Posted: 07-Mar-23
Location: Los Angeles, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: $75-85k
Salary Details:
Preferred Education:
Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.
Based in Los Angeles, the Recruiting Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating many activities and processes involved in on-campus recruiting throughout each recruiting season and assist in aspects of lateral associate recruiting and hiring. Your responsibilities as a Recruiting Coordinator will include working with the Los Angeles Senior Recruiting Manager, Recruiting Assistant and Chief Recruiting Officer in all phases of recruiting and development efforts for new attorneys, lateral hires, transfers, and summer associates while accomplishing these and other critical functions.
This role reports to the Los Angeles Senior Recruiting Manager.
Responsibilities include:
- Collaborate with the Los Angeles Senior Recruiting Manager and Recruiting Assistant in planning and managing the office’s overall recruitment efforts, including summer, new, and lateral associate recruiting.
- Play an integral role in the Los Angeles office’s recruitment leadership and team.
- Acts as liaison to summer associates, law school career services offices, prospective lateral candidates and Gibson Dunn lawyers and staff to ensure smooth hiring process.
- Assist in reviewing and selecting summer, new and lateral candidates’ applications for consideration by Hiring Committee.
- Assist in preparing and managing summer program budget and calendar of events and collaborate with summer coordinators and hiring partner on execution.
- Coordinate and attend summer associate social and training events.
- Organize and assist in the management of the on-campus interview logistics for the office’s assigned schools and firm-wide interview teams.
- Direct all aspects of candidate visits and fall recruitment callbacks with fellow Recruiting Department members.
- Organize follow-up receptions and other events for the office’s assigned schools.
- Maintain recruiting records, hiring reports and statistics.
- Manage offer extension process and correspond with candidates who have offers.
- Attend the annual Hiring Committee Spring Meeting.
- Attend Los Angeles Legal Recruiting Administrators Association meetings and events.
- Perform additional duties as assigned by the Los Angeles Senior Recruiting Manager.
Qualifications:
- Ideal candidate must have initiative, and exhibit independent thinking and creativity.
- Excellent written and oral communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle high volume, and juggle multiple projects and tasks with great attention to detail.
- The ability to work collaboratively and openly, a great team player.
- Must consistently display good judgment and maintain confidence of personal and sensitive information.
Experience:
- University degree
- Minimum of 2 years of legal recruiting experience
- Some event planning experience required
- Proficiency in the use of computer programs including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Experience with budgets preferred
Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.
