Senior Manager of Associate Recruiting
Seyfarth Shaw LLP · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
HybridHuman Resources$175k–$200k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes "Why Seyfarth" intro, "The Opportunity", "The Day-To-Day", "You Have", "What We Provide", "More About Seyfarth", location specifics, salary ranges, benefits.
We need to use for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to map content to these headings.
We have:
- About the role: could be "Why Seyfarth" and "The Opportunity". Could combine as About the role.
- Responsibilities: The Day-To-Day bullet list.
- Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: "You Have" includes minimum experience, degree, knowledge, skills, etc. Could split: Requirements (experience, degree), Qualifications), Skills (specific abilities). But we can combine into Requirements and Skills sections.
- Benefits: "What We Provide" includes competitive salary and benefits, culture, etc. Also later "We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k)." So Benefits section.
- Pay: salary ranges for LA and SF.
- Schedule: maybe not explicit; they mention flexible work schedule, occasional travel, extended hours. That's schedule info. Could include Schedule section.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary ranges.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like bullet points exactly? We can rephrase but must preserve meaning. Probably keep bullet list items as
for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to map content to these headings.
We have:
- About the role: could be "Why Seyfarth" and "The Opportunity". Could combine as About the role.
- Responsibilities: The Day-To-Day bullet list.
- Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: "You Have" includes minimum experience, degree, knowledge, skills, etc. Could split: Requirements (experience, degree), Qualifications), Skills (specific abilities). But we can combine into Requirements and Skills sections.
- Benefits: "What We Provide" includes competitive salary and benefits, culture, etc. Also later "We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k)." So Benefits section.
- Pay: salary ranges for LA and SF.
- Schedule: maybe not explicit; they mention flexible work schedule, occasional travel, extended hours. That's schedule info. Could include Schedule section.
We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary ranges.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep details like bullet points exactly? We can rephrase but must preserve meaning. Probably keep bullet list items as - .
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft:
About the role
Why Seyfarth: ... The Opportunity: As a Senior Manager of Associate Recruiting, you will work closely with the firm’s Director of Associate Recruiting to execute the firm’s entry-level recruiting program and managing the firm’s on campus presence at law schools for the firm’s West Coast offices, including developing and advancing key initiatives surrounding the recruitment and hiring of law students into the firm as summer and entry-level associates. You will also oversee lateral associate recruitment efforts for the West Coast.
But we need to keep the "Why Seyfarth" paragraph: "Why Seyfarth At Seyfarth, we understand that great people are the key to our success, and we provide the opportunities to match. If you join us, you’ll work with state-of-the-art technology in a friendly and professional environment, and we will continue to invest in your professional development. If you want the freedom to grow at a firm that is invested in your future, keep reading."
We can combine.
Then Responsibilities: The Day-To-Day bullet list. We need to preserve each bullet. The bullet list includes many items separated by semicolons and line breaks. We'll break into - each.
Let's extract bullet points:
- Design, manage, and attend year-round campus outreach initiatives to raise the profile of Seyfarth at key law schools, including:
- Partnering with Director of Associate Recruiting to analyze recruitment data and trends and make recommendations on which law schools to include in on campus outreach;
- Cultivating and maintaining relationships with law school career services and student groups;
- Identifying organizations for sponsorship and partnerships;
- Developing innovative recruiting programming (student receptions, speaking engagements, etc.);
- Facilitating firm participation in mock interview programs, career fairs, and other opportunities to interact with law students throughout the academic year.
- Manage execution of the summer associate program in West Coast offices, including:
- Coordinate with HR and other Business Services departments to onboard summer associate hires;
- Plan and conduct orientation for the summer associates;
- Design and attend social events;
- Liaise with Talent Development team to develop and execute substantive summer associate trainings;
- Prepare evaluation materials for summer associate reviews;
- Track and review summer associate assignments and evaluations and assist with offer decisions.
- Drive the West Coast lateral associate recruiting strategy to attract, hire and retain top candidates in relation to the hiring directives and growth initiatives set by firm leadership.
- Oversee the lateral associate hiring process including drafting job descriptions, proactive candidate sourcing, reviewing candidate resumes, coordinating interview schedules, assessing evaluations, negotiating offers, and managing candidate communications.
- Cultivate relationships with search firm recruiters and regularly communicate the firm’s lateral associate hiring needs.
- Represent the firm in local and national legal recruiting organizations.
- Keep abreast of key market issues and trends. Track information and analyze competitive data, best practices and trends to provide strategic recommendations to recruiting team, department and firm leadership in alignment with the firm’s strategic recruitment goals.
