Looking For A Better Way To Recruit Legal Talent? Just Hire An Esquire

Legal recruiting has long been a tedious and, frankly, painful process. Whether you’re looking to hire or be hired, finding the right recruiter is hard enough. Even if you do, the long waits for that recruiter to comb through his or her contacts in the hopes of finding the right job opening or candidate can start to feel like throwing darts at the board while blindfolded.

The ingenious folks at Hire an Esquire are changing all that. Determined to modernize legal recruiting, they’ve created a simple, yet highly sophisticated SaaS platform that’s revolutionizing the world of legal hiring. Whether you’re an employer looking to hire the perfect attorney or an attorney seeking autonomy and that ever-elusive work/life balance, Hire an Esquire is your new best friend. Thanks to advanced algorithms, predictive behavior analytics, and a user-friendly platform, Hire an Esquire is a win-win for both sides of the hiring equation, matching up job posters and candidates faster than ever before.

Hiring the Right Esquire

Hire an Esquire works with everyone from AmLaw firms to Fortune 500 companies to solo practitioners, staffing everything from yearlong document reviews to three-day research projects to one-off court appearances next week. If you’re looking to hire for any kind of legal job, you can probably find the right talent here.

Starting is as simple as logging in and posting a job.

Just indicate exactly what you’re looking for in terms of the nature of the job, experience and skills required, hours expectations, and duration of the assignment. The more accurate you are, the more likely you are to find candidates who are a good fit. Hire an Esquire conveniently helps you with this, giving you job tags to check off that break down the legal market into every possible practice area, and then relevant sub-specialties within those areas.

Once you input all your requirements, Hire an Esquire runs its algorithms through a series of objective data points to find candidates that meet them. In addition to obvious factors like bar admissions, skills, and experience, they also use predictive behavior analytics to examine a number of elements that have been known to predict attorney success, particularly in contract or freelance roles, and identify the candidates that possess those strengths.

Even more impressive, it all happens almost instantaneously. The result is an immediate selection of people in Hire an Esquire’s system who might be a good fit for your job. You can scroll through to view candidate profiles and rates, dismissing those who aren’t right, saving some for later, or sending an invitation to apply to those who pique your interest. Providing feedback on the candidates you dismiss helps make the algorithms even smarter in the future.

While you can always also search for candidates with the right experience, posting a job allows you to reach the entire universe of legal professionals currently registered with Hire an Esquire. Searches won’t find attorneys who choose to keep their profiles private, so as not to advertise that they’re looking for work. Posting a job will find even those private profiles if the algorithms trigger a match.

The staffing possibilities are endless. Are you comfortable using remote attorneys to fill niche needs? Need to refer out a single matter without risking losing your client? Want to build an entire practice around using contract attorneys? You can do it all here on one easy-to-use platform, and possibly build ongoing work relationships in the process. Hiring the right talent has never been easier.

Getting Hired as an Esquire

The platform is just as user-friendly on the candidate side. Attorneys and paralegals have a dashboard of their own, simply designed to focus on finding jobs and entering hours when they’re on those jobs.

Log in to see if you have messages from potential employers or invitations to apply to jobs. You can also view your pending applications, open offers, and previous jobs, breaking down what you did, how much money you made, and how many hours you worked. If you have an invitation to apply, you can either do just that or you can send a message asking for more information. You’ll also see your official job offers here, which you can accept or reject.

You can always update your profile, availability, whether you’re interested in permanent or temporary roles, and your conflicts information. If you see a job that’s not right for you but you know someone else who might be a good fit, you can share it with another attorney. When you’re working a job you landed through Hire an Esquire, your time tracker is right in your dashboard, with billing parameters defined by the client. You just have to enter your time — the platform handles everything else on the administrative side.

The whole goal of Hire an Esquire is to allow freelance attorneys to be flexible and not bog them down in administrative tasks. You can just sit back and wait for the algorithms to do their work and notify you when matching jobs come in. No more spending hours searching for jobs (though you can do that here, too, if you want). Technology now does the heavy job search lifting for you.

The Logistics (or Convenient Lack Thereof)

One of the biggest perks of Hire an Esquire is that they deal with all the annoying administrative tasks, from attorney screening to final billing. Attorneys are paid directly by Hire an Esquire, who processes payroll weekly and handles things like employment taxes and mandatory sick leave, if applicable.

Hire an Esquire’s current pool is over 8,000 attorneys and growing. They thoroughly vet candidates to ensure they’re barred, in good standing, and free of disciplinary actions, and do additional background research to look for other possible red flags. The result is a highly curated talent pool that’s available now.

Better yet? It’s free to sign up, search, post, and apply. Attorneys never pay anything to use Hire an Esquire. Companies pay only a transaction fee on top of the billable rate charged for work that’s actually done. The fees are lower than market average thanks to all the automation, and they’re always 100% transparent.

Hire an Esquire has finally done something about the woefully outdated legal recruiting process. Prolonged job searches to find passable candidates no longer cut it. This platform lets you immediately find the right candidates who are available right now. Employers can fill needs on short notice, and attorneys can capitalize on the flexibility and work/life balance of the gig economy, all without the middleman. Try Hire an Esquire today, and you’ll never think about recruiting the same way again.