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Is a Job Interview the Best Way of Assessing a Candidate?
In a recent article a senior recruiter argued that a better approach to recruitment would be as follows:
(1) give full specifics of your post prior to interview – this can sometimes be very frustrating in legal recruitment – firms...
Application Forms – Solicitors detest them!
It has become the industry standard that once you are past the training level of the profession, the way to apply for the vast majority of posts, apart from local authority ones, is via a CV. In fact, most firms who have tried to use application...
Employing Good and Happy Receptionists in Law Firms
One of the easiest ways to spot a firm who are ‘good’ to work for and who have a happy working environment is to phone the receptionist and ask to speak to someone. Some receptionists consider this a real nuisance, and I have even...
Attaching a Time Limit to a Job Offer
Recently we have had dealings with a firm who are very well known and established, and have a good reputation in the market place.
However the firm have made an offer to one of our candidates and pushed slightly too hard, such that the candidate...
Discussing Flexible Hours or Child Care in a Job Interview
When interviewing a potential employee for a job, it is important to see things at all times from the employee’s perspective – they will almost certainly be trying to guess what you are wanting, thinking and going to say to them...
Technical Questions in a Legal Job Interview
As recruitment consultants, we are not sure that this is good practice. In fact I would recommend avoiding confronting candidates head on with technical questions.
Firstly, at an interview a candidate is nervous and slightly wary, secondly partners...
Regional Variations in Legal Recruitment
We often get enquiries from solicitors wanting to relocate, and when this happens, invariably when going from the south to the north the salary range is impossibly high to source posts, and when going from the north to the south the salary range...
Flexible Hours and the Legal Profession
I often have conversations with senior partners of law firms who ask me to find them lawyers who are willing to work hard, be committed to their firm, and show entrepreneurial flair and determination. However they do not want anyone lightweight...
Open Plan Offices and Solicitors
Open plan offices are the bane of our lives as recruiters. Some firms insist on them, as it is good for the boss – he sits in a nice large office at the end of the hall containing the workers, and has a significant amount of credibility....
Bonus Schemes – love them or hate them
Bonus schemes are either loathed or hated in equal proportion by solicitors. I recently read an article about recruitment consultant’s salaries, which was talking about the average bonus given to consultants and the way it was done.
It...