Evolving economic conditions have workers and employers reassessing compensation, career priorities and recruiting strategies. The 2024 Salary Guide from Robert Half outlines timely employment trends and starting salaries for hundreds of positions across multiple professions. Featured below are the key highlights to know in 2024. Cash is still key. Nearly 4 in 10 (39 per … [Read more...] about Watch these hiring and pay trends for legal industry
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How to hire a great receptionist
Hire a receptionist and hire the manager of first and lasting impressions. The receptionist position is a marketing position. Before callers ever talk to an attorney, they form an opinion of the firm through their contact with the front desk. Yet most firms view the position as one that doesn't need a lot of intellectual skills and hire a receptionist without looking for the … [Read more...] about How to hire a great receptionist
6 ways formal job descriptions benefit your law office
Small businesses, including legal practices, often try to get by without formal job descriptions. The thinking is the manager knows what each position requires, and she or he can share this information with job candidates and new hires. Another argument is that because job tasks tend to change, job descriptions quickly become outdated. Neither of these arguments takes … [Read more...] about 6 ways formal job descriptions benefit your law office
What you write can come back and bite
By Lynne Curry Your recorded words—they’re direct evidence. Direct evidence is evidence that proves the existence of a fact. Direct evidence includes someone else’s direct observations as in “I saw…,” “I heard….” Here’s a case where a staffing firm torpedoed itself and their client. The firm’s recruiter emailed 66,000 recipients. They emailed 66,000 individuals seeking … [Read more...] about What you write can come back and bite
Women now majority of associates, record gains in partnerships
For the first time in the history of the US legal industry, the majority of associates are women, and women have also made record gains in achieving law firm partnerships. NALP has released its annual Report on Diversity in U.S. Law Firms, available at www.nalp.org/reportondiversity. The report, based on information from the 2023 NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE), … [Read more...] about Women now majority of associates, record gains in partnerships
Record job market for ’22 law grads but unequal for grads of color & first-gen
New employment findings from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) reveal that despite a record shattering employment market for Class of 2022 law graduates—including the highest employment rate in 35 years—disparities in employment outcomes by race/ethnicity and level of parental education persist, with graduates of color and first-generation college students … [Read more...] about Record job market for ’22 law grads but unequal for grads of color & first-gen
Have you created your 2024 plan for recruiting paralegals?
By Camille Stell We are in an extraordinary hiring time post-pandemic: 3 million women left the workplace in 2020 and that is particularly obvious in careers that are female dominant as is the paralegal profession One in three labor force participants in the U.S. is a millennial 24% of millennials have been employed at five or more organizations 65% of … [Read more...] about Have you created your 2024 plan for recruiting paralegals?
Follow these tips to check references right
You’re hiring and have identified your top candidate for the role based on resumes and multiple rounds of interviews. So you’re set to make a job offer, right? Not quite yet—now it’s time to check references. Sure, you could take everything the candidate has said at face value, but due diligence demands that you get input from managers they’ve worked under at previous … [Read more...] about Follow these tips to check references right
Your interview notes could get you in trouble
By Dr. Steve M. Cohen bio Although workforce disasters usually make the headlines, there are a number of “basic” human resource tasks that should not be discounted. One is the job candidate interview. Theoretically, interviews should not be a problem. They’re a common occurrence, with no possible traps, right? After all, the candidate just wants the job and you are … [Read more...] about Your interview notes could get you in trouble
Prepare and practice for conducting an online job interview
By Robert Half By now, you’ve likely discovered the advantages of conducting a remote interview. It’s convenient for you and the candidate, it’s easier to schedule separate interviews with the hiring committee, it saves you the cost of a candidate’s lunch or travel expenses, and you can conduct more assessments more quickly. Most importantly, and especially in … [Read more...] about Prepare and practice for conducting an online job interview