Meet Our Team: Emilie Essers
Meet Emilie Essers, our Legal Recruitment Consultant for law firms 🏢. With her successful 4+ year track record as a commercial and corporate lawyer at a leading Belgian law firm 📚⚖️, Emilie joined our thriving team seeking to impact ‘legal from the other side’ 🔍💡.
Together with Ségolène Geeraert, she creates an influential duo 🌟, making a significant difference in the careers of individual lawyers and the collective success of law firm teams 🚀👩⚖️👨⚖️.
Get to know Emilie in this short Q&A 📄❓
Q: What is the quality you most like in a person?
A: Cheekiness.
Q: Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
A: Misschien/een beetje.
Q: If your role was a genre of music, what would it be?
A: Disco – always groovy and full of surprises.
Q: How do you unwind after a busy day?
A: Facetime with friends and family.
Q: What is your favourite food?
A: Anything I do not have to cook myself.
Q: Which working type is the best for you: Remote vs the Office?
A: Both have its advantages, but I love coming to the office to work along the colleagues.
Q: What’s your favourite office snack?
A: Coffee – fuel for productivity.
Q: What’s your favourite part of the morning routine?
A: Talking to the colleagues and then opening my mailbox to find new opportunities (candidates, vacancies, …)
Q: Why are you interested in law?
A: It changes the world on all levels: personally, environmentally, mentally, spiritually, financially, …
Q: What motivates you at Steve Skills?
A: People: Colleagues, Candidates, Contacts
Q: What part of recruiting do you find to be the most rewarding?
A: Achieving personal goals, grateful candidates and clients when you find the right match.
Q: What do most successful recruiters have in common?
A: Perseverance.
Q: What’s a common misconception about your job?
A: That it’s easy, just chatting all day long.
Q: What’s the most unusual item in your workspace?
A: A garden gnome who gives me the finger named Franky.