{"id":3226,"date":"2025-03-18T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.thesrgroup.com\/taylorroot\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:19:11","slug":"a-career-in-recruitment-a-lawyers-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taylorroot.com\/nl\/career-advice\/a-career-in-recruitment-a-lawyers-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"A career in recruitment: a lawyer’s perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What attracted you to a career in law?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There were a couple of reasons. First, I liked the idea of having a profession behind me and having a clear career trajectory; it felt like a stable and secure job. Second, I also liked the idea of working with people and having that interaction as client and adviser. Third, I liked the variety on offer in terms of there being a whole host of different areas you can specialise in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were the reasons for leaving law?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed my training contract; I liked the fact that you had six months stints in different departments, as I enjoyed the variety and learning a different area of practice kept it fresh. Once the excitement of qualification and securing a job had worn off (and I was around one-year PQE), I had the sense that my career in law was stretching ahead of me and I no longer felt enthused by it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had no desire to become a partner and I found myself getting frustrated by the way lawyers are encouraged to work; being at the mercy of clients and the focus being on how many hours you can bill. I also wasn\u2019t getting that face-to-face interaction that had been one of the reasons that initially attracted me to a career in law (a lot, understandably, is done by email or over the phone). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew deep down that I didn\u2019t want to stay in the law, but it felt like a huge decision to move away from it, particularly when I had spent a long time working hard to get there, so I kept at it. I wasn\u2019t miserable, I had just lost my motivation and drive, which wasn\u2019t a good feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I explored other options, such as moving in-house.<\/a> This felt like it would be a good steppingstone but upon landing some interviews, I still had that feeling that I wanted to move away from law completely and that moving in-house would just be buying me time.  It was through my potential move in-house that I started to meet with legal recruiters<\/a> and became more immersed in the world of legal recruitment and that door was opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I made the decision to move, I felt such a sense of freedom and relief, so knew it had been the right choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n