When it comes to legal recruitment, the industry is known to be fast paced and if not managed properly, can be a barrier to growth. Firms need to up their game to tackle the growing difficulties in legal recruitment and the retention of talent within the sector. It's reported that 55% expect an increase in levels of hiring in the next 12 months.
Eploy's legal sector ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and Talent CRM is designed to help businesses within the sector take control of their hiring processes.
So whether you need name-blind applications, additional workflows, or support multiple brands or business functions, you’ll find Eploy to be the most adaptable talent acquisition technology that consistently delivers the results you demand.
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Recruitment in the Legal industry comes with unique challenges. These can be addressed by understanding the most effective candidate sourcing channels for the sector and anticipating potential changes in hiring levels throughout the year. Eploy helps recruiters in the Legal sector tackle these challenges and streamline their recruitment processes to achieve the results they need.
Teams specialising in legal sector recruitment primarily rely on three main channels - Careers Sites, Professional Social Networks and Employee Referrals for finding candidates for vacancies.
63% of in-house legal recruitment teams within the sector make use of Agencies for help in filling their jobs, which has not changed from last year. This can have a major impact on acompany's cost of hire.
When we look at how Legal recruiters are approaching talent attraction the Sourcing Quadrant shows us which channels are working best to deliver quality and quantity of candidates. Professional Social Networks, such as LinkedIn, stand out as the leader on quality and quantity combined. Employee Referrals stand out for the quality of candidates; however, they don’t provide a large candidate pool. Recruiters in this sector are having success with Events, ATS/CRM and Agencies too.
Having a great careers site is one of the ways that can attract a decent quantity and quality of candidates, yet the channel falls a little short in the Legal sector, despite being the most used channel in the sector (100%). Candidate experience is key and can work to nurture relationships and make successful hires.
Legal sector recruitment levels are expected to remain the same across the course of the year according to 45%. The same number of respondents are also expecting the hiring levels to grow over the year. However, 65% of respondents are expecting recruitment marketing budget cuts, which will make it challenging to attract more skilled candidates with fewer marketing resources available to them.
It's important that all involved in the recruitment process have access to simple, streamlined tools that allow them to recruit on the go. That's why, with Eploy - as well as getting an award-winning Legal Applicant Tracking System, you get a dedicated hiring manager portal and agency portal that's so easy to use and provides a unified platform for recruiting (and measuring).
Recruiters in the Legal sector face several hiring challenges - scarcity of qualified candidates (70%), being unable to advertise salaries (35%) and advertised salaries being lower than the market average (30%).
Having the ability to regularly monitor and measure the effectiveness of sourcing channels becomes all the more important to counteract the challenges faced. We know from the report findings that those who have an active metrics and analytics programme report greater quality of the candidates they attract.
With Eploy you get complete recruitment analytics built in. You can create dashboards that measure and monitor, in real time, every aspect of your hiring process, providing valuable insight for improving your hiring function.
What channels do legal recruiters use for sourcing candidates?
Finding talent
Which sourcing channels work best for the Legal sector?
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How will levels of hiring in the legal sector change in the next 12 months?
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Legal recruitment hiring challenges
Solving hard problems
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“This connected candidate experience is providing a seamless candidate journey in a unique way to our recruitment workflows. It delivers an innovative approach that supports our forward-thinking culture, embracing new and better ways of doing things.”
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“Since go-live with Eploy, we have really improved our recruitment capability, we have streamlined our hiring processes to become much more efficient. For example, the interview tool removes the need for back and forth e-mails arranging interviews and the import functionality takes candidate information right through to our HR system. With Eploy’s complete recruitment platform, there is less room for error and a clear compliance trail across every stage of the recruitment process. Hiring managers now have real-time data with the recruitment analytics available in Eploy to monitor the progress of their vacancies, and much more visibility of a candidate’s journey. Having a clear view of the recruitment bigger picture and the ability to dive into the detail in real-time is extremely powerful – no more spreadsheets or manual reporting!''
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“The ease of accessing data across our global operations to present to our Executive Team is superb. Rather than spending a huge amount of time generating reports, we now have instantly available dashboards. Our candidate experience is now consistent, as is our way of working, which has been fully embraced by our global team.''
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“Since go-live with Eploy, we have really improved our recruitment capability, we have streamlined our hiring processes to become much more efficient. For example, the interview tool removes the need for back and forth e-mails arranging interviews and the import functionality takes candidate information right through to our HR system. With Eploy’s complete recruitment platform, there is less room for error and a clear compliance trail across every stage of the recruitment process. Hiring managers now have real-time data with the recruitment analytics available in Eploy to monitor the progress of their vacancies, and much more visibility of a candidate’s journey. Having a clear view of the recruitment bigger picture and the ability to dive into the detail in real-time is extremely powerful – no more spreadsheets or manual reporting!''
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Sarah Higham
HR Services Team Manager
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With a strong reputation and heritage offering a full legal service, Weightmans understands what makes them different is their people. The recruitment team identified that they had outgrown the existing Applicant Tracking System which had become outdated, no longer fit for purpose and was a barrier to delivering the best recruitment journey for all stakeholders.
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LOD seeks to attract the best lawyers so they can respond speedily to what their clients want. With Eploy they are recruiting proactively with the talent pooling features, targeting lists of pre-screened and engaged candidates. They can segment talent and refine searches to find the best talent for each opportunity quickly.
