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What service does Legal Secretaries Online offer Legal Secretaries Online is a website owned by ten-percent.co.uk limited, a recruitment company exclusively for lawyers and legal support staff looking for new positions, and firms wishing to employ lawyers and support staff. The site also offers careers services for law students, lawyers and support staff as well as other related services including CV preparation. Legal recruitment consultants are in effect employment agencies attempting to locate and source new opportunities for lawyers. They work by advertising for lawyers to register with them, and then charging firms for the privilege of an introduction to the lawyers. Agencies tend to be reserved for lorry drivers and pickle factory operatives, but the principle is the same. Headhunters are consultants who either network source or cold call source (depending on your level of cynicism) lawyers and try to persuade them to change firms with offers of high salary or better terms. Most recruitment consultants offer a headhunting service and call it "search and selection". Why should I register with you? We are a specialist recruitment consultancy, concentrating specifically on permanent positions for legal secretaries in private practice (with some in-house and local authority opportunities as well) in the UK and abroad. We have an ethical policy, an environmental policy, a privacy policy, we donate 10% of our annual profits to charity and we are good at securing and locating new opportunities for lawyers registered with us. Read our feedback page for comments from previous service-users. ten-percent is managed by solicitors. Why do recruitment consultants exist? Good question! Partly because there is a nationwide shortage of a certain standard of secretary and lawyer, and secondly, because finding a new opportunity is not often simply a case of looking in the local paper at the situations vacant page. At any one time, there may be 6 or 7 adverts for a particular area of the country, but we will know that 25 to 50 firms in that area have vacancies but not advertised them. Firms do not advertise partly because they know that consultants can assist, and secondly because the cost of advertising is prohibitive for the return they will get. How many agencies should I register with? How long is a piece of string? We cannot answer this question with any authority because we would like it if you only registered with us! It depends on your circumstances. A quick example may assist. If you are an experienced crime secretary in Manchester, looking for positions in Manchester City Centre, there are about 35 firms you could apply to for work. If you register with 3 agencies, each one will send either your full CV, anonymous details or a briefing letter to each firm, causing a headache for both you and the firm. We would advise you not to register with more than one agency to begin with, allow the agency about 2 weeks to provide you with details of any firms interested, and then consider registering with others after that time.
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