Online Recruitment Specialist

Next Level Exchange; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Level Exchange seeks an experienced Legal Recruiter to join its Legal Solutions Group, focusing on attorney and legal professional placements. The role emphasizes outbound outreach, relationship-building, and driving successful searches for clients across law firms and corporate legal departments.

You will partner with the Practice Leader, leverage established client relationships, and have opportunities to expand into broader responsibilities as you grow.

Qualifications

• Legal experience/knowledge required.
• 1+ years recruiting experience; agency/search experience preferred, but strong in-house or law-firm recruiting backgrounds will be considered.
• Comfortable with proactive, phone-driven recruiting and reaching out to passive candidates.
• Polished, professional, and relationship-focused when communicating with attorneys, partners, legal leaders, and clients.
• Motivated by performance, commission upside, and the opportunity to build within an established legal practice.

Responsibilities

• Identify and engage attorneys and legal professionals through outbound calling, sourcing, networking, referrals, email, and targeted outreach.
• Build trusted relationships with legal professionals, understand their career goals, and connect them with opportunities that make sense.
• Own the candidate-side execution of active searches, including pipelines, priorities, follow-up, interview coordination, and search timelines.
• Continue building your network and knowledge across law firms, corporate legal departments, and the broader legal market.
• Take on account management and client interaction based on your experience and interests.

Skills

Legal recruiting

Phone outreach

Candidate relationships

Agency recruiting

In-house recruiting

Law firm recruiting

Job description

Legal Recruiter DRI is looking for an experienced, relationship-focused recruiter to join our Legal Solutions Group. This is an opportunity for someone who already understands legal recruiting and enjoys the candidate side of search - sourcing, outreach, relationship building, and helping legal professionals navigate the right career move.

Remote Flexibility: Work remotely, with a preference for professionals based in Ohio or the Midwest and aligned with Eastern Time.

Flexible, performance-driven compensation with commission upside; structure can be tailored based on experience and preferred mix.

Established Legal Practice: Join a specialized legal recruiting team with active client relationships, existing searches, and a strong reputation across law firms and corporate legal departments.

Training & Resources: Access recruiter development through Next Level Exchange, DRI’s established recruiting tools and resources, and direct support from an experienced Legal Practice Leader.

Room to Grow: Focus on recruiting first, with the opportunity to expand into account management, client development, and a fuller desk as your interests and experience grow.

Established Brand: Join a relationship-focused executive search firm with more than four decades in business and the resources of the broader Starfish Partners organization.

Legal recruiting is relationship-driven and highly proactive. Your day will include identifying legal talent, making outbound calls, building relationships with passive candidates, learning what motivates them, managing follow-up, and partnering closely with the Practice Leader to move searches from kickoff through placement.

Responsibilities

• Legal Recruiting: Identify and engage attorneys and legal professionals through outbound calling, sourcing, networking, referrals, email, and targeted outreach.
• Build trusted relationships with legal professionals, understand their career goals, and connect them with opportunities that make sense.
• Search & Project Management: Own the candidate-side execution of active searches, including pipelines, priorities, follow-up, interview coordination, and search timelines.
• Continue building your network and knowledge across law firms, corporate legal departments, and the broader legal market.
• Client-Facing Growth: Take on account management and client interaction based on your experience and interests.

Qualifications

• Legal experience/knowledge required.
• Ideally 1+ years of recruiting experience; agency/search experience preferred, but strong in-house or law-firm recruiting backgrounds will be considered.
• Comfortable with proactive, phone-driven recruiting and reaching out to passive candidates.
• Polished, professional, and relationship-focused when communicating with attorneys, partners, legal leaders, and clients.
• Motivated by performance, commission upside, and the opportunity to build within an established legal practice.

Since 1983, DRI has partnered with organizations throughout North America to recruit and retain high-impact talent for mission-critical positions.

Our Legal Solutions Group partners with law firms and corporate legal departments to recruit attorneys and legal professionals across private practice, in-house, contract, and leadership searches. The team combines deep legal-market knowledge with a highly personal, relationship-driven approach to search.

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