It's Your Move
Why Move?
We recently carried out some research and found that
opportunity to progress, money, location and the
need for a new challenge ranked highly amongst the
reasons to change jobs.
Whatever your motivation is we want to help.
If you're clear about what you're looking for then you
could find your next role in just 2 clicks, using jobs board
technology with our comprehensive legal job search.
Alternatively you may be completely happy in your current
position, not actively seeking a move but would like to keep your
options open and benchmark yourself against the market. In
that case instruct us on a watching brief and be given a heads
up on roles that meet a set criteria that could
motivate a move.
Looking For a New Legal Job
Like everything in life it is nice to have a choice. You
may have seen an interesting job being advertised directly by a law
firm but before you apply it makes sense to contact a
consultant here at Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment. So what
could go wrong a direct application?
Well, you need to be confident that your CV is going to hit the
mark. It is your opportunity to sell yourself, to promote your
personal and professional strengths and make you stand out
from the crowd. Douglas Scott are Legal Recruitment experts: our
consultants produce fantastic CV's that emphasis the skills,
attributes and personality traits that our clients demand
in their employees. We will also add value to your CV by endorsing
your application with our approval, expert opinion that is
valued by our legal clients across the UK.
Douglas Scott Legal Job Search v Jobs
Board
Another thing to note is that a direct application through a
jobs board could actually be a bad career move. It is important to
understand the technology before submitting your CV.
Legal Jobs Boards like many other Jobs Boards rely on recruitment
agencies for subscription fees, agencies will advertise jobs and
also pay for access to a cv database. The CV database grows
as new candidates apply for jobs or sign up to the board.
We have used a Legal Jobs Board CV database in the past to great
effect but have recently noted some negative feedback from some of
our applicants.
Some of our applicants had found that even though they applied
for one job through a site their CV was being picked up by up
to a dozen other recruitment agencies the following day. Their CV
would go through to the job but this would also generate any
number of follow up calls from agencies hungry to get them
forward to other roles. There is nothing wrong with this model if
the candidate gets to hear about another exciting legal opportunity
and is ultimately placed into that role. It is when agencies start
taking short cuts, when your CV starts being forwarded to
jobs without your approval that the problems begin. Multiple
submissions can damage your credibility and also turn clients off
immediately for fear of being involved in an agency cat fight.
Another thing we have picked up on is the growing number of law
firms who are subscribing to the jobs boards too. Inadvertently you
may be alerting your current employer to your job search. They
may be subscribed to the CV database and come across your CV
the day folllowing your application or signing up to the
board. Your initial application could have been tentative but
the damage to your working relationship could be dramatic.
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment will continue to use jobs
boards to source candidates but as REC members we have committed to
codes of conduct and ethics that mean that we do business the
right way. We talk to all our candidates about our legal
opportunities and obtain explicit permission before forwarding
them to any of our legal jobs. We have also introduced jobs board
technology to our site which means that candidates can run a
comprehensive legal job search, secure in
the knowledge that their privacy and personal
details will only end up on the desks or our expert legal
recruiters.