From Experienced Recruiter to Business Owner | Andrew Inglis, Inglis Legal Recruitment

What does it take to leave a long career in someone else’s recruitment business and put your own name above the door? In Episode 3 of Launch and Lead, A Recruiter’s Blueprint, James O’Brien talks to Andrew Inglis, founder and Managing Director of Inglis Legal Recruitment, a specialist firm placing lawyers with private-practice law firms and in-house legal teams across Scotland. Andrew started out in IT recruitment and spent more than 25 years in legal recruitment before launching his own business. He talks about why the best lawyers aren’t actively looking, how a market map turned a client’s estimate of 130 lawyers into 43, why PQE isn’t the whole story, how private-practice and in-house hiring differ, his Career MOT for solicitors, and why he will walk away from a brief that comes without context. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:24 What has changed in 25 years of legal recruitment 02:28 The best lawyers aren’t actively looking 04:52 From IT recruitment to legal recruitment 07:21 Building a consultative, relationship-led firm 09:15 Why he sometimes tells lawyers to stay put 10:40 The catalyst: taking his own advice 12:06 Where firms go wrong: the market map 14:08 Why PQE isn’t the whole story 15:34 Private practice or in-house? 19:51 The Career MOT 23:31 Leading yourself as a founder 25:01 Walking away from a brief with no context 27:31 Support networks for founders 29:00 What’s next for Inglis Legal Recruitment Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6d5Czxo... Launch and Lead, A Recruiter’s Blueprint, is a weekly podcast hosted by James O’Brien about the reality of launching, building and leading a recruitment business. New episodes every Tuesday. Powered by i-intro®: Helping recruitment businesses win and deliver retained work. www.i-intro.com #LaunchAndLead #RecruitmentBusiness #LegalRecruitment