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Using a Legal Recruitment Specialist

As legal recruitment specialists - quite simply, it's our role to help find the perfect legal job for you. We will do that efficiently and expediently, so that a comprehensive job search actually has little impact on your time in work and at play.

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment places Solicitors, FILEX, Paralegals, Law Costs and Legal Support staff into opportunities with the UK's leading law firms. Our team of experts includes legal professionals from high street and commercial law backgrounds. When working with Douglas Scott you can be assured that you will receive expert advice and guidance from our legal recruitment consultants.

Proactive Service

Not only will we talk to you about the role you have applied for, we will match you to the best jobs in your area and include vacancies that do not get advertised directly and roles with law firms that you may not have included in your initial considerations. We will run all job matches by you before we submit your application directly to the decision maker.

With your approval we will also proactively market your skills to a select number of clients who expect us to contact them when we register high calibre candidates. We do this in a discreet and confidential manner, delivered in the professional way we do it is a fantastic way of taking your CV to the top. We believe our proactvity is what makes us stand out from the crowd, there are plenty of challenging and rewarding legal opportunities out there but sometimes you have got to knock on the doors to find them.

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We support our candidates every step of the way providing valuable career advice; interview tips; professional industry insights; skills development and of course keep them updated on the latest legal positions in the marketplace. Douglas Scott provide all the legal know-how and know-who you could possibly need.

Whether it is a sideways or upwards move, high street, commercial, regional or big city speak to Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment first. We are as strong in the high street as we are in the cities, we have placed across the whole firm structure to Partner level and are relationships across the regions are mature enough to facilitate relocations across the country.

But before we can find you the perfect job, we really need to get to know you. So, starting with an in-depth one-to-one session with one of our specialist legal recruitment consultants; we'll soon understand what makes you tick. We'll recognise your personal strengths, previous experience, professional ambitions and key career motivators; helping us better match you to particular roles and firms. You're in safe hands.

If Douglas Scott sound like your kind of legal recruitment people, find your next legal job in just 2 clicks, upload your cv or contact your nearest office in the strictest of confidence.

And finally.....

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are a regulated recruitment agency. We have voluntarily signed up to the REC, our governing body that has used legislation as a guideline to publishing a framework for recruitment agencies to work within.

Members commit to observing the highest principles of ethics, equity, integrity, professional conduct and fair practice in dealing with others and will conduct their business in a manner designed to enhance the operation, image and reputation of the recruitment industry and REC members.