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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
- Thread starter Jessica Booker
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for those waiting on white and case post AC, login to the application portal and look at the correspondence as it turns out i was rejected on the 20th november but did not get any emails about it. better to know than have false hope theyre still considering me lol
They have just closed!!! You need to learn to give firms time. It’s a non rolling deadline. They gave you an estimate in their email when you applied. Humans are viewing applications not robots I’m sure you want them to take into consideration every aspect of your application including mitigating circumstances. You wouldn’t like to get rejected as they viewed your application without diligence.
hey sorry I didn't realise that they just closed my bad..
Hey I just used the test platform the firm gives you access to and did all the questions multiple times haha
Hi @Jessica Booker and anyone who can help!
I had a quick query regarding one of the questions in my application. The question reads:
“Please detail all your positions of responsibility, including title, date, and a brief description. Please separate each position with a bullet point - 500 words.”
For some reason, I find myself repeating a lot of my work experience.
I’m currently holding a society position and also held one last year, which I plan to mention. However, since the word count is quite high, I wanted to ask if volunteering, such as pro bono work, could come under "positions of responsibility." Additionally, I’m a campus ambassador for a law firm, but I feel that role leans more towards work experience rather than a position of responsibility, especially since it’s a paid role. I’m a bit confused because I typically categorise pro bono work and my campus ambassador experience as work experience. Do you have any tips on what else could be included under positions of responsibility without repeating my work experience?
Another issue I had was with the formatting of the bullet points. I wanted to clarify whether I’m supposed to write the description and my responsibilities in bullet points (similar to a CV), or if they expect each experience to be listed as a bullet point with the description written in prose.
I’d really appreciate some insight on this.
I had a quick query regarding one of the questions in my application. The question reads:
“Please detail all your positions of responsibility, including title, date, and a brief description. Please separate each position with a bullet point - 500 words.”
For some reason, I find myself repeating a lot of my work experience.
I’m currently holding a society position and also held one last year, which I plan to mention. However, since the word count is quite high, I wanted to ask if volunteering, such as pro bono work, could come under "positions of responsibility." Additionally, I’m a campus ambassador for a law firm, but I feel that role leans more towards work experience rather than a position of responsibility, especially since it’s a paid role. I’m a bit confused because I typically categorise pro bono work and my campus ambassador experience as work experience. Do you have any tips on what else could be included under positions of responsibility without repeating my work experience?
Another issue I had was with the formatting of the bullet points. I wanted to clarify whether I’m supposed to write the description and my responsibilities in bullet points (similar to a CV), or if they expect each experience to be listed as a bullet point with the description written in prose.
I’d really appreciate some insight on this.
Is the deadline for CMS training contract on a rolling basis? I was thinking of applying for the insight programme (vs) instead which the deadline is January. I don't have legal work experience apart from volunteering at a legal advice clinic. Besides that, I have run a family restaurant since my second year of university. Would really appreciate any advice.
Does anyone know if there are any firms with a strict zero-typo policy? 😭I spent weeks on an app, attended firm events etc, had it reviewed by multiple people, SPENT TWO DAYS PROOFREADING ( not continuously obviously but at random points) - stupidly made a last-minute change in the work experience section which caused my automatic keyboard to change the word to my last name ( I forgot it was on) - it obviously doesn't fit in the sentence and its capitalised so there's no chance graduate recruitment will miss it. It's so disheartening - I've been applying for so long and it just seems to be going nowhere because I keep making stupid little errors which is obviously my own fault but ouch.😟.
I mean, there's probably at least 1 firm with a no-typo policy (which would assume that they noticed it and I doubt they notice every typo) but honestly even at MC level plenty of successful applications have 1 typo. I think I heard something to that effect from Jessica too. If the typo is really noticeable, they might not be best pleased but if the application is great I don't think they would dead it on arrival just for that. After sending my [top city firm name redacted] application I noticed a huge typo (i.e. it's so noticeable that if in the assessment centre they have a copy of my answers in front of them in interview they'll immediately notice it when they get there which scares me) in one of the long-form answers that I don't know how I missed. They still invited me to take their WG (not automatic, comes after app reading) and after that invited me to the next stage. All is not lost!
Also if you do get rejected you'll never know how much of it was because of that typo vs something else so I think you shouldn't dwell on it and just try not to make the same mistake again. Could also get other people to proof-read it (I don't really have anyone IRL that can do this which sucks for me but if you do you should make use of them!)
That's true I guess - thank you for your reply, I appreciate it!
Re getting people to proofread, I found everyone through mentoring schemes advertised on LinkedIn - Strive, The Hussain Foundation, AS etc.I just did the HSF test and the report feedback is literally the exact opposite of everything I clicked?? Is this a bug or something, fairly sure I didn't contradict myself between answers as well...
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The test is not automatic so you may expect to wait at least a week if they have a number of applications. Hope you hear back soon.
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