The Official Vacation Scheme Thread 2017!

Hey,

I applied on the 4th and got a test link through on the weekend.

Hi all, hoping for some advice on an admittedly quite fortunate predicament.

I've been offered one winter vac and was due to have an AC at Simmons for their winter vac on Thursday.
However as I work full time, it's not feasible to do both schemes (should I be successful at Simmons obviously) due to annual leave.

I emailed Simmons to let them know and ask if they would be able to transfer me to a straight TC app, because I still like them as a firm and would like to come and meet them, but they've basically said no and they'll have to withdraw my app so someone else can take my AC spot.
Is there anything I can say to sway them?!
I've heard of other people being able to do this when they're not able to attend a VS, seems a bit unfair

PFO from NRF. Really don't know what the heck I'm doing wrong :/

How long did it take Jones Day to get back to people following the partner interview? Thanks!

Can't say more than what people have already advised on here, but boy, just wanted to say how I would love to have a predicament like this well done!

That's the dilemma of going for multiple jobs at the same time though. You ultimately will have to pick one over the other, even with internships.

Law is a pretty unique sector where the work experience/vacation placements are really short and that they have multiple programmes over different vacation breaks. Most other sectors will only have summer long internships and so you'd only be able to choose one organisation in the hope of then securing a graduate job with them. Yes, there is never a guarantee of you getting a TC with a firm - but that's the risk you have to take. From experience recruiters know you are instantly more difficult to persuade to join their firm if you choose to go and do a vac scheme with another firm, over their vac scheme offer. You will have to make one of them "second best" at some point even if you don't feel at the moment that neither of them are.

If you get a second offer and you want to experience both firms, negotiate with both of them. Seek any alternative whether it's another vacation programme, informal placement, work shadowing for a day or two, an open day etc. That will show your interest/enthusiasm. You might not get any flexibility for either of them and have to choose, but let's face it someone who has two vac schemes in their back pocket is in a much stronger position than someone who has one (or none). It's a nice position to be in - it's up to you to make it work to the best of your ability but ultimately you may have to choose one firm over the other, and that may mean you have less of a chance with the other in the future where they question your "loyalty" to their firm.


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Got an AC tomorrow for NRF

Don't worry, welcome to the world of commercial law applications, a battleground i've been fighting in for the last 3 years with little success. You're probably not doing anything wrong, but its just so competitive. Most firms have so much talent applying to them they don't have spaces for, and they just don't care. When it comes to the crunch, a lot of it is luck also. I have a friend who copy and pasted so bad that his application answers had another firm's name- and he's now in his first seat lol. You can prepare the hell out of one application and be rejected, then just send another for fun and get it- I've done two vac schemes and both were gained through half hour, copy and paste apps.

Are graduates unable to apply for the Summer Vac scheme, they seem to specify it's for penultimate and finalists but not graduates - any ideas if thats a concrete statement leaving graduates to only apply in Winter?

Got an AC tomorrow for NRF

anybody heard back from NSF?? I saw some PFOs (commiserations), but did anyone get an AC? sent mine mid-october, heard nothing yet.

I received an offer for training contract from Simmons Simmons this morning!