Does anyone have any guidance on how to respond to a firm asking which firm you have accepted a training contract with?
I received a vacation scheme offer from Firm A but I also received a training contract offer from Firm B around the same time. I decided to accept the training contract offer with Firm B, so I emailed to withdraw from Firm A's vacation scheme. This was over a week ago, and Firm A acknowledged my email and wished me well for the future etc. Firm A has now emailed me today to ask which firm I've accepted the training contract offer with.
I don't really understand why they would be asking this? Does anyone have any advice?
Your response (or lack of one) needs to consider your best interests.
For example: firm B is your dream firm and you would not consider working for firm A instead: just ignore the email, you've already communicated with firm A professionally about why you have declined, and there's no benefit to you from sending them information that's irrelevant to them.
If you were interested in firm A still, I presume you would have asked for a DTC interview instead of declining the VS, so I'm assuming that ignoring is the best approach, but it's somewhat possible that they might be interested in you for DTC, so that could be something to consider.