When you launch a search for a legal support team member, it’s because you need the skills that a legal support staff member provides – and you need them now. It’s natural to focus on what the candidate can provide immediately. However, considering what the candidate can provide in terms of future growth can improve… Read More »
Strategic Staffing
What Should You Do If Your Best Candidate Rejects Your Salary Offer?
Finding a great legal support candidate isn’t easy. When you’ve found someone with the experience, skills, and personality to make a great addition to your team, you want them to accept your offer quickly. What do you do if their first response is “That’s not going to work for me”? A candidate rejecting your salary… Read More »
3 Benefits of Employee Recognition for Legal Support Professionals
Legal support professionals fulfill many of the essential tasks of running a successful law firm or legal department. Many of them work hard to hone their skills and know what their experience and dedication are worth. Yet legal support staff, like all staff members, can benefit greatly from employee recognition programs that reward them for… Read More »
Limited Time to Focus on Staffing Efforts? Here’s How to Solve This Problem
For any law firm, legal department, or legal support professional, time is a precious resource. As an employer, the time that you spend hiring a new team member is pulled from the limited pool of hours available to attend to clients’ needs, expand the firm or department’s business, or attend to any of the other… Read More »
Not Sure What Your Hiring Needs Are? Here’s How to Figure It Out
Hiring can be an arduous process when you know who you need and when. But when you’re not certain which legal support staff you’ll need to add in the coming weeks or months, the process can seem daunting. Not sure who you’ll need to add to your staff as your law firm or legal department… Read More »
4 Warning Signs That Your Hiring Team is Suffering from Groupthink
Finding the “needle” of top legal support talent in the “haystack” of available candidates can be tough. While many law firms and legal departments seek to alleviate the pressure by assigning a committee to handle hiring, the attendant risk is that the committee itself will succumb to the pressures of “groupthink” – a situation in… Read More »
5 Common Red Flags to Look for When Hiring Legal Support Professionals
Legal support staff are essential to any law firm or legal department. Finding the right staff can help legal practitioners thrive, while hiring the wrong ones can lead to disaster. Often, an organization that needs a new member of the legal support staff has little time to meander through piles of resumes or schedule leisurely… Read More »
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 »