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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 - 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.
Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Survey
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.
Source: 2024 UK Candidate Attraction Report
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.
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
