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📅 ECS — 12-Month Roadmap (Read First)
Theme: Compounding Signals — From Evidence to Offer 🗓️ Monthly Themes (at a glance) Sep: Apply & First-Round Readiness Oct: Evidence Density & Interview Delivery Nov: Case Warm-Up & Final First-Rounds Dec: AC Fundamentals (Written • Group • Negotiation) Jan: AC Advanced & ≤90-word Comms Feb: AC Peak & Regulatory Awareness Mar: Conversion Core (Superday • VS→TC) Apr: On-Scheme & Follow-Through May: Final Push & Offer-Readiness Jun: Audit & Polish Jul: Depth & Delivery Aug: Pre-Season Reset 📅 Cadence (how this runs) - Free: 4 × 30-min sessions/month (2 IB/PE + 2 Law) • Replay cards • Weekly IB + Law Tiles in feed - CORE (£99): structure + replays (upgrade link in #announcements) - SELECT (£399): graded returns + labs (upgrade link in #announcements) All content is interview-safe (public sources), structure-only, drill-capped. 🏷️ Session Labels [TECH] Technical • [CA] Commercial Awareness • [ENG] Interview Engine (VTMR™ • STAR-3™ • PEAL-X™) • [AC] Assessment Centre • [CONV] Conversion 🎓 Classrooms (resource homes) - IB/PE: TECH • CA • Interview Engines • AC/Conversion • Replays - Corporate Law: TECH • CA • Interview Engines • AC/Conversion • Replays - CA Hub: Method • Firm Focus • Theme Briefs • Evidence Density & Safety 🚀 72-Hour Activation (Free) — Do this now 1. Skim #start-here (pinned pass bars + prompts). 2. Post your VTMR™ CV bullet in #submit-vtmr (≤30 words; include a metric and a business result). 3. Post your PEAL-3™ in #submit-peal3 (6 sentences, 3 facts with links). 4. Post your STAR-3™ in #submit-star3 (≤90s text/audio/video — checklist confirm only). 5. Self-score ≥8/10 and ask for ✅ reactions (STAR-3 needs one ✅ “Checklist met”). Can’t get reactions in 24h? Use the Self-Activation Form (pinned in #start-here). 📈 Upgrade Path (engineered, not accidental) - Free → CORE (£99): Structure beats guesswork. Frameworks (VTMR™ • PEAL-3™ • PEAL-X™ • STAR-3™), self-checks, Core replays. - CORE → SELECT (£399): Structure in action. Full call vault, advanced overlays, sector pods, priority Q&A, graded signals, monthly scorecard.
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ECS Gateway
🚀 Using Time Wisely — Even During Breaks Free doesn’t include Flex slots — those start in Core and Select. But the principle is the same: success in elite careers is about using your time well, even during holidays. - At Christmas, Easter, or summer breaks: draft PEAL-X™ paragraphs, refine your VTMR™ bullets, re-watch case studies. - The longer you stay in the pipeline, the higher your success probability. 👉 When you’re ready for personalised Flex time, upgrade to Core ($99) or Select ($399).
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2,500+ Members from McKinsey, Oxford, Stanford, and LSE! [Introduce Yourself]
Welcome all! You’re now part of a global community with students from the world’s most elite universities. We're in beta stage, and already have members here from These include the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Stanford Business School 💪 This community has been up for only 4 months and we've passed 1000 members Reply to this post with a brief intro to you Who are you? Where are you studying? What career would you like to pursue? And also what content would you like to see added?? (as we're still in beta at the moment) To re-introduce myself I'm Hassan, an ex-corporate recruiter, I'm here to help you enter elite careers like Investment Banking, Corporate Law, Venture Capital, Private Equity amongst many others. Any questions? Please make a post here and ask! If you'd like to enquire about the 1-1 waiting list please DM me or one of our admins and they'll provide you with the details 😁
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Our frameworks generate outcomes at elite US firms
Free ECS content has already helped some people go from rejection to offers at top firms. If that’s what free can do, imagine what happens when we: – set your exact targets, – tear down and rebuild your answers, – and drill you on mocks until you sound like someone they actually hire. Free = frameworks. Paid = getting pushed to offer level.
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If I wanted a Training Contract at Paul, Weiss London, starting from zero, here’s exactly what I’d do.
1️⃣ Decide if Paul, Weiss is really my game. I’d study their London growth story and ask if I want a career built around private equity, public M&A, restructuring and high-stakes litigation, not mid-market generalist work. 2️⃣ Treat the vacation scheme as the only door. I’d plan backwards from the vac scheme, because it is the pathway to the Training Contract, with assessment primarily during those two weeks. 3️⃣ Build a PE-first commercial awareness plan. Every week I’d track at least three PE-backed or public-company deals where Paul, Weiss or its direct competitors are on the ticket, then break them down using PEAL-3® so I can talk valuation, capital structure and exit routes, not headlines. 4️⃣ Rewrite my CV using VTMR™. Every line would be Verb–Task–Metric–Result, with bullets that look like junior-associate work: fund modelling, credit analysis, transactions, advocacy. That is how you get taken seriously by a team built around Europe’s leading PE partners. 5️⃣ Build a Paul, Weiss-only PEAL-X® bank. I’d write at least four PEAL-X® answers where every sentence has a Paul, Weiss fact: London trainee intake size, NQ salary c. £180k, core seats (Antitrust, Finance, Funds, M&A, Restructuring), and their recent lateral hires from Kirkland, Magic Circle and A&O Shearman. 6️⃣ Engineer my story with STAR-3®. I’d script ten STAR-3® answers that prove I can operate in lean, high-pressure teams: decisions made, risks taken, quantified results, and reflection on how that transfers into cross-border PE work. 7️⃣ Reverse-engineer the recruitment funnel. I’d map every step: online form → interview → vac scheme → partner interview, numeracy test and presentation. Then I’d rehearse those three vac-scheme assessments under timed conditions until they feel routine. 8️⃣ Lean into the “entrepreneurial mindset” filter. Because Paul, Weiss explicitly wants self-starters in a differentiated, fast-growing London office, I’d choose examples where I built something from scratch, not just followed instructions.
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