The Team
Re:link is Linklaters’ flexible lawyer platform. We provide Linklaters' clients and practice groups with swift access to a community of high-quality consultants to solve their flexible resourcing needs.
Re:link is a key part of Limitless, Linklater’s recently re-designed Alternative Legal Services offering. Limitless draws together Linklaters’ paralegals, support lawyers, legal project managers and legaltech professionals as well as Re:link consultants. By drawing on talent from across the UK, it embraces a fully location agnostic model, ensuring the firm has access to the widest possible pool of talent to meet client needs.
The Role
At Re:link our lawyers are our lifeblood. We strive to create and maintain a community of high-quality consultant lawyers, united by the opportunity to be engaged in cutting-edge legal work for Linklaters and its most valuable clients, as well as a shared and genuine sense of belonging with the wider firm and its people.
At Re:link, it is the Talent team’s responsibility to grow and retain this community. As a member of the Talent team, you will support our talent attraction and recruitment strategy, helping to identify and attract the very best consultant lawyers to meet client demand, through direct sourcing, research and market mapping. You will also manage and support the many processes and team tasks that underpin the Talent team’s work. The role will suit you if you are energetic and proactive and driven to truly “get under the skin” and take full ownership of the responsibilities that are assigned to you.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Identifying high calibre lawyers to join the Re:link platform through direct sourcing, market-mapping and research, using best practice research methods to build substantial talent pipelines.
- Screening profiles and having initial conversations with prospective Re:link consultants, assessing that they satisfy Linklaters’ expectations regarding expertise, culture and values. Additionally ensuring that all applicants receive communication and updates on their progress.
- Converting initial conversations to applications where appropriate, often with senior candidates, while ensuring that they enjoy a professional, efficient, and personal candidate experience.
- Working closely with the Client team to understand recruitment needs and priorities. This is in relation to “live” client opportunities as well as for the purpose of ensuring that the platform has ready access to a strong growing pipeline of talent.
- Providing “hands-on” support to the wider Talent team by taking ownership of a range of tasks, activities and processes, including process management support for Talent team colleagues in Desk-focussed roles. This includes scheduling interviews, coordinating and tracking check-ins with consultants, taking verbal references, cleaning CVs and updating collateral and templates . It also includes tracking, managing and ensuring the seamless progression of key Talent team processes such as candidate onboarding as well as other team projects, working with the Re:link Operations team as necessary. Keeping the Re:link database accurately updated with Talent team data, notes and collateral is another key element of this role, including in compliance with GDPR.
- Preparing regular reports and analysis in relation to Re:link consultants and other Talent team data for internal stakeholders including Linklaters practice groups.
- Supporting the wider Talent Team generally as part of a collaborative global Talent Team, including providing cover or additional capacity to other team members during periods of high busyness, holidays or other absences, as well as the ongoing development and streamlining of the team’s processes and systems.
- Undertaking other wider Re:link team projects and priorities where so required
You will ideally have/be:
- Direct sourcing recruitment experience within the legal or other relevant professional service sector, with experience in the use of LinkedIn Recruiter and/or other equivalent tools. Market-mapping and research experience also desirable.
- Confident in communicating with people at all levels. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Enjoys building strong relationships with the ability to build natural rapport easily and a genuine curiosity concerning the lives and careers of our consultants
- Enjoys putting in place processes and systems and finding opportunities to introduce efficiencies. Very organised and structured, strong process management skills but also pragmatic and flexible. Happy and comfortable with doing regular, repeat tasks as part of key processes.
- Excellent attention to detail is key, with the ability to manage competing priorities and demands from a range of stakeholders.
- Hands-on and willing to “get hands dirty”, team player, dynamic and enthusiastic.
What’s on offer for you:
The role is being offered on a remote basis. This means that the successful candidate should expect to work remotely from home, with occasional travel to Re:link’s London office for team meetings and activities. Making this role available on a remote working basis is part of Linklaters and Re:link’s drive to offer flexibility and alternative working arrangements, while enabling the team to draw on talent from across the United Kingdom.
At Re:link we are proud with what we have achieved over 5 years. We have established a market-leading reputation for outstanding client service and as a dynamic, friendly team that genuinely enjoys finding the best opportunities for our talent pool of consultants. We are a highly collaborative, sophisticated team who enjoy working together and supporting each other in all we do.
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a fun, high-performing, problem-solving team in an environment that combines the agility and dynamism of a start up with the support and professionalism of one of the world’s preeminent law firms.
Key Benefits:
Health & Wellbeing
- Private Medical Insurance
- Access to a wellbeing allowance
- Free onsite / online GP service and periodic health assessments
Finance
- Pension and flexible savings options
- Income protection and life assurance
- Mortgage advice and will-writing services.
Family & Lifestyle
- Electric car and cycle to work schemes.
- Emergency family care
- Additional holiday/birthday leave.
- Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave.
- Travel insurance and season ticket loan
- Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)
What sets us apart:
At Linklaters
- We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
- We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment, and governance responsibility commitments
- We celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work
- We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
- We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
- We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
- We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect, and appreciation
- We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
- We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others
Technical Skills
This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
Application Policy
Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).
