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Old 19-03-2018, 09:03 AM
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Yeah these days, barring connections, bakers tend to be more academically selective as compared to CC.
Not true at all.

Baker takes in from variety of schools and results. Many are from second and third tier universities.

Let’s just say that connections play a BIG part to enter.

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I used to assign trainees and young associates work.

But I am embarrassed to tell you the things I used to do.

When you want to fire people, it gets very messy.

So instead, we make life very difficult for them. We humiliate them in meetings, we tell them they are not performing, we reshuffle the structure and put junior people as their bosses. Eventually they cannot ‘tahan’ and they will leave themselves.

My point of story is that it doesn’t matter you are FCH, Part B Top dog.

End of day, you work only matters little if we don’t value you as a person.

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Old 19-03-2018, 09:18 AM
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Your boss drives only Mercedes? Mine drives Aston Martin...

Anyway keep the rants coming. It makes my day to read how we are all in this together
Ya agreed. Feel so good when I am reading it and know there are people together with me. Is like my break time to relieve myself from HELL.

Anyway is 1/4 of the year already. hahaha

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I used to assign trainees and young associates work.

But I am embarrassed to tell you the things I used to do.

When you want to fire people, it gets very messy.

So instead, we make life very difficult for them. We humiliate them in meetings, we tell them they are not performing, we reshuffle the structure and put junior people as their bosses. Eventually they cannot ‘tahan’ and they will leave themselves.

My point of story is that it doesn’t matter you are FCH, Part B Top dog.

End of day, you work only matters little if we don’t value you as a person.


Just want to know, are you from big firm? Why is it that the firm from the start already want to or know will fire the people and your still take in them? Why not just leave them outside to survive or find their own path? Taking them in and then throwing them out is like more inhumane.
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Old 19-03-2018, 09:39 AM
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Just want to know, are you from big firm? Why is it that the firm from the start already want to or know will fire the people and your still take in them? Why not just leave them outside to survive or find their own path? Taking them in and then throwing them out is like more inhumane.
Many factors including poor interviewing skills by myself and management. We aren’t trained HR personnel, we just see a warm body with good grades, school, academics, who could do the work, or they are children of our clients and we take them in. It’s just really poor judgement on many occasions. Compared to companies outside, many law firms do not have proper HR that is capable of identifying job fit. HR is just a admin department.

Plus the intensity of work and stress makes senior people go inhumane. Also bad business outlook which requires us to cut headcount down the road so such games are played.

There’s nothing wrong with the trainees or associates for most cases. I am not saying that grades matter or not. I am sharing this because I find some posters here are so obsessed that grades will take you places. Sorry but no. That said, if your parents/ relatives are the firm clients, your treatment will be much better.

That’s why I said I am embarrassed to share these confessions.
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Old 19-03-2018, 11:05 AM
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I used to assign trainees and young associates work.

But I am embarrassed to tell you the things I used to do.

When you want to fire people, it gets very messy.

So instead, we make life very difficult for them. We humiliate them in meetings, we tell them they are not performing, we reshuffle the structure and put junior people as their bosses. Eventually they cannot ‘tahan’ and they will leave themselves.

My point of story is that it doesn’t matter you are FCH, Part B Top dog.

End of day, you work only matters little if we don’t value you as a person.
sounds like copy paste from facebook post
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Old 19-03-2018, 07:45 PM
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Not true at all.

Baker takes in from variety of schools and results. Many are from second and third tier universities.

Let’s just say that connections play a BIG part to enter.
Almost everyone I know in A&G got in by connections. Of course there’s the good half whom were former deans listers and mooters, then there’s the really obviously connected half with 2:2s from XYZ uni
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Almost everyone I know in A&G got in by connections. Of course there’s the good half whom were former deans listers and mooters, then there’s the really obviously connected half with 2:2s from XYZ uni
It’s a given fact. We all know it’s like that for A&G
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I am 2:2 NUS and I am in CC.
Crossed over from Big4 immediately right after called.
Did alright for Part B, no distinction.


Once you start tc, it is how you work and build connections. Academics can only bring you to the door.

The department and its headcount is the number one factor to determine retention.
Can share what trickery you used to get into CC? Because the LinkedIn profiles of CC trainees I’ve come across are like first class NUS, part b commendation list, plus mooter kind.
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obviously u have not been looking at the right Linkedin profiles.
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