TCLA Vacation Scheme Applications Discussion Thread 2024-25
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Out of curiosity, is anyone planning to apply for non-law related grad jobs/schemes alongside TCs/VSs in the next cycle, or has anybody this cycle?
As a non-law (STEM) student, I've heard it can be very difficult to get paralegal positions and other legal roles without having done the GDL. So while I'm absolutely manifesting a legal career, I am naturally thinking about what else I'd do after graduating. The way I see it my options are:
1) go broke and self fund the GDL,
2) pure gap year, keep working in hospitality (and try to get a paralegal position)
3) in final year apply for some other grad jobs and hopefully secure one.
I guess the main difficulty in 3 is that it makes vacation schemes much more difficult, and just going for interviews/ACs in general I suppose, and might make it seem like I'm not committed to law. But with 1 and 2 I'd just feel so much less secure, if that makes sense. Of course at this point it's all moot, and non-law grad jobs are hardly easy to get anyway! Just curious to see how others have approached the (potentially) unemployed graduate life.
As a non-law (STEM) student, I've heard it can be very difficult to get paralegal positions and other legal roles without having done the GDL. So while I'm absolutely manifesting a legal career, I am naturally thinking about what else I'd do after graduating. The way I see it my options are:
1) go broke and self fund the GDL,
2) pure gap year, keep working in hospitality (and try to get a paralegal position)
3) in final year apply for some other grad jobs and hopefully secure one.
I guess the main difficulty in 3 is that it makes vacation schemes much more difficult, and just going for interviews/ACs in general I suppose, and might make it seem like I'm not committed to law. But with 1 and 2 I'd just feel so much less secure, if that makes sense. Of course at this point it's all moot, and non-law grad jobs are hardly easy to get anyway! Just curious to see how others have approached the (potentially) unemployed graduate life.
I think AS normally only get back to people that are successful in moving to the next stage of the process. After a while they send out the automated PFO’s to everyone else.
For example, I applied to the AstraZeneca and Covington AS Mentoring Scheme. A lot of people on this forum hadn’t heard back at all but they’d progressed me and others to the VI stage.
If their email said they’d get back to people by the 7th of March, I imagine they’ve already emailed the people moving forward. Perhaps you could send them an email to confirm?
For example, I applied to the AstraZeneca and Covington AS Mentoring Scheme. A lot of people on this forum hadn’t heard back at all but they’d progressed me and others to the VI stage.
If their email said they’d get back to people by the 7th of March, I imagine they’ve already emailed the people moving forward. Perhaps you could send them an email to confirm?
Congratulations ! when did you hear back from debevoise? Was it an email?
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I think it would be and you definitely are not expected to have any direct experience working in the PE industry. Getting PE roles is notoriously difficult even for the people that have spent some time in IB roles at top bulge bracket banks like Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. Getting internships at PE firms straight out of university is another level of competition - one can only realistically succeed if they are already commited to working in finance rather than law.
The way I used to go about justifying an interest in PE was by starting out with an interest in M&A. I would explain how working on transactions involving the selling and buying of companies is interesting to me because I liked learning all there is to know about different businesses and the industries they operate in; and how I enjoyed the process of negotiating deal terms (here, making a link to a negotiations competitions example or Forage Experience).
Finally, I would differentiate between M&A work done for corporate clients and PE clients, focusing on one or two features that make PE work more attractive. Examples include more streamlined deal processes, because PE clients are very experienced and sophisticated, and a greater variation of industries and sectors involved, as PE clients do not have the same business parameters limiting investments as corporate clients do.
Just did the weightmans sjt test and flopped it so bad 😂😂😂
It's such a hit and miss, I've done so well in past SJTs but sometimes it all goes so wrong, even though I don't feel like I particularly change my answers that much??
They're so hard to hack 😭
It's such a hit and miss, I've done so well in past SJTs but sometimes it all goes so wrong, even though I don't feel like I particularly change my answers that much??
They're so hard to hack 😭
Which AC did you go to? Must be PFO for me but trying to still hold out hope..
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It can be anything from the same day or the next week. How long have you been waiting?
Next couple of weeks is code for next month🤣
@Jessica Booker hi Jess, hope you're well. Would you suggest applying for straight TCs if you have no legal work experience (but do have some non-legal work experience - 3 years)? Just FYI I've got a non-law degree, PGDL and currently studying for the SQE 1 which I'm going to sit in July. I've heard TCs are more geared towards people that have vac schemes etc but I've been unsuccessful in getting one this cycle (made it to 2 final stage interviews/ACs).
Well I got a London CRS PFO today so I feel special.
Anyone here aware of any insight days with open applications for the coming months?
I’ve run out of firms to apply for and could do with finding a new one to fall in love with.
I’ve run out of firms to apply for and could do with finding a new one to fall in love with.
I just found a TC offer in my junk!!! I applied for the Paul, Weiss VS but they liked me so much I got a TC. I do a physics degree so any non-law applicants do not worry, I think it was my commercial awareness that did it
Woah huge congrats! That’s GOATed fr! 🐐
That’s insane! CongratulationsI just found a TC offer in my junk!!! I applied for the Paul, Weiss VS but they liked me so much I got a TC. I do a physics degree so any non-law applicants do not worry, I think it was my commercial awareness that did it
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