The Recruitment Coordinator, Texas will support all law student recruiting functions for the Texas offices (e.g, summer program, law student outreach, interviewing process, and entry-level recruitment). The role-holder will ensure all candidates receive world-class candidate experience throughout the recruitment and selection process.
Main responsibilities:
Overall Responsibilities:
- Lead and execute associate recruitment, summer program and law student 1L and 2L recruitment processes to attract and hire top talent
- Active member of the US law student workstream, helping to execute the Hiring Committee’s law student recruitment strategy
- Support ad-hoc hiring programs (e.g., LLM and Judicial clerk hiring plans)
- Network with partners, legal recruiters, and other law Firm recruitment personnel in an effort to stay abreast of the happenings in the legal community
- Build strategic relationships with career services personnel and key law student groups
- Develop recruiting initiatives that impact overall engagement and recruitment across a wide talent pool
Law Student Recruitment:
- Develop innovative law student recruitment and outreach strategies; manage relationships with law school career service professionals and sponsors of job fairs/diverse student organizations
- Arrange and coordinate law students' on-campus interview schedules and outreach events/logistics at designated law schools
- Execute call-back interview process, ensuring timely hiring decisions are made in conjunction with local recruiting committees
- Active member of local recruiting committee to work with Hiring Partners to set meeting agendas and attend recruiting committee meetings
Summer Associate Program:
- Plan summer associate calendar, coordinate and execute summer events and activities; Attend all summer associate calendar events
- Lead and discharge ongoing communications with summer associates before arrival, including employment terms/conditions, travel arrangements, housing, work assignments and mentor relationships
- Develop and implement summer associate orientation, and ensure their integration experience is of the highest quality and substance
- Serve as a liaison with summer associates to address inquiries or other employment matters
- Work with regional practice leadership to coordinate work assignments, secure performance feedback and assist in coordinating requisite training
- Secure summer program feedback from summer associates and Firm members, recommend and enact approved changes to the program
- Ensure compliance with the regional offer approval process to extend timely offers
Additional Duties:
- Ensure data integrity of our Applicant Tracking System, recruiting records for responsible offices, law school outreach budget and summer program
- Annual recruitment budget compliance and monthly tracking for designated offices
- Actively promote the Firm on social media channels, leveraging the Firm’s recruitment campaigns
- Develop and participate in annual regional recruitment projects as requested
- Participate in various recruiter organizations (e.g., City Group; NALP; Other) to increase personal networking, knowledge sharing and promotion of the Firm
Skills and experience:
- A bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Strong recruiting experience in a professional services organization and/or large law Firm, preferably with multi-office and in support of a diverse base of legal practices
- Strong track record in law student recruitment and engagement
- Well-developed and sophisticated written and oral communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to relate to and gain the confidence of people at all levels within an organization
- Able to bring good judgement and empathy to sensitive situations
- Strong organizational skills and must be able to meet deadlines and multitask in a matrix, fast-paced, professional services environment
- Be an active member of various recruiter organizations (e.g., local city groups, NALP, etc.)
Location: Dallas or Houston
Reports to: Recruitment Manager, Toronto
Travel requirements: Limited travel required on an ad-hoc basis (e.g., campus events, regional summer meeting, etc.).
Position type: In Market
Development framework: Business Support
