I just received this email as well. I applied for the Spring VC so end of Feb seems quite tight. Am I safe to assume PFO?
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TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
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I didn’t copy your post word for word. I can see there are some similarities but that might be because those are the common examples of reasonable adjustments people are offered.
I spoke on the information I received from the graduate recruitment teams when I have asked about reasonable adjustments. 🙂
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Hi everyone @Amma Usman @Ram Sabaratnam @Andrei Radu could I please get some advice on video interviews? Would also love to hear some thoughts from my peers who went from failing VIs to passing. Have received VI PFOs from Clyde & Co, DWF, Reed Smith, Baker McKenzie & CMS. So all tips welcome please as I do not know what I am doing wrong.
Coming in on this late 😅 but if you think an adjustment will be helpful, I think it’s worth asking, they can then consider whether or not it is something they can do. I would also consider messaging @Jessica Booker as she may be able to advise based on your specific needs.
I have previously received questions five minutes before the interview once, but it was for a firm with a set list of possible questions (not all the questions on the list were asked).
Most firms don’t have set questions so this is difficult. But as suggested by others they might be able to offer the questions in written form during the interview.
Yeah I got that too, when I saw it I was immediately thinking PFO.
My number one tip would be to be very specific in your answers. Instead of answering generically or repeating what you have already mentioned in your application such as to ‘why the firm’, try and add new reasonings or build on your previous answers with very specific and detailed examples. This has worked well for me currently!
Also don’t worry about structure too much. I know some people say you should start your VI by saying “there are three main reasons…etc” but often the time limit does not allow for this.
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WHAT IS AN IPO (INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING)?
Imagine you and your friends have a lemonade stand. At first, you and your family pay for everything; lemons, sugar, cups, so you own the whole business. But one day, you want to make your stand bigger, buy better ingredients, and maybe even open more stands.
Since you don’t have enough money yourself, you decide to sell small parts of your business (called shares) to other people. In return, they give you money to help your business grow.
When a big company does this for the first time, it’s called an IPO (Initial Public Offering). They sell shares to the public on the stock market, allowing regular people to buy a small piece of the company. If the company does well, those shares can become more valuable, and the people who bought them can make money!
Imagine you and your friends have a lemonade stand. At first, you and your family pay for everything; lemons, sugar, cups, so you own the whole business. But one day, you want to make your stand bigger, buy better ingredients, and maybe even open more stands.
Since you don’t have enough money yourself, you decide to sell small parts of your business (called shares) to other people. In return, they give you money to help your business grow.
When a big company does this for the first time, it’s called an IPO (Initial Public Offering). They sell shares to the public on the stock market, allowing regular people to buy a small piece of the company. If the company does well, those shares can become more valuable, and the people who bought them can make money!
did anyone not get a test from paul, weiss but also had no errors in their application??? 😭😭😭😭
Hi,
I'm sorry if this comes off as mean or anything ..I promise I'm not trying to be. I see where you are coming from but there are aspects of the situation you might not have considered like - not everyone's support plan has all the reasonable adjustments they might need. Additionally, if OP was recently diagnosed or hasn't asked for adjustments before, it is very nerve wracking because they themselves might not know what they need or are entitled to. It's hard figuring out what you need and what is the impact of your neurodiversity on your life, especially if you're late diagnosed.
Asking for 'what they can get' can also be interpreted as them being anxious and not wanting to overburden gradrec / be dismissed by them. A lot of us were not privileged/lucky enough to be diagnosed early and assuming their intentions based on your interpretation feels plain wrong.
I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings. All I'm trying to do is point out the other side of this situation. Hope you understand and we can all support each other through this very exhausting process!
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White & Case AC! Anyone has tips about that?
They might send out more tests today. I think they were sending them out gradually to people yesterday.
Best of luck for Paul, Weiss! 🙂
My ropes and gray answer is 325 words... do I need to pump those numbers up to reach closer to 500?😭😭
Ideally you want to use the max word count as it’s the only question on the application. 🙂
This forum is like Lord of the Flies 🤣
man can we take smoke breaks during assessment centres
Congrats on the AC, mind if I ask when you completed your VI?
I literally just came on to ask what the usual turnaround time is and saw you’d posted!
So it’s looking unlikely that I will get a vac scheme this year 🙃 Is it worth applying to a few direct TCs? I’m career changer and plan on starting the gdl in the fall. It would be ideal to have an offer before then but I’m just wondering how realistic that is? I graduated from architecture and have worked in practice for about 1.5 years, but it seems like most people who get a direct TC worked as paralegals beforehand.
Working full time and going through the application process has been torturous. I don’t want to put myself through it again unless there’s some hope.
Working full time and going through the application process has been torturous. I don’t want to put myself through it again unless there’s some hope.
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