BCG Attorney Search Reviews

How quickly the process worked for me. Carleen and I started talking in October and I had interviews and got a job offer by late November, early December. It [using a recruiter] helped a lot! I was originally told not to use a recruiter because sometimes firms won't pay for the fee, but that was the wrong advice because I did a lot of job searching on my own and applying on my own and that led to absolutely nothing! The second that I started working with a recruiter I had immediate interest and interviews so obviously that network was really important. Especially for me coming out of state and not being licensed in CO yet, that made all the difference to me! Carleen is great! We didn't have a ton of communication because it wasn't necessary but anytime I needed her she was quick and just really lovely.Q. Where would we rank amongst other recruiting company's you may have used?A. In April, when I first started looking into moving to Colorado I started looking at recruiters and spoke to one. I told her exactly what I wanted out of a firm and was very descriptive and she immediately sent me back 4 or 5 firms and when I looked at them online I realized she was not listening to me. It's clear that she just wanted a big commission because these firms pay a lot more but they were just not what I am looking for and I got really frustrated. When I spoke with Carleen I felt like she really listed to exactly what I was looking for and knew the kind of firm I wanted. Also, it was really sweet - when I did get a job she reached out and was really nice about it and said she could tell I was really despairing and I am so glad we could help. I feel like she regarded me more as a person.

I love the ease of using BCG Attorney Search. It happened so easily and so quickly. I like how you guys sent the link with the proposed firms, and I got to mark up which ones that I was interested in and which ones I wasn't, I thought that was really convenient., the ease and convenience were my favorite thing. BCG is the top recruiting firm, so happy I got the job.

I remember that Harrison Barnes called me pretty soon after I reached out to him, or pretty soon after we agreed to work together and talked to me over the phone. That was good. [You have] all the resources and connections that are required to put you into the circle of firms that I would expect to be shopped to. That was definitely a positive thing.

[My favorite thing about working with BCG] was that it was very little work for me to do which is what I was looking for. My legal placement professional knew who was hiring and I knew very little about the market before talking to her, she made it all super easy and honestly it was a lot faster than I expected. I think I talked to her and then within a week I had an interview for the next week and then I had an offer the next day so I appreciated that she was just very efficient. BCG and my legal placement professional covered everything. I told her what I was looking for, the type of practice and which market I was looking at and she did everything else. I was stressed about how I was going to do it and she completely took it off my plate. BCG is number 1.

It's hard to narrow down my favorite thing about BCG Attorney search, but I think that from the beginning to the end, Harrison and everyone I worked with at BCG was extremely responsive in identifying opportunities and coaching and just all the way around, client service. This made my job search easier because it got me access to a lot of quality opportunities quickly. My queue with jobs that were suited to my level of experience and practice areas of interest and geographic areas, if I had to search for all of these opportunities myself on job websites, it would have been a full time job in itself. BCG is #1!

I think the number of firms I was able to get my resume in front of was my favorite thing about BCG Attorney Search. This opened up a lot of firms to consider my application. They did a lot of the work for me so that I could continue focus on my current job instead of spending all of my time dealing with recruiting. In terms of outcome, for me personally, BCG is number 1!

[BCG was] very friendly and very prompt in replying. It made it easier to narrow my search to what I was really looking for. You are ranked number one, because your results lead to employment. I would recommend you. I would describe you as professional and effective.

BCG was great because they were able to target so many different firms of interest for me.I was actually really shocked because my target area was limited to San Diego, which is somewhat smaller, legal market than other major cities. And I think by the time everything was said and done almost a hundred firms had been applied to on my behalf which was astounding. Just the sheer volume of applications that BCG was able to put in on my behalf was one of the best things that I could not have done by myself.For one, I didn't have to search job boards or submit anything to anyone, it made it so easy that BCG was able to submit everything on my behalf, and find all of those openings that I probably would not have been able to find on my own.Another great thing about BCG was the interview prep. I worked with someone named Patrick I believe, and he was just phenomenal. He, and I had a couple conversations in which we practiced questions and answers to interviews. I actually learned a lot about how to field those questions and perform better in interviews.I worked with a couple other recruiting companies, and they would only find me one or two potential opportunities. Whereas BCG, found me almost a hundred. Other companies did not have interview prep, whereas BCG did, it was a lot more hands-on and individual focused rather than just trying to place someone at any firm that they can try to place them that, which is great.

Everyone was so prompt in their communication with me, everyone kept up with me and made sure to notify me if there was an update throughout the whole process and it felt as if I was included in the process every minute of the way and I wasn't left guessing about the status of anything. This made my job search easier because it was so streamlined and having a place to go to in order to update my resume, having my writing samples and transcripts in one location to send off to different employers, instead of me having the access and having to do that myself and making sure I had the correct or updated resume or transcript on file. That made everything easier having the portal, the website really streamlined. You would rank a 10! 10, 10, 10. You all were the best! I worked with 2 other recruiters in the past and to this day, I haven't even heard from them, not even a phone call or email to check in on me. I am so happy I found you all, I am just so happy!

My legal placement professional was great and really creative in identifying some opportunities that I wouldn't have ordinarily thought of including Davis Wright, which is where I am going, so I think that was for me, the most unique and impressive part of it. She didn't just go to the easily identifiable firms that do what I do, but she looked at other firms and I thought that was good. For me, having a go between that has experience like my legal placement professional, being someone who knew my background and had someone who had a similar background as well and that had transitioned it, helped a lot to have her input in my resume, my business plan and the discussions I was having with some of the partners at the firms I was meeting with. I haven't worked with a lot of recruiters, but individually, my legal placement professional was very knowledgeable and for me the most important part was creative. She was looking for the opportunities that weren't usually clear that they had business similar to what I did, but places that wanted to get into my white collar area of the law, and that was for me, from my perspective, puts her among the best.