Texas Legal Recruiters

Two Benefits of Using a Legal Recruiter

Legal recruiting is still a relatively young industry. Despite this, using an ethical and professional recruiting company can play a significant role in a firm’s development and success. A legal recruiting firm will help with recruiting associates as well as searching for job applicants.

Associate Recruiting

All law firms are faced with an extremely high attrition rate of associates. Associates are changing firms in record numbers. Because of this, a law firm must fight on two different fronts. The firm must bring in new associates as well as keep the ones they already employ. This increases the importance of recruiting lawyers who are culturally, academically, and professionally suited to a firm. A legal recruiting agency can do this by screening a larger number of applicants and only submitting the names of those who meet all of the professional, cultural, and academic standards the firm has set.

Search v. Selection

Typically, a firm will use one of two ways to fill open positions. They will either search or select. Searching is the premiere way of selecting full-time employees. A law firm with an opening will contact multiple head hunters who then find a number of people who are interested in the opportunity. The firm will weed through all of the résumés they have in an effort to find the perfect match for the law firm.

Selection involves a firm advertising an open position and reviewing all of the résumés that come in. Search has a huge advantage over the selection method because a larger percentage of candidates who are submitted according to the search methodology meet the required criteria. A legal recruiting firm will only submit names of people that meet all of the requirements. The same cannot be said for individuals.

If you have an important position that needs to be filled at your company, contact the Texas legal recruiters of the Sapire Search Group at 1-866-413-2868. Their expert team will devote their energy to ensuring you get the best possible job applicants.