Legal recruitment is changing
As more lawyers and law firms embrace the online world and the growing presence and influence of digital marketing and social media, legal recruitment processes are also changing. While law firms traditionally sourced employees internally or through recruiters and headhunters, this has begun to shift. With more and more law firms creating an online presence for themselves, they have also begun to recruit via the internet. Cloud computing, digital media and e-recruitment software has aided this, with employers now able to access potential job candidates via the internet as opposed to sifting through CVs.
Here’s a rundown of the changes in legal recruitment:
– Cutting out recruiters. The pervasion of the internet has led to a reduced need for a ‘middle man’. The internet has become a vessel for employees to upload their resumes and profiles direct to the employers and for employers to post their job advertisements on their own sites. As such, the process is much more one-on-one between the company that is hiring and potential candidates.
– Online job boards. The growth in online job boards reflects the generational shift to online job searching. Online job boards host a number of different job vacancies from a number of law firms, and can be local, national or international in scope. Those looking to recruit employees enjoy the ease and affordability of posting their job vacancies and once they have signed up to job boards can take advantage of e-recruitment software and cloud computing to see the resumes and profiles of potential candidates.
– Cutting costs has benefits for smaller firms. The costs of recruiting online – for all roles from environmental to corporate law jobs – is significantly lower than using head hunters or recruiters. Furthermore, online legal recruitment has advantages for smaller and boutique law firms, which can recruit from the same talent pool as larger law firms.
– Global recruitment made easy. The internet and online recruitment has also made it easier for law firms to source international and foreign candidates. As national boundaries become less noticeable more lawyers are moving abroad to take up legal jobs. If you’re interested in relocating for work, then online job boards are a good way to gauge what kind of roles are available.
Whether you’re a law firm or a lawyer, it’s important to take advantage of the changes to legal recruitment that the internet has wielded.
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