TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

Tom smith

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Aug 19, 2024
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Hi, I am just wondering what the general approach in competency interviews is regarding whether you should use examples on your application form, examples from the work experience section or answers to application questions?
 

Jessica Booker

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Graduate Recruitment
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Aug 1, 2019
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@Jessica Booker If I am submitting an application review for CC can this include both my work experience section as well as my answer to the prose question?

Thank you for your time😊
Hi there - unfortunately we cannot review both sections as part of one review. It would either be the application question or the work experience section, but not both.
 

asplawyer100

Star Member
Feb 13, 2024
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Rejected from A&O Summer Vac scheme after a 3 month internship at their Paris Office (which they extended because they liked me!).
I got a near perfect SJT and have perfect grades + double first at Oxbridge
Mad that there's not even any feedback !
Wow, with your academics and experience it really is insane that they would reject you. You really have to question what is going on in the heads of law firm recruitment teams sometimes.
 

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