Editors Note: This article on law
firm hiring mistakes was taken from the Management Big Idea section of our February 2018 Insiders» Journal.
Not exact matches
Whether an entrepreneur has
hired a PR
firm or communications director or they are attempting to do public relations on their own, there are a few key
mistakes that they make time and again, preventing them from ever getting covered and their publicist or communication director from doing the job they are paid for.
You can see that the law
firm wants to avoid the
mistake of
hiring someone who isn't committed.
Those savings take place if you made the
mistake of
hiring FindLaw as your law
firm's marketing company (or are contemplating doing so).
This is a critical part of the analysis beyond just the «fit» because too many lateral
hiring mistakes may disrupt a law
firm's existing culture.
The
mistake made by the majority of the law
firm websites we analyze is that they're designed in a way that assumes every single visitor is ready to
hire an attorney RIGHT NOW.
The only consultants I've ever
hired in my 10 years is one
firm to analyze Gateway's retail strategy so I would not make some of the same
mistakes they made [when launching Apple's retail stores].
At many
firms, cover letters are more of a weeding - out tool, as
hiring managers are looking for
mistakes to eliminate candidates.
Mistakes that hurt the
hiring company, any outside recruiting
firm involved, and of course, the candidate.
And make no
mistake: job - hunting is a sales process, and your job is to sell yourself to the employer so that he can see how
hiring you will benefit his
firm.
«Not checking the past employment of potential new
hires is one of the biggest
mistakes employers can make,» says Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of global background check
firm Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR), and author of «The Safe
Hiring Manual,» a guide to background screening.