TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25

[kokoprep]

Hi @Jessica Booker. @Andrei Radu @Amma Usman - Please advise

In travers smith application:

Please provide details of your main extra-curricular activities and leisure interests.;
Please provide details of any positions of responsibility that you have held and your key achievements. - what is the difference between these two questions.

For Q1 - I'm thinking of writing non uni extra circular activities.

For Q2 - achievements in uni and positions

Does this make sense?

 

[futuretrainee101ac]

Thanks! It was just a couple of days. I applied mid October.

Ahh okay! Maybe I should be expecting a pfo

It went well, just hoping for the best now tbh lol, I applied for professional liability wbu

Hopefully we hear back soon!! & cyber and data risk!!

 

[Chill_solicitor]

Anyone completed Freshfeilds WG? I need to discuss how it went 😂 I thought you were allowed 40mins not 30???

 

[benb123]

Has anyone heard back from DLA post AC yesterday (Manchester)? Anyone know when we should expect to hear? Wait is killing me

 

[19.mfjones]

Anyone heard back from Mills and reeve yet? I thought they were telling us this week?

 

[EA95]

Has anyone heard back for hogan Lovells and Freshfields vac scheme ?

Nope on the vac scheme for HL, and I completed the application and WG.

 

[MR218]

Does anyone have advice for the White & Case AC written exercise?

 

[rapunzel]

Just received my Mills & Reeve PFO apparently they received 2000 applications this year 😮

 

[Bread]

If an application does not have a separate section for career events but has one for extracurriculars, is it alright to include career events (open days, etc) in work experience or should they go in extracurriculars?
I was planning on having uni society work in the EC section, but unsure where to put other, more law related stuff

 

[sapphireoreos]

Anyone heard back from Mills and reeve yet? I thought they were telling us this week?

Just got a PFO 😭 sad because I thought I did quite well with the assessment, but you win some and lose some

 

[pleasepleaseplease]

Anyone heard back from Mills and reeve yet? I thought they were telling us this week?

just got a PFO from them

 

[tcla02]

Nope on the vac scheme for HL, and I completed the application and WG.

hi i’m still waiting for the assessment for VS. do you mind telling me when you submitted your app?

 

[SoonToBeTrainee]

If an application does not have a separate section for career events but has one for extracurriculars, is it alright to include career events (open days, etc) in work experience or should they go in extracurriculars?
I was planning on having uni society work in the EC section, but unsure where to put other, more law related stuff

Ideally, put all this law-related experience (open days, events etc) in the work experience section.

I think extracurriculars are for leisure activities, positions, and (sometimes) awards

 

[lookingforaTC]

Mills Reeve rejection

 

[studenttolawyer]

hi i’m still waiting for the assessment for VS. do you mind telling me when you submitted your app?

If this helps, I also submitted the WG. I submitted my application on the 2nd of Jan and received WG invitation on the 6th.

 

[tcla02]

If this helps, I also submitted the WG. I submitted my application on the 2nd of Jan and received WG invitation on the 6th.

thank you i can’t lie im a bit scared that they’re taking too long to send it. maybe i should just assume a PFO and move on

 

[VacSchemer]

For the Freshfields app, there is a work experience section as part of the vantage form but there is also space for a CV to be uploaded (optionally). Would it make sense to do both since it just stick to one of them?

 

[Aspiringsolicitor01]

Mills and Reeve PFO

 

[chrisbrown]

Nope on the vac scheme for HL, and I completed the application and WG.

Same here I applied around mid Dec and did the WGT just before xmas and haven’t heard anything since. 🤷🏾‍♂️

 

[Alessio1642]

Nope on the vac scheme for HL, and I completed the application and WG.

For the Freshfields app, there is a work experience section as part of the vantage form but there is also space for a CV to be uploaded (optionally). Would it make sense to do both since it just stick to one of them?

I would do both. I did both for K&E and received a VI invite so assuredly there’s no issue. As such, I think the same for Freshfields is fine.