About Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray is a preeminent global law firm. The firm has been ranked in the top three on The American Lawyer's prestigious A-List for eight consecutive years and #1 on Law.com's UK A-List twice in the past three years - rankings that honor the "best of the best" law firms.The firm has approximately 2,500 lawyers and professionals serving clients in major centers of business, finance, technology, and government in Boston, Chicago, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.The firm has consistently been recognized for its leading practices in many areas, including asset management, private equity, M&A, finance, real estate, tax, antitrust, life sciences, health care, intellectual property, litigation & enforcement, privacy & cybersecurity, and business restructuring.Ropes & Gray is an equal opportunity employer.
Overview
JOB SUMMARY:
As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent for a variety of roles across all business support departments. You will collaborate closely with business leaders to understand their workforce requirements and develop tailored recruitment strategies. From sourcing and screening candidates to managing the interview process and extending offers, you will ensure a smooth and efficient recruitment experience through strong communication, and your ability to build strong relationships to maintain a robust talent pipeline.
Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Manage the full lifecycle recruitment process for a wide range of business support roles across various levels of seniority. Provide expert guidance to hiring managers and departments on the entire talent acquisition process, including the use of the applicant tracking system, interviewing techniques, candidate selection, evaluation, and best internal practices.
- Work closely with HR business partners and hiring managers to review job descriptions, understand how the position fits into the department and determine candidate profile based on success factors and performance measures.
- Implement sourcing strategies that provide for qualified and diverse candidate pools through networking, referrals, job postings and direct sourcing for passive talent. Seek out new and innovative ways to recruit top talent for open positions. Understand and execute against shifts in the marketplace that present recruiting opportunities.
- Manage the recruiting process by engaging in timely and appropriate communications with all stakeholders to provide a best-in-class recruiting experience. Build a deep understanding of business units, role requirements and desired candidate profiles. Maintain candidate pipelines and relationships including sourcing, resume review, screening, scheduling, debriefing and offer negotiations.
- Adopt a continuous improvement approach by collaborating with HR on team projects, regularly identifying opportunities to enhance processes and drive efficiency.
- Provide general support with onboarding and orientation, off-boarding and training programs designed for the firm.
ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES:
- Ability to consistently and positively contribute in a high-paced, changing work environment.
- Develop subject matter expertise on current external recruiting best practices and trends.
- Ability to prioritize multiple functions and tasks and manage work time efficiently.
- Ability to handle customer relationship management, provide strong customer consultative skills and work in a team environment.
- Passion for improving the customer experience, with customers broadly defined as candidates, new hires, hiring managers and HR business partners; Commitment to identifying areas of opportunity for higher efficiency and to improve equity within the candidate experience.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment with a high sense of urgency.
- Motivated by desire to ensure quality throughout processes and maintain high professional standards.
- Ability to grasp new technologies quickly.
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of five (5) years of progressive recruiting experience in fast-paced law or professional service firm environment.
- Experience with recruiting technologies, such as iCIMS and LinkedIn, strongly preferred.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with business leaders and cross-functional partners; comfortability advising leaders on talent acquisition best practices.
- Detail-oriented, problem solver with a strong desire to build a world-class support organization.
- Proven organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and work well in an environment with competing demands.
Compensation and Total Rewards Package
Ropes & Gray is proud to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package to our business support team members. The firm also offers comprehensive health and well-being benefits, personal and professional development, career growth opportunities and a collegial and supportive culture. The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below and represents our good faith and reasonable estimate of the starting salary range at the time of posting. In addition, this role is eligible for a discretionary bonus based on performance. The actual offered rate for this position will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors, including qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data and consideration of internal equity.
Boston: $88,600 - $135,100
Working Conditions
Normal office environment. Incumbent is expected to work on-site three (3) days per week. This is an exempt job, and the incumbent is expected to work the hours necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the position.
The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of essential functions, responsibilities, or requirements.