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Slaughter and May VS 2021/TC 2023 application
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Have you interviewed any where else? I found the where else have you applied question slightly difficult to answer because Ive only applied to Hogan L for a direct TC and had to explain why just the two lol
They did not ask me where else I was applying. Mine was based on a very economics article LOL.
But I am a law student so if you aren't maybe they are psyching out your commitment.
Yeah they said 1 week for me. Kind of nervous though bc I don't think the HR interview went well. Everyone said they were so nice but mine were a bit stoned face lol.
Yeah that makes sense, I'm a PPE student. I said i was very interested in M&A and was grilled a lot about a specific merger that I had mentioned but I study econ so I managed to get a good discussion around it thankfully. Out of interest how did you find the article discussion
From what current trainees have said, it just seems that within the HR interview they're trying to make sure you treated it the same as the partner interview and that your answers were the same etc and that you could possibly add in anything that you forgot to mention to the partners - so I guess don't worry if they weren't too friendly. Did you have Ellie Ballinger for your HR interview?
Very difficult. They kept going in on whatever I replied. I tried to defend my points well though. BTW can I ask how long you're interviewed lasted?
Did you have article A or B out of interest, I had B. My interview lasted around an hour and 10 mins, just under hour 15
Honestly would not know. I did the WW too. I guess they might possibly since the earliest we could interview was end of Feb, but that's just a guess
Yeah I'm hopefully. But they also have to allocate trainee positions to their VS candidates so it will probs be super super hard. Also I think a lot of the WW candidates did take the interview so I'm sure its going to be really hard.
Yeah so true, I think there were around 50 of us on the WW. But I guess try not to think about how many spaces they have left and psyche yourself out. And while yes there are TCs for VS attendees, that doesn't necessarily mean they will be offered a TC. And with anyone offered a TC doesn't mean they'll choose to accept Slaughters over say A&O etc if offered one. on the WW they also said that you could be put on a waitlist if they liked you but have no spaces left so I guess we'll just have to wait and see
I didn't, my tutor emailed me saying that he had received an email from them to arrange a phone call later that day. He was emailing to ask for my transcript but other than that there was no way I would've found out that they had contacted my reference.Hi,
Congrats. Did you get a notification from them saying they were contacting your references and did they contact them via email / phone?
ah ok makes sense. Do you know what kind of stuff they asked your tutor? Assuming they were also using it to check your grades were legitimate.
No I don't, I did try to get at it but he didn't say. I've heard they can challenge referees a fair bit honestly I have no clue.
