No - if its been explicitly described as a personal statement, it does not need any cover letter formalities. I would just go straight in with your opening sentence/paragraph.
Yes you need to include a cover letter then someone will get back to you with an interview invite if you're successful (paralegal route)
I received an offer. Did you? I have yet to receive another email from grad rec after my acceptance email and it is stressing me out.
Oh congrats 🥳
Thanks Jessica! They also ask for relevant social media handles - which ones do you reckon are most appropriate to give in the application besides LinkedIn?
You don’t have to provide these if you don’t want to. There is never a requirement for you to provide your social media handles. But if you wanted to, you can provide any that you think are important to share whether that be LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter.
Don't worry, I'm in the same position. In fact, I'm a year above you. Lots of people are in the same boat as us.
It’s really not weird - many thousands of people do it each year and many of those go on to secure vacation schemes.
You’d probably need to not answer your phone and mute emails if you did, and then you risk not being contactable if they are offering you and need to discuss this with you.
You have 60-90 seconds to respond. 30 seconds to prepare. There’s actually a lot of time to respond so I wouldn’t worry. The questions are not hard
email them/send them a messenger on Zoom/Teams chat (or anything similar the firm has) and ask if they would have time to meet later in the week/programme.
I think the test/process is exactly the same for TC and VS so I would be surprised if they consider someone for TC if they failed the test. (unfortunately)
