Law Firm Hiring in a Tight Market

What do you do when it’s a tight market, but you need people now? Here’s what it comes down to: you have to be more aggressive about going after talent.  How do you do that? Get Off Your Ass and get into action.   In this episode, we discuss: G.O.Y.A. and what it stands for in the context of this podcast. Breaking the habit of waiting for good people to respond to your boring ads. The importance of creating a careers page on your website. How to get the right people looking at your careers page by using ads. The secret to writing more powerful ads. Making use of database information on key resume sites.   Allison Bio: Allison C. Williams, Esq., is the Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney, and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law. Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest-growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm by 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest-growing companies among graduates of Florida State University. In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers. She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money. Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining, and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications, and money management in law firms.   Contact Info: https://www.lawfirmmentor.net/speak-with-a-growth-strategist   To request a link to the Law Firm Hiring in a Tight Market Webinar, email [email protected]   Register for the next webinar – Law Firm Interviewing 101 – May 26th at 10 AM ET https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EhtMmRCQQi6SDW1a9w1Kyg?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=213035137&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_0HTPISyysAF98hfjCPjJJo5a4c-mPqUuiueRAXeCtUl7aUXk_DPfIk7_XtL6YBQx9rLI40cQ7xy_NTH1XoARFZED8oX4QAk5Vje0bV3SSs67k2Cg&utm_content=213035137&utm_source=hs_email    My favorite excerpt from the episode: TIME: 00:04:58 (40 Seconds)  And one of the things that you should do in your careers page is not just describe the job, right? You don't want to just take the ad that you would post on Indeed or on Craigslist and put it on to your website. You want to go really, really deep into your ideal employee avatar, right? Who is that person that is perfect for the role, perfect for your culture? And how does that person fit with the rest of the team, i.e. you want to introduce that person to the rest of the team and the easiest way to do that is on the website so you can do things on your careers page, like embed links to other pages of the website so that you can draw someone's eye to things that really matter.