Interview Tips for Private Practice Legal Professionals

The concept of recruitment seems simple: you contact a recruiter, they make a few calls, and place you in a job that suits your experience and preferences.

Well, it’s not quite that easy.

There is so much more to the process that stays behind the scenes, particularly in specialist legal recruitment.

Recruiting is about building relationships, not just dialing numbers. From business development to candidate sourcing and job advertising to client communication, the hiring process is a long and convoluted one. So, we decided we’d let you in on an important aspect of it.

Introducing our newest cheat sheet: Interview Tips for private practice legal professionals.

Now, we know what you’re thinking—isn’t it the candidate’s job to prep for their own interview? That may be so, but we figured there’s no sense in keeping our insider knowledge to ourselves.

As the internet becomes more and more saturated with interview tips, we’ve compiled all of the advice that we typically provide our candidates in one place.

We’ve devised this cheat sheet to cover each section of our carefully curated interview preparation notes, honed by years of experience. It focuses on you, the hiring firm, and the research you should complete, along with the logistics of interviewing in person versus online and the next steps once the process is seemingly over.

Like the recruitment industry, there’s more to interviewing than meets the eye. It’s no longer a case of being confident about your work experience and coming across well; there are a multitude of things to consider.

What about the people interviewing you? Is the team you’re joining part of a larger department whose work you need to be aware of? Has the firm experienced growth that’s relevant to your role? Are they planning anything important that may impact your position?

The list goes on. And so will you—to the next stage of interviews.

You can download this cheat sheet in a handy PDF!

If you’re interested in the prospect of a new role but haven’t quite got to the interview stage just yet, contact our specialist legal recruitment team—Hayley or Chloë—and let us know. Or, browse our current vacancies.

Stay tuned for more legal interview tips from our in-house cheat sheet that’s currently in the works.