FW Legal Recruiting Specialist

Kirkland & Ellis - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Firmwide Legal Recruiting Specialist at Kirkland & Ellis plays a crucial role in supporting the campus legal recruiting efforts across the organization. This position involves collaboration with various offices and departments to enhance recruiting efficiency, manage candidate pipelines, and coordinate recruitment events. The specialist will also be responsible for analyzing recruitment data, maintaining communication with attorneys, and supporting the Summer Associate Program and other initiatives within the Legal Recruiting & Development Department.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other Kirkland offices and departments to identify efficiencies and best practices.
• Develop, prepare and analyze relevant reports, projections, and statistical data.
• Schedule screening and callback interviews.
• Follow up with attorneys for interview feedback.
• Oversee maintenance of school information charts, including CSO contacts, transcript release dates, finals dates, etc.
• Coordinate and attend recruitment events.
• Prepare Firmwide 1L and 2L Post-Recruiting surveys, aggregate and analyze results.
• Track candidate pipeline information in Vi.
• Plan law school and law student outreach including panels, podcast series, presentations, receptions, mentoring programs, etc.
• Coordinate student group sponsorship requests.
• Set up and monitor events in Flo Recruit.
• Partner with marketing team to update and maintain campus engagement materials, website updates and outreach library.
• Track post-event attorney feedback in Vi.
• Oversee FW Event Tracking process.
• Delegate to coordinators and assistants.
• Train team coordinators, assistants, contract workers and interns, when applicable.
• Maintain recruiting timelines for events and projects.
• Update team OneNote binders.
• Draft team communications.
• Respond to inquiries from attorneys/staff.
• Generate surveys using Novi Survey tool.
• Support Summer Associate Program, Summer and New Associate Orientation, and other LRD initiatives as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of experience, preferably in a law firm or professional services setting.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work with people at all levels and maintain confidentiality.
• Demonstrated initiative and ability to work independently with minimal instructions.
• Experience with Symplicity, Flo Recruit and ViDesktop preferred.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills required.