When you are looking to advance your legal support career, partnering with a legal support recruiter can bring you better results. Recruiters have more industry expertise, more access, more experience and can do a better job than you can on your own. What Advantages Do Legal Support Recruiters Offer? Provide insight into local markets. An… Read More »
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Does Your Company Mission/Vision Matter in Recruiting Top Talent?
Having a clear vision of your company’s purpose and values is vital in knowing who to recruit and how to attract them. You must have a destination in mind before you can map your future. Clearly focusing on the values that define your organization will make it easier to find and hire people whose values… Read More »
The Integrated Approach to Recruiting
Recruiting legal support professionals is not simple. Candidates must be skilled, experienced, and a good fit for the organization’s culture. Most importantly, they must be ready to make a significant impact on your firm from the first day on the job. In the small legal community, there isn’t an infinite amount of qualified legal support… Read More »
5 Myths About Partnering With a Recruiting Firm – Debunked!
Are you facing staffing problems and aren’t sure where to start? Have you considered working with a staffing firm, only to be discouraged by the number of disappointing comments you’ve heard? Myths about what it means to partner with a recruiting firm abound in the human resources world. But partnering with the right staffing firm… Read More »
How to Speed Up Your Hiring Process
In past posts, we’ve talked about the importance of a planned interview process in avoiding major recruiting problems, including the loss of top candidates to a process that simply took too long. Today, we’ll dive into the specifics of speeding up your hiring process without reducing the quality of your candidate pool or increasing the… Read More »
Legal Support Careers: Making 2015 Count
As the new year rolls in, most people have the same old resolutions on their minds: eat right, exercise, finally tame the household clutter. But if you’re more career-minded, your resolutions might include finding a new legal support position or pushing your career back onto the track you’ve dreamed of taking. Start 2015 off right… Read More »
8 Questions You Should Ask When Interviewing for a Legal Support Job
When you prepare for an interview in legal support, you’re probably thinking about your planned answers, not your questions. Maybe you’ve even typed “answers to legal support interview questions” into your favorite search engine to see what comes up. Everyone who goes into a legal support interview will have prepared answers. To stand out among… Read More »
Using Onboarding to Increase Legal Support Retention Rates
One of the largest expenses for employers is employee turnover. In the legal industry the impact can be even greater. With the specialized knowledge required to work in a law firm, the learning curve for new employees is much steeper than in other industries. The right onboarding process could be the key to retaining your… Read More »
How to Get the Most From a Workplace Mentoring Program
As the benefits of mentoring become clear, many law firms and legal departments in the Toronto area are launching formal workplace mentoring programs. These programs can vary greatly in structure, duration, and quality, but they all have one thing in common: Without the participation of both mentors and mentees, even the best mentoring program is… Read More »
Why You Should Consider Character Traits When Hiring
When hiring legal support staff, most hiring managers quickly discover that targeting education, experience, and certifications simply isn’t enough: any candidate you might seriously consider has these basic skills. Yet experienced hiring managers also know that “any candidate” just won’t do – and finding a candidate with the precise, specific experiences your current staff have… Read More »