- Supervise and contribute to professional development of junior members of the Associate Recruiting team.
We'll format as nested lists? Simpler: each top-level bullet as
- with sub-bullets as nested
- . Acceptable.
Then Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: "You Have" paragraph.
We can split:
Requirements
- Minimum of 6+ years of legal recruiting/talent management experience in a law firm setting required.
- Bachelor’s Degree Required; J.D. Preferred.
Skills
- A strong knowledge of the legal market and professional relationships in legal professional groups and other organizations related to the legal industry.
- Sophisticated strategic and analytical thinking, drive, initiative, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective client service skills, with proven organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and multi-task effectively.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with personnel at all levels.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, as well as strong attention to detail and organization.
- Ability to accommodate a flexible work schedule that will occasionally require travel and extended hours.
- Ability to exercise good judgment and to recognize and treat confidential information in a professional manner.
- Proficiency in the use of recruiting databases/applicant tracking systems (e.g., LawCruit, viDesktop, FloRecruit, Firm Prospects, etc.).
But note "Ability to accommodate a flexible work schedule that will occasionally require travel and extended hours." could go to Schedule section. However schedule section is for schedule details; we could put that there. But we can also keep in Skills. The instruction: include a section ONLY when posting has real specific content. Schedule: they mention flexible work schedule, occasional travel, extended hours. That's schedule info. So we can create Schedule section with that bullet.
Thus we move that bullet to Schedule.
Also "Ability to exercise good judgment and to recognize and treat confidential information in a professional manner." maybe under Skills.
Now Benefits: "What We Provide" plus later benefits details.
We'll craft:
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits at all levels.
- Culture embraces the entrepreneurial spirit of its professionals.
- Professional staff are a collaborative team helping to define the unique client experience.
- Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k).
Pay: salary ranges.
We have location specific language: Los Angeles and San Francisco salary ranges $175,000 to $200,000 annually based on 40-hour work week. Also mention eligibility for annual merit increase and bonus pay.
We'll put in Pay section.
Schedule: flexible work schedule, occasional travel, extended hours.
We'll also maybe include location info? Not required as heading; could be in About the role or a separate paragraph. But we have no heading for location. Could include in About the role paragraph.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, location specific language about fair chance, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; we removed location specific language about fair chance and EEO, but we kept location salary ranges. That's fine.
We also removed "More About Seyfarth" paragraph about 1,000 lawyers etc. That's substantive; we should keep it maybe in About the role or a separate section like "About the firm". But we only have allowed headings list; we could add a paragraph under About the role or maybe create a separate section "About Seyfarth" but not in allowed headings. The instruction: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples, but we should likely stick to those. It says "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we should use those headings; we can also add other headings if needed? It says use those for section headings; implies we should use those headings for sections. It doesn't forbid other headings, but to be safe we stick to those.
Thus we need to fit "More About Seyfarth" into one of those sections. Could put under About the role or maybe under Benefits? Probably About the role is appropriate: includes description of firm.
Thus About the role paragraph will include the "Why Seyfarth" intro, the Opportunity description, and the More About Seyfarth description.
Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We aren't.
Now produce HTML.
Let's craft:
About the role
Why Seyfarth: At Seyfarth, we understand that great people are the key to our success, and we provide the opportunities to match. If you join us, you’ll work with state-of-the-art technology in a friendly and professional environment, and we will continue to invest in your professional development. If you want the freedom to grow at a firm that is invested in your future, keep reading.
The Opportunity: As a Senior Manager of Associate Recruiting, you will work closely with the firm’s Director of Associate Recruiting to execute the firm’s entry-level recruiting program and manage the firm’s on‑campus presence at law schools for the firm’s West Coast offices, including developing and advancing key initiatives surrounding the recruitment and hiring of law students into the firm as summer and entry‑level associates. You will also oversee lateral associate recruitment efforts for the West Coast.
More About Seyfarth: With approximately 1,000 lawyers across 19 offices, Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides advisory, litigation, and transactional legal services to clients worldwide.
Then Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Design, manage, and attend year‑round campus outreach initiatives to raise the profile of Seyfarth at key law schools, including:
- Partnering with the Director of Associate Recruiting to analyze recruitment data and trends and make recommendations on which law schools to include in on‑campus outreach;
- Cultivating and maintaining relationships with law school career services and student groups;
- Identifying organizations for sponsorship and partnerships;
- Developing innovative recruiting programming (student receptions, speaking engagements, etc.);
- Facilitating firm participation in mock interview programs, career fairs, and other opportunities to interact with law students throughout the academic year.
