Senior Recruiting Associate (Legal)

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Job Description:

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of matters for Fortune 500 clients, such as complex licensing agreements, intellectual property, employment counseling, compliance policy creation, and M&A transactions. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control. 

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer's practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with compelling engagement opportunities with leading law departments across the globe.

Role Summary

The Senior Recruiting Associate is an opportunity to join our growing remote Recruiting team at Epiq.  

This is a high visibility role, working with our leadership team to support Legal Recruiting and Fulfillment activities within Epiq Counsel. Candidate experience, brand reputation, and innovation are critical to Epiq Counsel. As such, this role has an immediate impact on the experience of our first-in-class legal professionals and the overall effectiveness of our business.

The Senior Recruiting Associate will coordinate necessary activities related to the full life cycle of a candidate. This includes maintaining candidate data in the applicant tracking database, technical phone screens, coordinating interviews, conducting bar and credentialing checks, and contributing to special projects.

Responsibilities Include

• Legal recruitment – creating/executing search strings and identifying potential talent.
• Maintaining candidate data in the applicant tracking system, coordinating interviews, conducting bar and credentialing checks.
• Entering and tracking candidate information in database and ensuring appropriate parties have access to necessary information.
• Effective utilization of LinkedIn and industry-relevant job boards.
• Partner closely with the Fulfillment team to support Epiq Counsel Lawyers and Legal Professionals as they interview with clients for engagement opportunities.
• Ensure an excellent candidate experience through prompt follow-up, high-quality work, and communication with executive candidates throughout the candidate's lifecycle from initial contact to onboarding.
• Complex calendar management and scheduling of internal and external meetings.
• Partner closely with the Director of Recruiting to establish and maintain hiring statistics, KPI's, special projects, new market launch, etc.
• Simultaneously managing multiple tasks and action items (documentation, follow up and preparation) balancing priorities and ensuring appropriate and timely action on deliverables.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with high academic achievement.
• 5+ years of recruitment or talent acquisition/recruiting experience.  
• Experience in the legal industry/legal placement.
• Experience supporting senior management in large, corporate environments or senior professionals in a professional services firm.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Ability to influence and work closely with others to determine acceptable solutions.
• Experience in creating detailed reports; excellent documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ year of experience providing support in a professional services environment.
• Experience producing reports and using pivot tables / other advanced analytics.

Candidates based in California, Colorado, Hawaii, New York, Vermont, Washington or Washington, DC:

The Compensation range for this role is 60,440.40 - 120,880.80 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus. Actual compensation within that range will be dependent upon the individual's location, skills, experience and qualifications.

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

It is Epiq's policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual's race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.  Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.