Praying for us allIf we make it to the end of day without a PFO, judging from previous years, good
Praying for us allIf we make it to the end of day without a PFO, judging from previous years, good
thank youI do not think anyone has heard back. They only finished interviewing everyone on friday that has just gone. And they get back to everyone after interviews are finished (unless you ask for an earlier decision). I think they will get back to everyone in the next 2 weeks or so!
Congrats!! 🥳 🥳 What office was this for?Irwin Mitchell AC
Please feel free to PM me and I can help with how you are detailing your mitigating circumstances. I wouldn't expect the need to rehash these from application to application, and I can help so the wording does not come across as making excuses.Does anyone have experience, maybe from speaking with grad rec or through their own applications, that gives them some reassurance that grad rec do actually consider mitigating circumstances *in a meaningful way*?
I spend so much time and emotional energy rehashing my mitigating circumstances in each app and sometimes I feel firms couldn’t care less or worse, they think I am making excuses. I get a lot of rejections post-app and I just feel slightly frustrated at times because I have worked really hard to get where I am, and I feel a bit demoralised if everything I worked for is undone because of unavoidable things outside my control.
So would just be good to hear from others that have had their uni grades affected by mitigating circumstances - and specifically, if anyone knows how exactly law firms consider them? And if there are firms people would recommend I apply to that are a bit better in dealing with mitigating circumstances? Perhaps any that are a bit more holistic in their approach. Or conversely, any firms they’d recommend I’d stay away from in the future?
This is one of the downsides of success (unfortunately)!@Jessica Booker I was hoping you or someone that knows about this could help out. I've been offered 2 VS with large firms, but they're both at the same time. I've already signed my contract with Firm 1 (their offer came 1 month before Firm 2) and they only do one VS a year. Firm 2 is an access scheme rather than a VS although it's the same experience and TC offer at the end. What should I do in this instance as I don't want to miss out on one? (can't believe I got any at all!). I was thinking of asking Firm 2 to maybe move me onto one of their VS dates but also don't want it to sound like they're a 2nd choice. Thanks!
If you have 12 work experience entries, definitely don't add your extracurriculars to this section.@Jessica Booker @axelbeugre
Hi, I had a question about how much is too much to include in an application form. I am writing an application form and the work experience section has pretty much unlimited entries. I currently have 12 entries (I have grouped together voluntary roles and open days/workshops). Is this too much?
Would it also be wrong to include extracurriculars under the work experience section given there isn't a question asking to include those?
Thanks!
The way I always tackled this question was:When answering 'tell me about yourself', should you literally run through your experience or should you take it as an opportunity to do more of a hard sell?
I am in the same boat, and I have seen few people were invited to AC. I don’t want to be pessimistic, but from a small experience, I realised that every time firms send ACs early and leave the rest to wait, it means they will reject whom didn’t receive anything later.HI, I applied for the vacation scheme at Addleshaw Goddard, completed the critical thinking test, but have not heard anything back regarding the assessment centre?
Has anybody else heard back?
Thank you, Jessica. That really helps. 😊If you have 12 work experience entries, definitely don't add your extracurriculars to this section.
Some firms do not care about extracurriculars - it just isn't important to them, and so forcing it into other sections can work against you.
Plus you have lots of work experience to leverage anyway.
I wouldn't worry about there being 12 entries but I would aim for collectively those entries to not be more than 2500 words.