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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.
Eploy is trusted by many law firms to manage the online recruitment of legal professionals, support staff, early careers and business services.
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Teams specialising in legal sector recruitment primarily rely on three main channels - Professional Social Networks, Employee Referrals and Careers Sites 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. This can have a major impact on a company's cost of hire. ATS/CRM systems have increased in usage to 52% to find more warm talent in their databases.
When we look at how Legal recruiters are approaching talent attraction the Sourcing Quadrant shows us those channels which are working best to deliver quality and quantity of candidates. Professional Social Networks stand out as the leader on quality and quantity combined. Employee Referrals stand out for quality of candidates. 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 falls a little short in the Legal sector, despite being used by over 85% in the sector. Candidate experience is key and can work to nurture relationships and make successful hires.
Source: 2023 UK Candidate Attraction Report
Legal recruitment is expected to rise by 55% across the course of the year. Finding and attracting candidates from within the sector looks set to continue with its challenges, and legal recruitment marketing budgets do go some way to aligning with the anticipated increase but it could be a case of having to do more with less! 27% believe recruitment marketing budgets will increase (down from 50% last year) and 23% see a reduction in budgets in the next 12 months. 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 a number of hiring challenges - scarcity of qualified candidates, lack of brand awareness, competitors being more desirable and being unable to advertise salaries. Having the ability to regularly monitor and measure the effectiveness of sourcing channels becomes all the more important to counteract 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.
Eploy has helped to reduce our reliance on third party recruitment agency services and has improved our service to candidates by allowing us to deploy resources and budgets more efficiently..
Paul McNulty, Former Head of Talent
Matalan
