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Recruiting Coordinator

New York

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Based in Los Angeles, the Recruiting Coordinator is responsible for coordinating all activities and processes involved in law school recruiting throughout each recruiting season and all aspects of lateral associate recruiting and hiring.  Your responsibilities as a Recruiting Coordinator will include working with the Los Angeles Recruiting Senior Manager, Recruiting Specialist and Chief Recruiting Officer in all phases of recruiting and development efforts for new attorneys, lateral hires, transfers, and summer associates while accomplishing these and other critical functions. 

The Recruiting Coordinator will report to the Los Angeles Senior Manager, Recruiting.

Responsibilities include:

  • Collaborating with the Los Angeles Recruiting Senior Manager & Specialist in planning and managing the office’s overall recruitment efforts, including summer, new, and lateral associate recruiting.
  • Playing an integral role in the Los Angeles office’s recruitment leadership and team.
  • Acting as a liaison to summer associates, law school career services offices, prospective lateral candidates and Gibson Dunn lawyers and staff to ensure smooth hiring process.
  • Assisting with reviewing and selecting summer, new and lateral candidates’ applications for consideration by Hiring Committee.
  • Supporting Recruiting Specialist and Summer Coordinators in planning and executing the office’s annual summer program – administration, budget and calendar of events.
  • Attending summer associate social events when required. 
  • Organizing and assisting in the management of the on-campus interview logistics for the office’s assigned schools and firm-wide interview teams.
  • Directing all aspects of candidate visits and law student recruitment callbacks with fellow Recruiting Department members.
  • Organizing follow-up dinners and other events for the office’s assigned schools.
  • Maintaining recruitment records, hiring reports and statistics.
  • Attending the annual Hiring Committee Spring Meeting.
  • Attending Los Angeles Area Legal Recruiting Association meetings and events.
  • Providing administrative support for and performing additional duties as assigned by the Los Angeles Recruiting Senior Manager.

Qualifications:

  • Ideal candidate must have initiative and exhibit independent thinking and creativity.
  • Excellent written and oral communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
  • The ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle high volume, and juggle multiple projects and tasks with great attention to detail.
  • Must consistently display good judgment and maintain confidence of personal and sensitive information.

Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • This position prefers a minimum of three years’ legal recruiting experience.
  • Proficiency in the use of computer programs including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint). 
  • Some event planning experience required.

Gibson Dunn will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of local law.

Compensation & Benefits:

The annual compensation range for this position is $75-85k. The salary offered within this range will depend upon qualifications and other operational considerations.

Benefits offered for this position include health care; retirement benefits; paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time; parental leave; basic life insurance; Flexible Spending Accounts; as well as discretionary, performance-based bonuses.

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For technical difficulties with our online application, please contact us at staffrecruiting@gibsondunn.com. Our recruiting support team will respond as soon as possible.

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Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities.  We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience.  The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
 
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or otherwise take part in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting-accommodations@gibsondunn.com.
Please note, this is a dedicated email inbox established exclusively to assist applicants with accommodation request related to the recruitment process.  Inquiries about the status of an application or other non-accommodation matter will not receive a response.

 

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