How to Recruit the Best Legal Candidates

How to Recruit the Best Legal Candidates

Are you a legal firm looking to recruit a new solicitor or legal secretary? Are you wondering how to find the best ILEX graduate or paralegal in your area? Do you need quality legal candidates to fulfil your companys legal work or law jobs?

The tips listed below should help you get the best legal job searchers.

Four Steps to Recruiting the top level players in the Legal Field

1. Post your Legal Job on a legal niche job board.

I know it sounds so simple but many firms and recruitment agencies are not yet clued into the niche job boards market. So you want legal candidates then don’t post on a generalist board. You will get a raft of poor quality responses that will take time to sort and the likely hood is you won’t find the new member of staff you are looking for. Your advert will also get lost amongst all the other jobs on the board. No if good quality candidates then use a board like:

Simplylawjobs.com

Its easy to use for both recruiters and job seekers. The roles are broken down into Lawyer and Support staff and can be further sorted into area of law and region. If you are seeking a solicitor in Shefield or a Legal Secretary in Liverpool then you can post these details in your legal job advert.

2. Use an Legal Recruitment Agency

If you do not want to advertise directly then you should use a recruitment agency that specialises in the Legal jobs market. These agencies have a stack of quality candidates, local firm knowledge, contacts and experience in the field.

3. Use In House Referrals

You may discover that an existing staff member may be the best fit for the role. Are the member of departing staff if they know of anyone within the company that could replace them. In a field such a law many of your staff will know other people within the industry who could become your next lawyer or paralegal. Encourage a culture that fosters this kind of referral. If possible even include a cash bonus for finding staff.

4. Make use of specialist CV databases

As well as being an advertising portal most job boards also carry a large CV database. Again for the legal profession niche is best. Simply Law Jobs has an online database that is searchable for a fee. Take time to search the database and you may be able to headhunt your perfect employee without have to shell out on a fee for a headhunter.

A combination of the tips above should result in filling your role. It really could be that simple.

NOTE: We have spent time over the last few weeks devising a succinct document that you can download which has some money saving tips to reduce your cost per recruit. Most of them we are sure you will know, but every little helps! You can visit our website and download our '20 tips to reduce recruitment spend' - This document is available from the bottom right part of our website, on every single page & is titled "Is paying too much for the right staff leaving you bitter?" (Alternatively, you can enter: http://www.simplylawjobs.com/pdf/SLJ%2020%20top%20tips.pdf into your web address bar and download from there).