“If they are not at their desks when the work is being given out by the Partners then they just don’t get the work.”
“It’s frustrating enough trying to organise meetings around everyone’s schedules, part timers don’t help.”
“The Partners don’t like it when people are not at […]
That is a question we are frequently asked. For 17 years we have conducted a salary survey in the legal sector, so we have some pretty good information to draw from in answering this question. This year we have had over 100 law firms from across […]
I recently went to a memorial service for a former colleague that I had also helped in a professional capacity. He was 29 years old and decided to take his own life. I was not a close friend, so I did not know him well, but this […]
I was watching the movie Fury recently, a very good, yet very disturbing movie set at the end of the second world war. In the movie, the main character Norman is a reluctant young soldier who was trained to be a typist but is forced to become […]
I’m not the first person to make the comparison between recruitment and dating agencies. At its essence, we are about connecting individuals with organisations, we are the link bringing the two together. As with dating, sometimes through sheer good luck, fortunate timing or just being ridiculously attractive, […]
A client recently shared with me that he thought they must be getting something wrong with their job ads as they were not getting any quality candidates applying. I had to reassure him that no, his ad was probably perfectly fine, we are just experiencing a severe […]
You will certainly know that your team is your best asset. A cohesive, loyal, high performing team is the best tool that you will have in achieving business success. And getting good employees on board is often a hard-won process in a candidate short market.
So consider […]
At the moment we are in a “candidate short” market for some types of roles so as a result candidates with particular skill sets are in hot demand. This is great if you are a candidate looking at your next move as it can mean there are […]
It’s hard to believe that the movie Jerry Maguire is now over 20 years old. If you ask what was the most memorable scene from that movie, most will probably shout “show me the money!” But for me, the most significant point in that movie was earlier […]
It’s not often that you have someone leave your team and then decide you are going to highlight that to the world, but this really is worth sharing. Recently, we lost Kristal, she has decided to move on from legal recruitment, into a role that allows […]
