No idea about the other firms - its all a waiting game!
The only reason I am duibious about that far off date of the 15th is that every other year they were making calls the day after the interviews even on Saturday mornings!!
But as you suggest there is no point in being overly pesimistic!
PS: Do most of you have your Fe1's done?
PS: Do most of you have your Fe1's done?
nope, havent even started....its not a requirment in order for one to get an offer by any stretch of the imagination....im still in college
Although it's not a requirement to have your FE1s done when applying especially to the big firms, I think having passed your FE1s now is an advantage. Some firms specified that they only wanted people who had finished the FE1s to apply to them. Some firms were even looking for people to start in January 2009, so of course you must have had the FE1s taken by now! Thanks to this current economic climate, I don't think many firms are able to look very far into the future and offer traineeships past 2010, pushing it at 2011 (although I know MOP gave the option of a 2012 traineeship on their forms). I think it's a great advantage to be able to say to any firm, 'Yep FE1s are in the bag, I can start tomorrow if you want', rather than (in my case), 'Well, I'm in my final year now, so I got to finish that, then go sit the Fe1s, that's going to take a while, then I'll might <read: will take> a few months off and go travelling and relax before I come back to join you and leave my life at the door of this office'.
ive sent you a personal msg
For those of you who have interviews lined up or those who were luckily enough to get Arthur Cox interviews, may I ask how many of ye have a degree? And unless you think this is too personal, why do you think YOU got chosen out of hundreds of CVs for the interview?
Personally, I know I have the potential to make a great solicitor and I feel that this comes across well on paper. I have good grades, have bucketloads of extra-cir activities, debating and moot experiences, proven great communication and teamwork skills yada yada yada BUT I'm only in my final year of a degree. And I believe when my CV is lined up against somebody who has the same level of experiences, similar interests etc but they have a degree or a LLM , I believe that any firm, big or small, will chose them. It would seem idiotic to do otherwise.
I don't know how much truth is in my belief, perhaps I'm just bitter after getting another PFO! Maybe I shouldn't be a solicitor after all...
When did Beauchamps send out their letters. I haven't heard anything from them at all which is probably a bad sign in itself but if the letters have been out for days, i'd like to email them and find out what's going on!
best of luck to all waiting to hear back on 2nd interviews - try not to fret too much. if they want you, they will stalk you. at least that's what they did to people i know who got offered traineeships in AC
Hi,
I've just found this thread and I'm in the middle of the application process too.
The whole process is an awful pain in the This post will be deleted if not edited to remove bad language! Luckily, I did a couple of internships in the summer and got a couple of offers, but I'm sending around other application forms at the moment. Got a PFO from McCann's, but got second interview with AC, which I'm happy with.
I've seen Maples and Calder mentioned a few times on this thread. People, if you get an offer from any other firm in Ireland, do NOT join M&C (this sounds like a bitter rant from someone who interned there and didn't get the offer, but it's not). I'd be happy to explain why to anyone via Private Message, but don't want to get too specific on a public forum. By the way, I've heard a rumour that they pay trainees top Dublin salaries, and they mentioned at their Open Evening that they pay the most - this is not true. It's actually less than the Big 5 salaries, with the exception of MOP, which is the smallest.
Best of luck to everyone with the applications, interviews etc - hopefully we'll all get traineeships and then we can go back to drinking our way through our final year of college
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