I should not be sharing this press release as it is officially embargoed until 1 January 2012. However, I am reproducing the text of this in confidence.

Candidates for Bumonseat Feeearner LLP training contracts for 2015/6 should have a minimum of II.1. Bumonseat will consider applicants with lower grades, but only in exceptional circumstances. On submission of the online application form, applicants will have to attend an assessment centre. The new procedure for training contract applicants will now consist of polygraph evidence, an intray exercise, a group exercise, and graphology. Applicants who are successful at that stage will be put forward for an astrology test. Applicants who are then successful after this will be invited in for a standard interview with a partner, a Managing Associate and the firm’s unfair dismissals unit.