Legal Services Recruitment with Full-Cycle RPO

Legal Services Recruitment with Full-Cycle RPO

How we helped this long-term legal services client revamp their talent acquisition program

Solution

PeopleScout has been RPO partner to this client for over 10 years. The relationship started as a co-sourced solution, where our recruiters partnered with the client’s internal talent acquisition team. As our partnership deepended, PeopleScout has taken responsibility for fully outsourced recruitment program and now also acts in a talent advisory capacity.

The onsite PeopleScout team is responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for all fixed term and permanent hires. This includes strategic and innovative sourcing approaches, competitor mapping for key job groups, process enhancement through technology automation, candidate and hiring manager engagement and satisfaction, onboarding and induction.

PeopleScout achieved some key business-critical initiatives including:

  • Reducing turnover through improved quality-of-hire
  • Delivering a positive candidate experience and employer brand reputation
  • Taking over the end-to-end recruitment campaign for graduates and early careers from a different outsourced provider
  • Building talent pipelines for hard-to-fill positions including auditors, economists and lawyers
  • Recruiting senior executive and specialist roles
  • Project recruitment for recruitment intake following new law reforms

Talent Advisory Services

As part of this solution, PeopleScout has delivered a number of additional services in order to drive continuous improvement. The following is a summary of some of the services that have been successfully implemented:

  • Redesigned and promoted the employee referral program (ERP)
  • Developed hiring manager interview guides and conducted interview training
  • Developed microsites for a recruitment campaign for lawyers
  • Conducted D&I consulting
  • Supported the client’s internal mobility program leveraging the Affinix talent acquisition suite
  • Automated recruitment reports
  • Developed a company LinkedIn profile and alumni page to promote candidate attraction

Results

The solution continues to achieve positive results for the business including:

  • Reducing agency spend by over $3 million
  • Achieving an average time-to-fill of just 29 days including for senior level positions