Vacation Scheme Applications - Official Thread 2009!

It's hard to know what firms are looking for and sadly, I might not be that.

Well done!!!

Me tooo! I actually screamed with excitement when I read the e-mail (how lame!!) I'm so pleased though. Which office?

I'd forgot that I had picked an Easter Vac Scheme as well as the Summer one for Cobbetts. I got all confused when it said "Thank you for you application for the Easter Vacation Scheme." Hehe.

Cobbetts interview!!! first one!!!!

I got an interview at Cobbetts too! (also for easter scheme, although I put down both easter and summer). Mine's in manc.

Can't see any tips or anything on the wikijobs site, eeek.

Has anyone here had an interview at Cobbetts before?

I need to buy a suit too....

xxx

Well done!!!

Me tooo! I actually screamed with excitement when I read the e-mail (how lame!!) I'm so pleased though. Which office?

I'd forgot that I had picked an Easter Vac Scheme as well as the Summer one for Cobbetts. I got all confused when it said "Thank you for you application for the Easter Vacation Scheme." Hehe.

I'm a graduate, who has had a vacation scheme with CC in my 2nd year summer, and having experienced that, amongst other things, decided that a MC firm wasn't for me. I have since then been spending a lot of time and effort into mapping out a route into law that suits me as an individual better and have gained a lot of experience and insight on the way.

I noticed that! Some people just seem to slide casually into an enormous number of vac scheme offers from loads of top firms. The only ones I seem to do any good at are ones that have no kind of assessment centre or commercial exercise and just discuss you CV lol. My Jones Day interview talked about the challenges of horse-riding because the interviewer had a horse, and my Stephenson Harwood interviewer lived fairly near me originally and her brother was a chicken farmer, so she was quite interested in my pet goose Janet. Utter madness.

a lot of people are talking about seemingly impressive candidates that get a load of rejections - out of interest, do you think when you actually apply might be an important factor?
say if you're keen and send them off in say october, as opposed to mid december, would you be in a better position or would it be irrelevant?

a lot of people are talking about seemingly impressive candidates that get a load of rejections - out of interest, do you think when you actually apply might be an important factor?
say if you're keen and send them off in say october, as opposed to mid december, would you be in a better position or would it be irrelevant?

congratulations Lottie! Where is yours? Mine's In Manchester! Am very pleased, never been to an assessment centre before though, scary! also pcicked Easter and Summer Vac Schemes (mainly cos summer vac scheme assessment dates are in the middle of my exams!)

I find the site depressing because it suggests that multiple vacation scheme places are being given to people from crap universities who can't spell "definitely" ( definatly !!) and other fairly easy words. I'll bet you are all pretty grateful for spellcheck!!

a lot of people are talking about seemingly impressive candidates that get a load of rejections - out of interest, do you think when you actually apply might be an important factor?
say if you're keen and send them off in say october, as opposed to mid december, would you be in a better position or would it be irrelevant?

can i ask some quick advice? i have 2 offers but the dates clash. iv been put onto the earlier scheme at olswang but if i could switch to the later one, i could do both vac schemes. do u think olswang would let me do this? and if i phone up, should i tell the truth and say it's because i have another offer (and hence lead them to query how committed i am to olswang) or lie and say i have a family holiday booked (which would sound suspicious since i only got my offer yesterday and told her that the date was fine)