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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