What is the value of an advocate?

You obviously know the answer, and this question seem almost bizarre. However, as specialised legal recruitment consultants, we frequently encounter similar sceptical comments. What is the “added value” of partnering with an external niche recruitment agency? The reservations vary and are often expressed as: ‘Isn’t it very expensive to just present a few CVs?’ or ‘What can you do for me and my career path? I know what I want, and I have an extensive qualitative network myself.’ So, what exactly is our added value?

Career Advocate

For both parties – in the jargon “candidate” and “client” – the same answer applies: Steve Skills looks after your professional interests first and foremost, advising and guiding you in your career or in strengthening your team. We are, so to speak, the advocate of your career or your team. This includes screening of drivers and career trajectories, salary benchmarking, insider job market and network information, offering legal interim management opportunities and concretely filling in and guiding a career switch. We also strengthen your team, take a close look at your employer and personal branding and analyse how you as a firm can attract and – more importantly – retain talent.

Right

Just as in your profession, the quality of our legal talent consultants as contacts is distinctive and even decisive. How do we guarantee this? We focus on three pillars: academic background, continuous in-depth training and finally: attitude. Each of our legal talent consultants has at least a Master’s degree in Law, is your ex-confrater or has built up a first or more mature expertise in a demanding work environment. The métier of recruitment & selection is a technical profession. It is an analytical function, where through asking the right questions, as well as continuous testing and validation, two parties are brought together.

The ambition -depending on the type of contract- is to enter into a short-term or long-term relationship with the common goal: to deliver mutual added value. Besides a substantive quality check and in-depth recurrent analysis of drivers and motivation, our profession requires excellent communication, negotiation and leadership skills from our consultants to arrive at “the right lawyer, in the right team of the right law firm”.

Attitude

Finally, we come to the differentiator: attitude. We have articulated and chiselled this into our mission statement and three core values. “Boosting Professional Energy” is what we do it for. After all, a team with ‘goesting’ – to use a nice Flemish word – moves mountains and creates added value at all levels. Each one of us exudes our three corporate values: curiosity, ambition and generosity. It is the common thread between the strong personalities of our team and also summarises our service.

Continuous legal learning with Juriwise

For every step in your career, it is essential to keep learning and refining your skills. As ‘curiosity’ is one of our company’s core values, we are happy to introduce you to our continuous legal learning content partner: Juriwise. With a service similar to a Netflix subscription for legal e-learning, you get access to a wide range of accredited courses in various areas of law for deepening, refreshing or gaining new insights as well as non-legal training.