little about my training contract journey, and some areas I can specifically help with:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I took a slightly different route to the traditional one, in that I undertook an apprenticeship at accounting firm at 18 instead of attending university, and trained as a Chartered Accountant, before deciding to make the switch to commercial law, so I can answer lots of questions about career changing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When I decided to switch careers, I went back to university and studied my LLB in the evenings at Birkbeck University of London, alongside working full-time as an accountant, so I can answer lots of questions about working alongside study.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I was extremely fortunate to have secured my training contract during my first year of my LLB, largely by leveraging my professional experiences. I was lucky enough to undertake multiple first year schemes, so I can help people out with those too.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I am now in the process of beginning my SQE with Ulaw, and I will be joining Clifford Chance as a Trainee Solicitor in August next year!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Another difficulty that I encountered in my journey was my A-Level grades, in which I achieved BCC. I therefore have personal experience with mitigating circumstances and social mobility, and how to best articulate this in applications.</li> </ul>So, it has been far from a smooth journey, and I’m hoping that I can help out those of you who may (or may not!) have similar experiences, particularly those who may feel disenfranchised due to poor academics / socio-economic background / non-RG university degrees. I know how disheartening this insanely competitive process can be, especially when you have any perceived ‘flaws’ in your application.My best advice to future lawyers going through this process is to really try and take lessons from the journey, no matter how long. If you are getting even 1% better with each time you complete a stage, the outcome will follow. I know it’s said a lot (and easy for me to say now!), but trust the process.That’s all from me right now, but I am happy to answer any questions at all!</blockquote>

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