Legal Recruiting Coordinator
About The Position
The Legal Recruiting Coordinator supports Allen Matkins’ attorney recruiting efforts and helps deliver a professional, high-quality candidate experience. Reporting to the Legal Recruiting Manager, the Coordinator administers and coordinates lateral recruiting logistics and works with candidates, attorneys, search firms, and internal stakeholders to support an efficient recruiting process. The role includes interview scheduling, candidate communications, search coordination, recruiting events, and related projects. The successful candidate is detail-oriented, organized, communicative, and proactive, with sound judgment and a service-oriented approach. The role supports multiple active searches and candidates in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and requires maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive information. The Coordinator is an important point of contact for candidates throughout the recruiting process. Allen Matkins is a law firm with more than 300 attorneys and nearly 50 years of history. Its practices include real estate, litigation, corporate, tax, labor and employment, land use, and environmental law.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 2 years of recruiting experience required.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Experience with applicant tracking systems.
- Proficiency with MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment, solve problems, take initiative, and follow through.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, service-oriented environment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and maintain a high level of confidentiality.
- Ability to work extended hours, nights, and weekends as needed.
- Ability to travel to other firm offices for firm and recruiting events as needed.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Flo applicant tracking system.
Responsibilities
- Maintain complete and accurate candidate files in the applicant tracking system.
- Coordinate virtual and in-person interviews, welcome candidates, support a professional candidate experience, and address scheduling changes or issues.
- Collect and organize interviewer evaluations.
- Draft job postings, coordinate approvals, post openings on recruiting platforms, and maintain open and closed position records.
- Maintain search firm agreements and related records.
- Coordinate and track background checks, conflicts checks, reference checks, and other pre-employment requirements for lateral candidates.
- Monitor shared recruiting inboxes and promptly respond to or route inquiries.
- Update lateral recruiting reports, candidate trackers, and open-position data.
- Track recruiting activity, statistics, and market information to support hiring initiatives.
- Provide administrative support, including conference room reservations, check requests, and reimbursements.
- Assist with law student recruiting and summer associate program initiatives as needed.
- Assist with special projects and firmwide recruiting initiatives as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Travel to other firm offices for firm and recruiting events as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
