Careers in Recruitment

Taylor Root was my first legal recruitment job after training to be a lawyer with Herbert Smith and I immediately felt at home. The company has a distinct culture; hardworking but laidback, friendly, professional and honest. I joined in London and moved out to Singapore soon afterwards to help open the new office. This was invaluable experience in launching into a new market and I was proud to see the office grow to become the leading legal search agency in SE Asia.

I’m now leading the build-out of the brand in the North America market, so have relocated to New York, supported by our global leadership team in all our other offices.

Having a background in Occupational Psychology, meant working with people was a key motivator in my decision to choose recruitment as a career path. Working at Carter Murray has allowed me to grow and develop with support from fantastic team members in a professional and fun environment.

It has opened up opportunities for self-development and a sense of achievement within an imaginative and ambitious team who really do make working here a real joy!

When Taylor Root offered me the position I didn’t hesitate on the offer and joined. Having worked both for classic partner led executive search firms as well as a listed international agency I found Taylor Root to be the best of both worlds. Here we are free to set priorities according to our strengths and interests while having the support and structure of a well-established brand.

Only a firm like Taylor Root with its truly global approach offers the opportunity to fulfil these needs.

Prior to going into recruitment, I worked in software sales for a global FTSE Tech company. A friend of mine who was doing really well in recruitment knew I was getting tired of driving up and down the M1 visiting various IT managers and so he suggested coming in for a meeting. Although I had not considered legal and compliance recruitment before I liked the fact that I would be working in a corporate environment, dealing directly with decision makers and hiring managers. I was also attracted by the opportunity to target clients and grow my desk in the way that I wanted. 

Tatum is an associate consultant in our London office and graduated with an LLM in 2018. Whilst looking at training contract roles Tatum spoke with several legal recruitment agencies and it soon became apparent that a career in legal recruitment really appealed to her, allowing her to use the knowledge studying whilst being part of a self-driven, progressive industry. Read more about Tatum’s journey into legal recruitment. 

When I told The SR Group about my plans to relocate, they did everything they could to help me find a job and explored internal options for me too. I ended up being offered the role of Office Manager which made the move much less stressful knowing that I had a role waiting for me when I arrived.

Read more about Charlotte's relocation from London to Sydney here.

Mark graduated from the University of Surrey with a degree in law and worked as a paralegal for over three years before joining Taylor Root. He has spent almost three years recruiting lawyers, both on a permanent and interim basis, as well as paralegals into private practice in London.

Following his relocation to Singapore in 2019, he will continue to specialise in private practice recruitment, sourcing associates and heading up the paralegal desk for premium international law firms across Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. 

Click here to read Mark's thoughts and advice on his relocation to Singapore.