Legal Recruiter
Kennedys is a professional services firm seeking a Legal Recruiter. The role involves sourcing, recruiting, and screening attorneys for open positions while ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
Responsibilities
- Identify, source, recruit, and screen Attorneys for open positions
- Coordinate all stages of the US recruitment process for attorney positions, including posting jobs, reviewing resumes, and screening candidates
- Serve as the primary point of contact for candidates, ensuring consistent communication and a positive candidate experience
- Work closely with the Senior Recruitment Manager to strategize and ensure open roles are filled in a timely manner
- Organize and attend job briefings from internal stakeholders/hiring managers and demonstrate in-depth understanding of the Firm's practice areas and business services areas
- Proactively source and identify qualified candidates
- Obtain interview feedback from both hiring team and candidates as needed, and facilitate the progression of the interview process in a timely manner
- Draft offer recommendations to hiring team and receive required approvals
- Prepare and send offers to candidates, including composing offer recommendations for approval, and drafting and sending offer packets to candidates
- Administer and assist with the new joiners' process, including monitoring the return of offer letters, conflict checks, and references
- Ensure candidate information is up-to-date in the firm's ATS and recruitment spreadsheets
Skills
- 1-2 years of recruitment experience in a professional services environment (law firm experience highly preferred)
- Ability to work at speed and balance a wide range of activities at any one time and at short notice
- Highly professional with strong client-facing skills and an ability to forge strong and lasting internal relationships
- Proactive, committed, enthusiastic and innovative
- Strong attention to detail
- Flexible and resilient with good problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate at all levels with excellent organizational skills
- Strong math aptitude and excellent computer skills, including Excel proficiency
- Experience working with various online recruitment platforms such as LinkedIn, Handshake, and others
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