Our Client Services

Our approach to legal recruitment is consultative. We will not presume but will take the time to listen. This is important so that time is not wasted and we can advise on what we consider to be the most appropriate recruitment strategy. The principal methodologies we use are:

Advertised Selection

This involves the placement of advertisements on your behalf from which we will shortlist suitable candidates for a specific role. We will advise on media selection, copy and production and undertake the screening of candidates, initial interviewing and all candidate administration.

Advertised Search

This involves all elements of Advertised Selection, but in addition we will identify, through research and our market knowledge, a 'long list' of potentially suitable individuals to supplement the advertising route. We will proactively present them with details of the role, conduct interviews and then assess their suitability for the final shortlist. This service can be a very useful enhancement to pure advertised selection or pure executive search.

Executive Search

This involves extensive research into the marketplace and the identification of suitable candidates within target organisations. This is followed by a discreet approach to a "long list" of candidates with view to gauging interest in the opportunity and conducting subsequent detailed discussion of the role face to face. Following on from this, a shortlist of candidates is drawn up.

Database Selection

We will introduce to you candidates that are already registered with us. Many candidates conduct their own search for a new role so will use our services in order to be kept advised of interesting career opportunities as and when they arise.

Please note that there is no fee payable by the candidate in any of these methods of recruitment.

General Advice

Maybe you are not yet looking to recruit but want advice on salaries, departmental structuring, or legal recruitment feasibility. We are well placed, through our own experience and insight, to advise, and if we think something is impractical we will not be afraid to tell you.

Career Consulting Services

As a business, we believe we have always been more than "just a recruitment company" and the recent requests that we have had from both clients and candidates to perform more of a career consultancy service has cemented this view.

Clients often ask us to provide a more formal advisory service - either in a workshop setting, a 'drop-in' advice centre or one to one sessions - to employees facing difficult or uncertain times.

In addition to this we have also been asked by professional bodies to present to their members who are at risk or redundancy or just need some career advice.

The types of services we can offer include:-

- Market overview - dynamics of the market / types of roles / different law firm cultures
- CV advice
- Interview training
- Psychometric testing (using the RPQ system)
- Salary and benefits (backed by a law firm only comprehensive survey we produce every year)
- General support and an honest assessment of a candidate's style and market suitability
- Coaching

In the six months since we launched this service formally we have been asked by five leading law firms to provide bespoke consultancy services of this nature.