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Legal Recruiter

Legal Recruiter DISC Chart

Job Summary

A legal recruiter is a human resources professional who assists hiring managers in the legal industry to find, hire, and retain high-quality legal professionals. They assess, project, and determine hiring needs and create a recruiting process that meets their clients’ business strategies. They manage the full lifecycle of the recruiting process to facilitate the hire of qualified candidates. A legal recruiter develops and maintains a pipeline of top talent relationships and finds candidates through outreach to industry partners, social media, and online recruiting tools. They typically work at a law firm or on a recruiting team at a recruiting firm or legal search firm.

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Personality types of a Legal Recruiter

Each letter of DISC represents polar personality types with correlating behaviors and characteristics. Learn more about their strengths and weaknesses, how they communicate, and more
D

low D - Planner

Likes to plan before taking action
I

low I - Supporter

Likes to work independently
S

high S - Stabilizer

Likes consistency
C

high C - Rule Follower

Likes to follow procedures

Behavioral Qualities for a Legal Recruiter

Behavioral qualities make people naturally act in a certain way. Utilize people's natural behaviors and strengths at work.
  • Patient. Able to wait for an outcome.
  • Calm. Restrained and controlled.
  • Dependable. Able to be relied upon.
  • Detail oriented. Attentive to all levels of detail.

Motivators for a Legal Recruiter

Motivators are values that drive people. To retain passionate employees, place people in a role that utilizes their values
  • Political: A drive for authority, to take command. To tend to the political drive, create opportunities for them to lead and manage the recruiting process.
  • Altruistic: A caring drive to benefit and support others. To tend to the altruistic drive, allow them to directly interact with customers in order to find solutions that best meet client needs.
  • Regulatory: A drive to maintain order and the status quo. To tend to the regulatory drive, allow them to be proactive in created their own process and schedule.

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