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About us
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.
Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.
The team
The Talent Acquisition and Talent Management team sits within the broader People function and is responsible for attracting, developing and retaining the firm's talent at every stage of the career journey, from early careers entrants through to senior leaders. The team takes a joined-up approach to talent, ensuring that attraction, development and succession strategies are integrated and aligned with the firm's long-term strategic ambitions. The team works in close partnership with HR Managers, Centres of Excellence and business leaders.
The Lateral Legal talent team is a dynamic team that collaborates with Linklaters’ London fee-earning practice groups, and the firm’s in-house legal teams, to recruit the very best talent in the market.
We provide valued expertise to practice hiring partners and HR business partners by:
Market mapping using online tools, refined with detailed research to seek out and persuade inactive candidates to apply;
Building trusted relationships with candidates to bring them into the candidate pool, retaining them through to joining;
Using knowledge of London and other UK regional and international markets to both search for candidates and share context for stakeholders and hiring partners;
Building strong relationships with the firm’s preferred supplier agencies both to drive value and gain knowledge and expertise of the market and deep candidate background;
Driving transformational change of the talent acquisition methodology to eliminate bias and enable diversity-confident hiring.
Your role
Working closely with the talent manager and the broader talent acquisition and people functions, the principle role focus will be the direct sourcing, attraction and assessment of suitable candidates for identified hiring needs and skill sets, whilst carefully balancing stakeholder relationships and ensuring applicants receive the highest quality candidate experience, providing them with a seamless interview and onboarding process.
Your role is critical to ensuring recruitment best practice and diversity awareness and involves actively promoting Linklaters’ inclusion initiatives, networks, benefits and culture.
Being part of a regulated entity, you will also play a key role in ensuring Linklaters’ regulatory obligations, recruitment best practice and due processes are strictly adhered to, including by internal stakeholders and third-party providers.
This opportunity also involves conducting screenings and/or HR interviews with prospective candidates, providing you and Linklaters with a unique opportunity to understand candidate motivations, influence candidate and stakeholder outcomes, and promote Linklaters’ culture.
You will also be expected to become a superuser of Workday (our applicant tracking system) and any AI tools available to the recruitment function, promoting their use to stakeholders where required for internal compliance and recruitment best practice.
From time to time, the role will also involve supporting recruitment for other groups, local offices and functions, reporting and analysis of…