Legal Recruitment Blog

We use a number of job boards to post our vacancies on. One of these job boards is Reed.co.uk. We have been customers of Reed for over 10 years and have always found their job board to be very cost effective and worthwhile, although they really want to sack their PR agency - the TV ads are terrible! They started out as a recruitment agency themselves before setting up a job board and offering other recruitment agents free credits to post on it. Before long they had turned into a major player in the job board market. After Christmas 2018 we saw a spate of job advertisements coming our way from our clients right across the UK and with all shapes and sizes of job vacancies. We were very pleased to see this because our concern was that after Christmas and the arguments about Brexit just before, we would see a dramatic slowdown in work, but this did not happen in the first few weeks of January as we saw an increase in the number of applicants coming our way via our own sites. Email ...

Annual Predictions - how did the professional psychic do? We have been following the predictions of Craig Hamilton-Parker of psychics.co.uk for some years now - it is fascinating to see how he fares every year with his previous year's predictions. Here are a selection of Craig's 2019 predictions together with our scores:  THERESA MAY GOES - She survives until Brexit on the 29th March but resigns immediately afterward. (correct - sort of) HARD BREXIT BUT NO IRISH BORDER The Irish border is left open. A ruptured border allows the free flow of international goods into Europe. Ireland eventually enforces the border. (incorrect - so far...) POUND SOARS AFTER BREXIT The City of London sees unprecedented activity and a general improvement after a sharp initial fall. (incorrect - no brexit yet!) NEW POLITICAL PARTY FORMED I have spoken about this in the Sun newspaper psychic predictions in 2017. I believe it will happen this year and will draw politicians from...

Local Authority Rates for Locums - a view from a local authority locum A locum with experience of the local authority market very kindly emailed us over an outline of their experience of the locum market during their career to date."I am responding to your request for feedback on locum rates. I worked as a locum employment solicitor for local authorities [for 10 years]. All roles were through an agency. I often worked on large employment tribunal cases and would be involved in recruiting other locum solicitors so I have some insight into their hiring processes.My initial roles (Northern England) were paid at £18 and £21 respectively although this was because the agencies concerned misled me about market rate. I found out that [one council] had initially taken me over other locums as I was so cheap!I then worked at [a West Midlands Council] for around £32 per hour, although I was able to negotiate a higher rate due to the need to live away from home. I eventually ended up at...

January 2020 Legal Recruitment News is available here to read: http://www.legal-recruitment.co.uk/january-2020-legal-recruitment-news/ Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals .