Legal Recruiter, Executive Search - Dubai
About This Role
Recruiter – Legal
📍 Dubai | Executive Search Firm
We are a leading executive search firm with specialist teams across multiple sectors, including Legal. Due to growth within our Legal practice, we are looking to hire a Legal Recruiter to join the team in Dubai or London.
Key Responsibilities:
- Market mapping and identifying high-calibre legal talent
- Headhunting and proactive outreach
- Confidently calling and engaging candidates
- Managing candidates from the first approach through to placement
- Interview preparation and ongoing candidate care
- Supporting senior mandates, including Partner-level searches
Requirements:
- Minimum 1 year of experience in legal recruitment (private practice preferred)
- Experience working within legal recruitment (agency or in-house at a law firm)
- 360 recruitment experience (a plus)
- Strong sourcing and headhunting experience
- Comfortable making outbound calls and building relationships
- Experience recruiting qualified lawyers (Associate level and above)
- Exposure to Partner-level sourcing is highly advantageous
What We Offer:
- Opportunity to work on high-level, contingent and retained search mandates
- Clear progression within a respected multi-sector executive search firm
- Supportive, high-performance environment
- Competitive base salary + performance bonus
If this sounds like you and you’re looking to move into an executive search environment in a delivery-focused role, we would love to hear from you.
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