Official Vacation Scheme Thread 2015!!!

PFO from HSF with a lengthy email about what they are looking for. "There are many more high calibre applicants than we can accommodate and you should not be unduly discouraged." Kinda hard not to be discouraged with all PFOs so far.

Congrats! is this vac scheme or TC? I still haven't anything since my online application.....uh-oh!

Hi would I be able to PM you about this aswell please?

Thanks

I did my interview last Thursday for the Birmingham office and I haven't heard anything back yet.

Am I right in thinkings if successful your on the scheme without having to attend a interview?

Had mine today, you can't really prepare for it.. Just make sure you can back up/expand upon everything on your application form. Good luck!


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Well done

Congrats!

Congrats - you are on a roll

Still haven't heard a single thing from Macfarlanes...

Would you mind sharing whether the written test was commercial awareness based ?

There was no written test so not entirely sure what you mean?


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Strange I was told that there was a written test .....what was the format for your 2 hours then ?

I've been as well and there was definitely no written test and my invite didn't say there would be one. It said 'commercial awareness task' if that's what you might have read? There's a commercial interview which is pretty relaxed and a competency one with a couple of partners, the firm were lovely as well so I wouldn't worry too much

Does anyone know if Shearman & Sterling have filled their summer vac scheme places? Have accepted a place on their first summer scheme but in hindsight would much prefer to be on the second. Alternatively, anyone got any thoughts or advice?

Any DLA Londoners still waiting to hear back post AC? The suspense is killing me

I don't think there's any harm in asking them if there is any space to move over to the second one, firms are usually happy to do so if they have space. Even if they don't, they're not going to kick you off the first one for asking to switch! I've never heard of that happening before.

Strange I was told that there was a written test .....what was the format for your 2 hours then ?

Has anyone else had firms specifically ask for names of other places they applied? So far they've only asked me what type of criteria I used etc and then today I was asked for specific names which really caught me off guard for some reason… was debating in my head which one of the many PFOs to tell her i applied to

Hey, I've only had 3 face to face interviews (Macfarlanes, Clyde & Co and Travers Smith) and Clyde and Travers both directly asked me for names of other firms I had applied to - they want to test how consistent you are so do prepare for that for every face to face interview just in case, and bear in mind they're not asking to be conversational, show that consistency