Talent Acquisition Specialist

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Specialist manages full-cycle recruitment for attorneys and professional staff within a professional services environment. This role partners with hiring managers, HR, and business leaders to execute hiring strategies aligned with business needs, workforce planning priorities, and market conditions, while ensuring a consistent and high-quality recruitment process.

Responsibilities

• Executes full-cycle recruitment for attorneys (associate through partner) and professional staff, including intake, sourcing, assessment, selection, offer, and onboarding transition.
• Conducts intake discussions with hiring managers to define role scope, candidate profiles, and recruiting approach.
• Develops and executes sourcing strategies using direct outreach, networks, referrals, and external platforms.
• Builds and maintains candidate pipelines aligned with current and future hiring needs.
• Captures and evaluates sourcing effectiveness to adjust approach to meet hiring demands.
• Coordinates and facilitates structured interview processes, ensuring alignment on candidate evaluation and selection criteria.
• Supports offer development in partnership with HR and Compensation, ensuring alignment with defined compensation frameworks and internal equity.
• Navigates candidate discussions related to pay transparency, leveling, and offer positioning with sound judgment.
• Drives offer acceptance and supports onboarding transition.
• Partners with hiring managers to execute recruiting strategies aligned with business needs and hiring priorities.
• Provides input on talent availability, hiring timelines, and candidate quality to support decision-making.
• Identifies and raises misalignment in hiring expectations, escalating as appropriate.
• Maintains a consistent candidate experience aligned with defined recruiting processes, communication standards, and service expectations.
• Communicates role expectations, career opportunities, and offer details clearly and effectively.
• Builds and maintains relationships with candidates, ensuring engagement and transparency throughout the recruitment process.
• Sources and engages candidates through outreach, networks, and research.
• Assesses candidate qualifications, experience relevance, and overall fit to determine suitability for advancement.
• Manages candidate interactions across the recruitment lifecycle, including feedback delivery, offer discussions, and expectation setting.
• Navigates conversations related to compensation, role scope, and career movement with sound judgment and professionalism.
• Maintains confidentiality while building trust with candidates and stakeholders.
• Executes recruiting activities within defined workflows, documentation standards, and approval processes, maintaining consistency and attention to detail across multiple searches.
• Applies working knowledge of regulatory requirements, including pay transparency and multi-state considerations, to job postings and candidate communications.
• Maintains alignment between role requirements, compensation parameters, and candidate messaging to ensure consistency and mitigate risk.
• Operates applicant tracking systems (e.g., ADP, UKG, Vi) to manage requisitions, candidate workflows, and documentation throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Manages job postings and candidate pipelines across recruiting platforms and external sites in alignment with role requirements and hiring priorities.
• Leverages recruiting platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Indeed, Vi) to source and engage candidates, applying platform functionality to build and maintain pipelines.
• Maintains data accuracy and consistency across recruiting activities to support reporting and workflow integrity.
• Interprets recruiting data and pipeline metrics to adjust sourcing strategies and improve recruiting outcomes.

Qualifications

• Education: Associate’s degree or and/or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 4+ years of talent acquisition experience, including demonstrated success recruiting attorneys across multiple levels and/or professional staff roles, ideally within a law firm or comparable legal or professional services environment, with experience advising hiring managers on candidate selection, leveling, and compensation alignment, preferred.
• Legal Recruiting Expertise: Applies knowledge of law firm structures, practice areas, and attorney career progression to identify, screen, and advance candidates aligned to role requirements. Incorporates awareness of legal talent movement and compensation positioning to guide candidate outreach, engagement, and expectation-setting. Uses defined role criteria and compensation parameters to determine candidate alignment and inform hiring recommendations.
• Stakeholder Partnership & Influence: Guides hiring managers through candidate selection using defined role requirements, market context, and structured evaluation criteria. Identifies and addresses misalignment in hiring expectations, including scope, leveling, and compensation considerations. Delivers recommendations that balance candidate fit, market realities, and business needs.
• Sourcing & Talent Identification: Develops and executes targeted sourcing strategies by identifying where relevant legal talent resides and engaging candidates through outreach, networks, and research. Builds and maintains candidate pipelines based on practice area demand, role requirements, and talent availability. Assesses candidate qualifications, experience relevance, and overall fit to determine suitability for advancement.
• Candidate Management & Communication: Manages candidate interactions across the recruitment lifecycle, including feedback delivery, offer discussions, and expectation setting. Navigates conversations related to compensation, role scope, and career movement with sound judgment and professionalism. Maintains confidentiality while building trust with candidates and stakeholders.
• Process Execution & Compliance: Executes recruiting activities within defined workflows, documentation standards, and approval processes, maintaining consistency and attention to detail across multiple searches. Applies working knowledge of regulatory requirements, including pay transparency and multi-state considerations, to job postings and candidate communications. Maintains alignment between role requirements, compensation parameters, and candidate messaging to ensure consistency and mitigate risk.
• HR Systems, Recruiting Platforms & Technology: Operates applicant tracking systems (e.g., ADP, UKG, Vi) to manage requisitions, candidate workflows, and documentation throughout the recruitment lifecycle. Manages job postings and candidate pipelines across recruiting platforms and external sites in alignment with role requirements and hiring priorities. Uses recruiting platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Indeed, Vi) to source and engage candidates, applying platform functionality to build and maintain pipelines. Maintains data accuracy and consistency across recruiting activities to support reporting and workflow integrity. Interprets recruiting data and pipeline metrics to adjust sourcing strategies and improve recruiting outcomes.