Any organization is driven by a team and it’s the right team that helps to achieve the goal and growth. Building the right team is one of the most challenging things for any business. Why is hiring challenging?

1. Every human is different and dealing with them is not easy.
2. Lack of process.

Nothing could be done on point #1, anyways you’ll have to deal with it. But the Right Process can help you to get the right resource at your law firm.

Here are the 5 points that could help you to hire the right resources at your law firm:

1. Clarity about the Position
   • Skills
   • Attitude & Personal Values
   • Experiences
   • Cost to Firm
   • Specific College/ Organization
2. Quantitative Approach (Not an Opinion Based Hiring)
   Somebody communicates so well or dressed well, these are the qualities that create a very positive impact. Many times, the panel is blown on these qualities only without assessing the other skills. This is called opinion-based hiring.
   
   The ideal is we should make a list of desired skills along with the weightage. The table might look as below:

   #	Skill	Total Weightage	Your Scores	Comments
   1	Corporate Law	30	25
   2	Mergers & Acquisitions	30	25
   3	Communication & Personality	20	10
   4	Prior Experiences	10	8
   5	Academics	10	7
   TOTAL		100	75

   If you do this exercise, you clearly know why you are selecting/ rejecting any candidate. Also, if rejected, is that skill is something that could be compromised to get the candidate considering their role and responsibilities.

3. Maintain Clear Communications
   • Keep the Candidate Informed. Most of the organizations keep a long pause of silence between each step of recruitment. For example, once screening/ interview is done, the candidate is not updated for a couple of weeks, if they only call then the organization updates. That creates a very bad impression of the firm.
   • Transparency. Clearly inform about Job Location, Responsibilities, Organization Structure, Compensation, and Bonus, etc. It’s very important that the candidate should know all these things at the beginning itself. Many times, recruiters open on such critical things at a later stage, that’s not ideal.
4. Interview Process
   • Make a Systematic Process. Screening, Introductory Call, Schedule the Interviews/ Meetings, HR Round then Offer.
   • Right Panel as per Skills/ Experience you’re going to hire. Many times, it’s the same set of people interviewing candidates for any kind of position.
5. Leverage the Technology Technology can help you tremendously to achieve Speed and Accuracy along with the Process.

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