We abhor discrimination of any kind – this has been a major problem over the years in the UK legal profession in certain firms (age, sex, race etc..). Things have improved in recent times and questions from firms to recruiters such as ‘is the candidate likely to want to take maternity leave in the next…
PQE stands for ‘Post Qualification Experience’ (or equivalent for legal executives or non-qualified staff). NQ stands for ‘Newly Qualified’ (solicitors). NB: PQE is often indicated on job roles as a guide and it can be worth applying for roles still where PQE is indicated but does not quite fit your experience levels. However if a…
One – us! Registering with multiple agencies for permanent work can cause problems. If you are a conveyancing solicitor in Manchester, looking for positions in Manchester City Centre, there are about 50 firms you could apply to for work. If you register with 5 agencies, at least three of these may well send either your…
We are good at what we do; locating new opportunities for lawyers registered with us for work and filling vacancies for our clients. Ten Percent Legal Recruitment is unique; we were the first wholly online legal recruitment consultancy, established in 2000, and we concentrate specifically on solicitors and legal support staff in private practice and…
Good question! Partly because there has traditionally been a nationwide shortage of a certain standard of lawyer, and secondly, because finding a new opportunity is not often simply a case of looking at online job boards. At any one time, there may be 6 or 7 vacancies for a particular area of the country, but…
Headhunters are legal recruitment consultants who either source well-regarded solicitors via their network or simply cold call as many as possible via a LinkedIn Premium account (depending on your level of cynicism) to try to persuade them to change firms with offers of high salary or better terms. Most recruitment consultants offer a headhunting service…
There is very little difference between recruitment consultants and recruitment agencies, except that ‘consultants’ tend to operate in the high end market and agencies at the lower end. For example, if you ran a warehouse and wanted to recruit a logistics manager you would probably use an agency calling itself a recruitment consultancy and if…
Legal jobs are usually defined as any job in a law firm, in house legal department or local authority/government setting. We help law firms and in house legal departments fill vacant legal jobs. These can include anything from a partner/solicitor through to a receptionist, legal secretary or general fee earner, although we tend to concentrate…
Legal recruitment consultants are experts at identifying, sourcing and recruiting suitable candidates for legal jobs in law firms and in house legal departments. Our company has over 50 years of combined professional experience handling permanent and locum legal recruitment roles for our clients, most of whom return to us regularly to assist with new roles…
Yes we do. About 70% of our work is locum, ad hoc and interim cover, with 30% being permanent recruitment for law firms and in house legal departments. If you would like to find out about our specialist locum lawyer services please visit www.interimlawyers.co.uk – there is a full FAQ section on the site as…
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is a specialist online legal recruitment consultancy based in the UK and working with solicitors firms and in house legal departments to source legal staff. We have a database of over 12,500 solicitors and legal executives, and also assist with legal cashiers, paralegals, managers and support staff. Uniquely we donate 10% of…