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SUMMARY: Working with a legal recruitment agency streamlines the job search process for candidates in the legal field. The process typically involves submitting a resume to a legal recruiter, discussing career goals, and evaluating potential openings. The recruiter acts as an intermediary, leveraging industry connections to match candidates with suitable law firms. The steps include selecting firms to apply to, organizing interviews, navigating the recruitment process, conducting background checks, and facilitating salary negotiations and contract signings upon receiving job offers. Legal recruiters earn fees from law firms upon successful candidate placements. It's crucial to choose a reputable and personalized legal recruitment firm that prioritizes individual needs over mass applications. Candidates can enhance their recruiter's support by being enthusiastic, open to suggestions, and honest about their career aspirations. Working with a reliable legal recruitment agency, such as BCG Attorney Search, ensures a professional and effective job search experience. READ MORE >
Legal recruiters offer unique advantages to attorney job seekers that aren’t always available to them in their legal job search. READ MORE >
When is the right time to put your law firm job search on hold? Find out in this article. READ MORE >
Have you ever been manipulated by a legal recruiter? You may have been without even realizing it. Learn the various tricks recruiters use in this article. READ MORE >
Learn how legal recruiters have harmed so many attorney job seekers and why you should never use one in this article. READ MORE >
Find out if you have what it takes to be a marketable attorney in this article. READ MORE >
How does a good recruiter get their candidates differentiated? By creating a Unique Selling Proposition – or USP. Here’s how they do it. READ MORE >
These are the qualities which distinguish good recruiters from poor ones. READ MORE >
This article discusses many of the questions most often raised by law firms about their search firm relationships. There are very few "right" or "absolute" answers to questions about search firm relationships. READ MORE >
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CEO of BCG Attorney Search The very foundation of BCG Attorney Search is built upon the ever-present need to constantly improve. This is evident in several aspects of this business. I personally feel that BCG Attorney Search is the greatest recruiting firm in the world and always has been. We have touched the lives of thousands of attorneys in a positive way and, through our commitment and contributions to this sector, we have helped shape the American legal job landscape like no other company in existence. READ MORE >
Tailoring Legal Search to Meet Your Firm's Needs All things considered, legal recruiting is a fairly young industry. Although law firms are increasingly sophisticated in their use of the legal-recruiting industry, BCG believes there is substantial room for improvement in the way the legal-recruiting industry delivers its services and in the way law firms avail themselves of legal-recruiting professionals. READ MORE >
There are several methods that law firms typically use to make acquisitions at the partner level. These methods are as follows: (1) waiting for candidates to approach them (either through contingency recruiters or otherwise) or (2) retaining search firms to assist them with these acquisitions. Out of the two methods, the one means that law firms universally find to be the most effective is the retained search. READ MORE >
Hiring organizations are often surprised to learn that more than 50 percent of the work done by our professional search consultants involves screening candidates. Before you ever meet a candidate of ours, one of our search consultants has already dedicated many hours to answering one fundamental question: does the candidate have the potential to become a truly valuable resource to your organization? READ MORE >
BCG Attorney Search is a legal recruiting firm that is committed to helping job seekers find the best opportunities in the legal field. The firm is made up of recruiters who have extensive legal experience, with some having practiced as attorneys in top firms and others having worked as legal administrators or recruiters. This allows BCG to represent candidates in a highly credible and professional manner, and to understand the needs and wants of both the candidates and the law firms and other legal-hiring organizations they serve. One of the key differentiators of BCG Attorney Search is that they only work with candidates they believe are stars. This allows them to be selective in their approach and to ensure that they are only representing the best of the best. They also refuse to work with some candidates who they believe are unlikely to succeed in their next jobs. This approach allows the firm to conscientiously serve both their candidates and the legal firms they work with. Another important aspect of BCG Attorney Search is their commitment to confidentiality. The firm will never submit a resume to any legal-hiring organization without the candidate's express permission. They also keep their candidates informed of all developments and help them prepare for each interview and firm, so that they can put their best foot forward. The firm also coaches all of their candidates so they can put their best foot forward at all times. This is based on their extensive research and inside knowledge. They stay in close contact with their candidates, returning telephone calls promptly, keeping them fully informed of all developments, and striving to get them the job they deserve with the least aggravation possible. In summary, BCG Attorney Search is a reliable and professional legal recruiting firm that helps its candidates find the job they want and have a realistic shot at the best opportunities in the legal field. The firm is different from other legal-search firms as it only works with candidates they believe are stars, and that the firm is committed to confidentiality, and keeping the candidate informed of all developments throughout the process. The entire BCG staff is committed to providing first-rate research and professional search consultants include top graduates from some of the country's most distinguished schools. They include former law review editors and federal clerks, and all share one central goal: making placements that work for both their candidates and the many firms and hiring organizations they serve. READ MORE >
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"My recruiter seems great and I'm happy to be working with her. I enjoyed your..." Read moreEric A. GreenbaumSt. John's University School of Law, Class of 2010Great Neck, NY
"I think my favorite thing about working with BCG and Becca was just overall the advice on how to approach the..." Read moreJason FileYale University Law School, Class Of 2004Placed at Cooley LLP
"I connected well with my recruiter in terms of her understanding what I was looking for in..." Read moreRyan StronczerGeorge Mason University School of Law, Class Of 2014Placed at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
"I was happy with how smoothly the process went, how quickly everything was handled, and how..." Read more Daniel SchwimmerNorthwestern University School of Law, Class Of 2015Placed at McDermott Will & Emery
"I would highly recommend working with my Los Angeles recruiter. My recruiter is..." Read moreJennifer RobertsUniversity of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law, Class Of 2002Placed at Duane Morris LLPLos Angeles, CA
"Harrison, thank you! I am grateful for all that you and your team have done for me. While I..." Read moreMichael ThickstenUniversity of Miami School of Law, Class Of 2014Placed at Hawkins & Parnell, LLP .
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