Legal Assistant
Recruitment Specialists

At MJD Recruitment, we want to connect you with the best Legal Support or Paralegal that meets your needs, and we have fine-tuned a detailed process to make sure we put only the right people forward for consideration. The more specific you are in both your job description and our briefing meeting, the easier it is to match you with the right candidate. We aim to source people with the right skillset for the role, as well as the right ‘fit’ ’for your organisation. Fit means finding someone that suits your workplace culture with the right motivations for being and wanting to stay there.

1. We search our extensive networks of candidates across multiple channels including LinkedIn, Seek and our own exclusive database. Some of these candidates are active in the market and some are passive, asking us to contact them only with very specific job opportunities.

2. Our team of Consultants and Talent Coordinators liaise and nurture relationships with these individuals daily and are across the best of the best talent in the office support market and exactly what is attracting them to be open to a move. As the largest specialist office support recruitment agency in Australia you can be assured that our networks are unrivalled and extensive3. We also place advertisements on multiple channels to ensure that we are attracting anybody new in the market that might be interested. Our networks are attracted to our advertisements as they know the calibre of clients that we work with and quality of job opportunities that we seek to represent them to

4. Our referral program has us reaching out to high quality networks in similar positions who are well connected and ensure that your job opportunity is seen by an even wider audience

5. Once our screening process is complete we conduct interviews using the behavioural based interviewing technique, allowing us to assess talent by considering past experiences to predict likely future behaviour and competency in your role. Our reference checks are conducted in a similar manner cross referencing details discussed at interview.

Are you an employer looking for a recruitment agency that will represent you proficiently in sourcing a Paralegal of Legal Office Support role that will make a genuine difference in your support function?

The first thing to consider is if the recruitment agency is a specialist in the sector that you are recruiting within, its all about who you know in recruitment, as well as what you know about how they are driven to perform.

Recruiting the role of Legal Support requires particular focus on ensuring that the candidate has the right motivators for each individual role, as well as the right fit for the culture and team they will be supporting. The MJD Recruitment team are trained to know that when office support recruitment is managed with care for fit as well as skillset, its results in greater longevity and stronger productivity. Our Consultants have strong business acumen and have a continuous learning program that ensures they can add value as advisors to your business, not just fill vacancies. They are industry specialists who can advise on things like salary, market trends, competitors, employee value propositions that attract high quality talent, interview techniques, handling counter offers and what it takes to win over a candidate at interview.

A brand representative. Remember once you hand your vacancy over to a recruitment agency they become the first representative of your brand. Consider the way that they represent themselves and if this is reflective in the way you want your candidates to view your organisation. Are they professional, knowledgeable, influential, well connected and savvy? What are their google or independent reviews saying about their service, their professionalism and their genuine care factor for the recruitment process?

Finally, remember that working exclusively with an agency unlocks multiple advantages. When you work with MJD Recruitment exclusively we are able to dedicate a stronger focus on a quality process rather than a quick one, the candidate experience is better as they like working with agencies who have strong business partnerships with their clients, you have control over your brand representation and information about your business going out to the market and it makes it possible for us to reduced our fee.