Lateral Associate Recruitment Specialist

Wisnik Career Enterprises; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisnik Career Enterprises, Inc. is assisting a New York office of an international law firm with a senior recruiting role focused on lateral associates, counsel, judicial clerks, and LLM candidates across US offices.

The role partners with practice leaders, mentors a recruiting team, and drives sourcing strategies, pipeline development, and interview processes while coordinating offers with immigration, conflicts, and compensation teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting experience in professional services or a search firm; law firm recruiting experience preferred.
• Experience leading a recruiting function and mentoring team members strongly preferred.
• Strong passive candidate sourcing skills and ATS experience; Taleo or Workday a plus.
• Excellent client service, relationship-building and communication skills.
• Proactive, collaborative approach with sound business judgment and a commitment to a positive candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for lateral associates, counsel, judicial clerks and LLM candidates across US offices.
• Work closely with practice leaders to identify hiring needs, address recruiting challenges and execute recruitment strategies.
• Develop sourcing strategies, build candidate pipelines and conduct screening interviews.
• Manage search firm relationships and monitor legal hiring trends.
• Coordinate offers with immigration, conflicts, compensation and other internal teams.

Skills

Recruiting

Law firm recruiting

Leadership

ATS (Taleo/Workday)

Candidate experience

Tools

Taleo

Workday

Job description

For the New York Office of an International Law Firm

Responsibilities include

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for lateral associates, counsel, judicial clerks and LLM candidates across US offices.
• Work closely with practice leaders to identify hiring needs, address recruiting challenges and execute recruitment strategies.
• Develop sourcing strategies, build candidate pipelines and conduct screening interviews.
• Manage search firm relationships and monitor legal hiring trends.
• Coordinate offers with immigration, conflicts, compensation and other internal teams.

Qualifications include

• 5+ years of recruiting experience in professional services or a search firm; law firm recruiting experience preferred.
• Experience leading a recruiting function and mentoring team members strongly preferred.
• Strong passive candidate sourcing skills and ATS experience; Taleo or Workday a plus.
• Excellent client service, relationship-building and communication skills.
• Proactive, collaborative approach with sound business judgment and a commitment to a positive candidate experience.

Salary: $95.2k-$154.7k