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Why your tech is only as effective as the people you hire

Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2025 by Jon Shepherd

How tech has changed the way we hire From AI chatbots to social media response tools, person-to-person business transactions are slowly being outsmarted by digital automation, one revolutionary piece of software at a time. In my daily conversations with Business Development (BD) leads in law firms, I’m hearing about the rising interest and investment in digital tools. This is a big change for ...

Hiring, empowering and nurturing female talent

Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2025 by Hannah Hassack

Employers – raise awareness, but first raise your game A stark majority of candidates (80%) actively seek employers who demonstrate a strong commitment to gender parity*. Although this has been a fantastic progression, which has forced hiring firms to cement their contributions to equality for women, it’s not easy for job-hunters to identify the organisations who truly and tangibly push this ...

Tis’ the season to be agile! The game-changing benefits of temporary contracts

Posted on Thursday, December 19, 2024 by Gemma Coyston

Just when you thought it was business as usual...it’s not! The last few years have been transformative for large corporations and SMEs alike, and we’re noticing this manifesting in the way employers are building their teams. A fast-changing economy and shifting workforce expectations have prompted businesses to reimagine their workforces and embrace far more flexible and diverse hiring ...

30 years of building world-class legal teams

Posted on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast & Callum Smith

This year we’re celebrating our 30th anniversary as a company! We’re so proud to marking three whole decades of working with top global law firms, empowering candidates to find the right role, and helping legal teams to move into the future with the very best talent for their business. Although we can’t quite believe we’re already hitting such a big milestone, the years show in the progress we’ve ...

The power of age diversity: hiring and nurturing multigenerational teams

Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

Why multigenerational teams are a common characteristic of modern businesses Longer average lifespans, extended retirement ages and growing inclusivity equals a multigenerational modern workforce, with teams now spanning up to five generations - Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation. The latter group, who reportedly count for 2% of employees*, literally ...

A summer of pro bono workshops: upskilling legal placement students

Posted on Thursday, September 5, 2024 by CJ Obi

Empowering and upskilling young people It's always been really important to Ryder Reid that we’re generous with our knowledge and resources, and we work hard as a team to remain active in our commitment to empowering young people with the skills they need to access a Legal career. We believe all businesses have a big responsibility to do what they can to help a wide pool of young people learn, ...

Securing top Exec talent amidst the changing leadership landscape in global law firms

Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

Modern leadership in global law firms In my 26 years placing executives in top global law firms, I’ve witnessed a sector-shaking shift in what the Legal field wants from its leaders. An industry working hard to diversify, a greater spectrum of client demand, evolving markets and competitive landscapes, the weighty impact of the pandemic on day-to-day operations — these are just a few of the ...

The risk of tokenism in recruitment: why hiring firms need a sound DEI strategy

Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by Andrea Prendergast

The push for diverse and inclusive recruitment It’s well recognised that there’s been a collective push to drive Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) forward across the corporate world, and visible efforts are being made to instil DEI into the DNA of how organisations and their people operate, think and feel. Wonderfully, this hugely positive change is felt in recruitment too. I’m witnessing a ...

How law firms are working to boost social mobility in legal

Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

Businesses have a huge role in Social Mobility Social mobility is about empowering everyone, regardless of their socio-economic background, to fulfil their potential. When we talk about social mobility, we talk about equal opportunities. Everyone deserves to thrive regardless of where they were born, their financial status, their education, their ethnicity, and so on. But for this to happen, to ...

Why employee wellbeing starts at the hiring stage

Posted on Thursday, May 16, 2024 by Hannah Hassack

Your job has a profound impact on your wellbeing I often think about this concept in the job that we do here at Ryder Reid Legal, and in relation to peoples working lives. The average person spends 90,000 hours at work in their lifetime! Given this, the impact of your working life on your wellbeing is not small. If our job is potentially our biggest lifelong time commitment, it stands to reason ...