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I would normally suggest planning around a vacation scheme so you have as little on your plate as possible so you can focus on the vacation scheme.But there is absolutely no issue with applying to other firms while doing a vac scheme (unless you are applying on their hardware and during their office hours).Graduate recruiters do not communicate amongst one another. They haven’t got the time not inclination to do so, and also it’s against data protection laws so it would be pretty dodgy from them to do so even if they did (unless the information is in the public domain, like your LinkedIn). But even then, they aren’t going to strike up a conversation about an applicant - they will have far more important things to talk about than whether Joe Bloggs has applied to X firm while at Y firm.
I would normally suggest planning around a vacation scheme so you have as little on your plate as possible so you can focus on the vacation scheme.
But there is absolutely no issue with applying to other firms while doing a vac scheme (unless you are applying on their hardware and during their office hours).
Graduate recruiters do not communicate amongst one another. They haven’t got the time not inclination to do so, and also it’s against data protection laws so it would be pretty dodgy from them to do so even if they did (unless the information is in the public domain, like your LinkedIn). But even then, they aren’t going to strike up a conversation about an applicant - they will have far more important things to talk about than whether Joe Bloggs has applied to X firm while at Y firm.
