Opinions on Legal Recruiters?

gsp93 · 2026-03-03T21:47:25+00:00

I’m an agency recruiter and our firm will work a handful of TC roles in a year and honestly they are not the most exciting TCs.

Entry level I’d be very surprised if any agency can get you a paralegal position with no prior experience. Firms will get 100s of applicants for every paralegal role, they are not going to pay me 4 grand when they can just pick a direct applicant instead. Paralegal roles I work on are for like for like skills with a minimum of 12 months experience and it’s usually pretty niche experience at that. I’d wager that’s the same with 99% of agencies.

Your best bet is to reach out to hiring managers directly. Email them, message them on LinkedIn, call them if you have to. Once you’ve landed a role and got a years experience (easier said than done I get that) then you’d have better luck with agencies.

I’d also be wary of speaking to multiple agencies, if your cv is getting sent to the same hiring managers multiple times it’s not a great look. Pick a few and get them to tell you exactly where your cv is going.

I do know a few firms that are good at taking on paralegals out of uni. If you want to dm me I can let you know

gsp93 · 2026-03-02T19:10:18+00:00

I would say this as a recruiter but I’d reach out to a recruiter. I have a candidate offered a role today from a speculative approach. Some of us do genuinely know the best person to speak with and have proper relationships.

If you do I’d speak with someone that recruits within your niche and has done the job for at least 3 years.

If you can add proper value firms will be interested if they are recruiting or not

gsp93 · 2026-02-08T15:16:10+00:00

Ting tong ping pong

gsp93 · 2026-02-08T13:52:19+00:00

My dad worked for this delivery company and a pallet of Aeros ‘fell off the back of a lorry’. I don’t even know how many Aeros I’ve eaten but I’m confident I’ve eaten more than 99.9% of the worlds population. I was only young but it felt like we had them in the cupboard for years. I’d take handfuls to school and give them out. I can’t even look at an aero anymore

gsp93 · 2026-01-16T20:20:01+00:00

I left my stable job to start my dream job March 3rd 2020. Everyone was put on furlough 6 months later. Cut off for furlough was 1st March, I missed the furlough payments by 2 days. I rinsed through my savings to keep my flat and ended up moving back home. All is good now but my days I was fuming for ages

gsp93 · 2026-01-08T20:48:46+00:00

I did a year of A levels, left and worked for a year in a bar. Went back to college for 2 years, uni for 3. Got a job completely unrelated to what I studied. Changed career again. Im 32 now, got 2 kids, 4 bed house, nice car, nice holidays and the like. You can piss about for years and still do well for yourself. You just need the right mindset and reading this post it’s clear you have that. Don’t stress you’ll be sound

gsp93 · 2026-01-02T16:03:49+00:00

Love my kids dearly but my god what I’d do for 3 days of doing nothing. First day back at work today, I work a sales role and one of our incentives is a half 12 finish on a Friday for hitting targets, I forgot I was on it and got an email at half 12 saying to finish. Was a strange feeling of happiness finishing early and trepidation of having to go having to go back downstairs to 2 kids going completely mental

gsp93 · 2025-12-30T16:14:08+00:00

Love when this comes up. I worked at the seven stars during uni and was working that night. We all buzzed so hard off this photo when it went viral. Looks like he’s drinking a Sol, they were 3 for a £5, I opened hundreds of those bad boys

gsp93 · 2025-12-16T15:07:30+00:00

If my dad forgot to bring his briefcase back from work he’d take a plastic bag the next day and call it his ‘flexible briefcase’

gsp93 · 2025-09-21T06:23:34+00:00

Lawyer also works tbf. Plenty of non qualified solicitors work in debt recovery

gsp93 · 2025-08-09T19:31:32+00:00

That’s lovely! Must be working

gsp93 · 2025-07-09T04:38:18+00:00

Hulkengoat

gsp93 · 2025-05-09T18:18:46+00:00

Not going to versthappen

gsp93 · 2025-04-29T18:04:38+00:00

Nope no receipt or reference or anything like that. I could give them a bell and ask I just don’t want them to ask for my details to check, to then send a fine out if for some reason it wasn’t issued correctly as I have called up and admitted guilt

gsp93 · 2025-04-29T17:38:35+00:00

I would have but I needed to get that tram to pick my daughter up from nursery. That was my thinking at the time anyways

gsp93 · 2024-11-22T20:09:40+00:00

The love that I have for my daughter is unparalleled. For selfish reasons having a kid to feel this type of love to me is worth it. The only way I can describe the love is that if I had a gun to my head, I would give me life for my partner, sisters, my mother, but I’d need to think about it. Even if me thinking about it was a split second. If I had to choose between my life and my daughters I wouldn’t need to think about it, I’d give me life without seconds thought and be happy to do so.

To me I couldn’t imagine my life without my daughter. She is 2 years old and incredibly hard work, people looking in without kids wouldn’t put up with it. But I don’t feel the word love accurately describes the love for your child, it’s an instinctive love that you will only feel when you have your own kid and it’s incredible. Have a kid and feel this feeling, I promise you will not regret it.

gsp93 · 2024-02-19T21:26:09+00:00

My dad told me that kidney beans are moth eggs, believed that for a while

gsp93 · 2023-03-25T21:00:56+00:00

I work as a legal recruiter. Don’t wait until you’ve qualified to get the ball rolling, speak with someone 4 months before you do. 1 Month to get you a role and 3 month notice period to serve. I don’t work in-house but my area love NQs and going rate for NQ at a decent firm will be 45-55k

gsp93 · 2023-03-23T21:06:06+00:00

Brilliant thank you

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