Eclectic Recruitment Ltd
Legal Recruitment Consultant
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We’re excited to be expanding our team and are looking for an ambitious Recruitment Consultant to join our Legal Recruitment division on a full-time, permanent basis.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys building strong professional relationships, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to develop a long-term career within specialist legal recruitment.
You’ll play a key role in connecting talented legal professionals with law firms and in-house legal teams across the UK, while developing your own client base and becoming a trusted recruitment partner within the legal market.
Main duties will include:
- Proactively sourcing legal professionals through Bullhorn, Reed, CV Library and LinkedIn Recruiter
- Developing new business opportunities and nurturing existing client relationships within the legal sector
- Building strong, long-term relationships with solicitors, legal executives, paralegals and law firms
- Formatting and presenting candidate CVs to a high professional standard
- Taking detailed job briefs directly from clients and understanding their hiring requirements
- Creating engaging job advertisements for legal vacancies across our website and job boards
- Managing applications and actively searching for suitable candidates across multiple channels
- Providing an honest, consultative recruitment service to both clients and candidates
- Coordinating interviews and preparing candidates thoroughly ahead of meetings with clients
- Negotiating offers and managing expectations throughout the recruitment process
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The successful candidate will have:
- Previous experience in recruitment, sales, or an office-based customer service environment, with the confidence to communicate with professionals at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build instant rapport and credibility
- A confident, resilient and tenacious approach to challenges
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a busy and varied workload
- Confidence using everyday IT systems and willingness to learn recruitment software and CRM platforms
- A genuine interest in the legal sector and desire to develop market knowledge
- A proactive, commercially driven mindset with the ambition to succeed in a competitive market
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Previous legal recruitment experience is advantageous but not essential, as full training and support will be provided for the right individual.
If this role sounds like your next challenge, please apply via the advert or contact Chris or Owen for further information.
We endeavour to reply to every candidate, every time, but if you haven’t heard back within 10 days, please understand that you have unfortunately been unsuccessful for this position or the position has been filled. Please call the office or send an email to discuss other potential opportunities.
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