After attending The University of Texas at Arlington, Polly began her legal career in Dallas, Texas where she worked for a prominent legal recruiting firm before moving to Atlanta, Georgia. After 14 years of legal recruiting many of the associates Polly worked with have become partners or General Counsel in major law firms or corporations throughout the US. Polly has built her success on maintaining relationships and building a network of personal contacts who turn to her first for their successful hires. Getting to know the clients and candidates on a more personal level and understanding their true objectives, is what sets Polly apart from others in her industry.
1. CONFIDENTIALITY. This is the single most important factor for attorneys in their employment search. Counsel Search goes to great lengths to ensure our candidates’ confidentiality. We understand that confidentiality is the most important service we offer our candidates. Counsel Search does not reveal your identity to anyone until you have authorized us to do so. Because potential employers speak directly with your recruiter, your search is kept extremely confidential.
2. Keep all information learned from a recruiter confidential. A recruiter’s business is information. If a recruiter tells you about a firm that is looking for a specific type of attorney, that information is confidential and proprietary, as is other information a recruiter has developed in the course of doing business. The attorney should not contact a recruiting company’s clients directly or ask another recruiting company to do this.
3. Describe your history fully and accurately. Communicate clearly. This is a very important factor when working with recruiters. You should have a strong level of trust and communication with your recruiter. This trust and communication allows our recruiters to quickly target potential clients that meet your employment goals. A lack of communication and trust only wastes your time and the recruiter’s time.
4. Be flexible and open to other career options. The perfect opportunity may not exist. It may make sense to consider a wider range of options in order to advance a career more quickly in the right direction.
5. Avoid window shopping. Collecting unwanted offers is like crying wolf. When the attorney really does not want to make a move, he or she will have lost credibility with the recruiter. Firms that made offers previously will be unlikely to reactivate them.
6. Keep accurate records/Resume Submission. Candidates should keep accurate records of all resume submissions, including acquaintance submissions, and provide a list of those submissions to your Counsel Search recruiter. Multiple submissions from multiple sources can be a weeding out tool for many employers. If you have submitted your resume to potential employers on your own, let your recruiter know. You must avoid submitting a resume to a potential employer through more than one source within a 6 month period of time, even if the position has changed. After we discuss potential positions with you we will email you a list of those positions and your responses to each for your records.
7. Interviewing tips. Ask your Counsel Search recruiter to supply you with pamphlets and information regarding interviewing tips. These are great tools for interview preparation. They include questions to ask potential employers, questions that may be asked of you, understanding and mastering the interviewing process as well as many other helpful tips.