- Manage execution of the summer associate program in West Coast offices, including:
- Coordinate with HR and other Business Services departments to onboard summer associate hires;
- Plan and conduct orientation for the summer associates;
- Design and attend social events;
- Liaise with the
About the role
Why Seyfarth: ... The Opportunity: As a Senior Manager of Associate Recruiting, you will work closely with the firm’s Director of Associate Recruiting to execute the firm’s entry-level recruiting program and managing the firm’s on campus presence at law schools for the firm’s West Coast offices, including developing and advancing key initiatives surrounding the recruitment and hiring of law students into the firm as summer and entry-level associates. You will also oversee lateral associate recruitment efforts for the West Coast.
But we need to keep the "Why Seyfarth" paragraph: "Why Seyfarth At Seyfarth, we understand that great people are the key to our success, and we provide the opportunities to match. If you join us, you’ll work with state-of-the-art technology in a friendly and professional environment, and we will continue to invest in your professional development. If you want the freedom to grow at a firm that is invested in your future, keep reading." We can combine. Then Responsibilities: The Day-To-Day bullet list. We need to preserve each bullet. The bullet list includes many items separated by semicolons and line breaks. We'll break into- . Acceptable.
Then Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: "You Have" paragraph.
We can split:
Requirements
- Minimum of 6+ years of legal recruiting/talent management experience in a law firm setting required.
- Bachelor’s Degree Required; J.D. Preferred.
Skills
- A strong knowledge of the legal market and professional relationships in legal professional groups and other organizations related to the legal industry.
- Sophisticated strategic and analytical thinking, drive, initiative, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective client service skills, with proven organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and multi-task effectively.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with personnel at all levels.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, as well as strong attention to detail and organization.
- Ability to accommodate a flexible work schedule that will occasionally require travel and extended hours.
- Ability to exercise good judgment and to recognize and treat confidential information in a professional manner.
- Proficiency in the use of recruiting databases/applicant tracking systems (e.g., LawCruit, viDesktop, FloRecruit, Firm Prospects, etc.).
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits at all levels.
- Culture embraces the entrepreneurial spirit of its professionals.
- Professional staff are a collaborative team helping to define the unique client experience.
- Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k).
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples, but we should likely stick to those. It says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." So we should use those headings; we can also add other headings if needed? It says use those for section headings; implies we should use those headings for sections. It doesn't forbid other headings, but to be safe we stick to those. Thus we need to fit "More About Seyfarth" into one of those sections. Could put under About the role or maybe under Benefits? Probably About the role is appropriate: includes description of firm. Thus About the role paragraph will include the "Why Seyfarth" intro, the Opportunity description, and the More About Seyfarth description. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We aren't. Now produce HTML. Let's craft:
About the role
Why Seyfarth: At Seyfarth, we understand that great people are the key to our success, and we provide the opportunities to match. If you join us, you’ll work with state-of-the-art technology in a friendly and professional environment, and we will continue to invest in your professional development. If you want the freedom to grow at a firm that is invested in your future, keep reading.
The Opportunity: As a Senior Manager of Associate Recruiting, you will work closely with the firm’s Director of Associate Recruiting to execute the firm’s entry-level recruiting program and manage the firm’s on‑campus presence at law schools for the firm’s West Coast offices, including developing and advancing key initiatives surrounding the recruitment and hiring of law students into the firm as summer and entry‑level associates. You will also oversee lateral associate recruitment efforts for the West Coast.
More About Seyfarth: With approximately 1,000 lawyers across 19 offices, Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides advisory, litigation, and transactional legal services to clients worldwide.
Then Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- Design, manage, and attend year‑round campus outreach initiatives to raise the profile of Seyfarth at key law schools, including:
- Partnering with the Director of Associate Recruiting to analyze recruitment data and trends and make recommendations on which law schools to include in on‑campus outreach;
- Cultivating and maintaining relationships with law school career services and student groups;
- Identifying organizations for sponsorship and partnerships;
- Developing innovative recruiting programming (student receptions, speaking engagements, etc.);
- Facilitating firm participation in mock interview programs, career fairs, and other opportunities to interact with law students throughout the academic year.
- Manage execution of the summer associate program in West Coast offices, including:
- Coordinate with HR and other Business Services departments to onboard summer associate hires;
- Plan and conduct orientation for the summer associates;
- Design and attend social events;
- Liaise with the