First Year Vacation Schemes/Insight Days 2014-15

Does anyone know which firms recruit campus ambassadors?

Yeah I put N/A for them all!

The ones I'm aware of are:

Linklaters
Freshfields
HSF
Hogan Lovells
Weil
CMS Cameron McKenna
Mayer Brown
DLA Piper
Norton Rose Fulbright

Really good actually, was very impressed by it by comparison to other firms I've done similar things at! It was aimed to target first years but there was only about 6-8 of us there, the other 20 were a combination of second/third/fourth years, no assessment at all, was designed to be informative.

It was done in the following way:

- Introductory talk on the firm (Partner)
- More in depth talk about the firm/legal landscape (Director and Associate)
- Talk about seats in corporate, banking and litigation and secondments (3 Trainees)
- Journey from trainee - associate, including secondment to NY and Goldman (Associate)
- Grad recruitment talk (Grad recruitment manager and other grad recruiter)
- Networking lunch (about 10 trainees, a few associates and a couple partners)
- Introduction to M&A (2 Partners)
- Introduction to Banking & Finance (Partner and Associate)
- Negotiation interactive exercise (Associate and Trainee)

Was pleasantly surprised how many people from the firm were involved throughout the day and how many senior people were there. Could only say good things about the day. They're holding another identical one in April which will be opening in Jan/Feb I think!

Just applied for the April version of this! What was the application process like? They've mentioned an interview in my confirmation email!

Also, when did you find out the dates for it? There's no clear date specified on the website from what I can see

Be patient folks. This time of year is dreaded by most recruiters for how manic it is with interviewing and applications coming in. They will also be busy preparing for the Feb/March trainee intake.

I don't envy them. The only time that is worse than this is August/early Sept.


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Rejection from HSF due to not passing the benchmark in one of their tests. Not too bothered, hadn't planned to apply to them for a vac scheme/TC anyway so all is fine

Totally not prepared for this CC AC - and I only have Wednesday free to do some prep work

I'm still not exactly clear about what tests we'll give apart from the case study.
Do we have a normal interview as well?

I'm still not exactly clear about what tests we'll give apart from the case study.
Do we have a normal interview as well?

Case study interview, competency interview and verbal reasoning test I think :/

Pretty sure we only have one interview which encompasses both the case study and competency side to it.

Hmm could be, the email did say 'just one case study interview'. But then the website log in says both - that could just be generic though I guess!

I'm still not exactly clear about what tests we'll give apart from the case study.
Do we have a normal interview as well?