Great people, connected with great firms.
We help law firms and growing, people-driven businesses hire the right people and build a workplace they want to stay in. We learn your firm first. Then we find the person, and help them stay.
Founded by Angela Tait · MSOD, Pepperdine · SHRM-CP · Author, The Human Capital Playbook
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- MSOD, Pepperdine
- SHRM-CP
- Author, The Human Capital Playbook
- Speaker, ALA Arizona Chapter
- Host, Legal Grounds
You’ve hired impressive people before and watched it not work out
It usually wasn’t the résumé. It’s that nobody took the time to understand how your firm runs, who your team already is, and what this role has to carry.
A senior hire who doesn’t fit costs more than a search fee. It costs months, momentum, and the confidence of everyone watching. Sometimes the deeper truth is that the problem was never one seat. It’s how the organization around that seat is built.
Most recruiters can only solve the first problem. You need someone who can see both.
We’re not a staffing agency with a bigger vocabulary
Tait Consulting was founded by Angela Tait, who has spent her career on every side of this problem: as a recruiter, as an HR executive, and as a people operations strategist with a Master’s in Organization Development from Pepperdine. That combination is rare, and it’s the whole point. We don’t just find people, we understand the organizations they’re joining.
Angela is a patient, yet tenacious recruiter. We work with her on recruiting executive and complex hires and she has been able to achieve success despite the challenging requirements we give her.
Angela assisted our organization in recruitment and hiring process of a key member of our Executive Leadership Team. She assisted our team with initial screening process, interview scheduling, interview structure/timeline, follow up, and the negotiation process. I found Angela to be extremely competent, professional, organized, and knowledgeable in the executive recruiting process.
Angela worked hard to both understand and deliver upon the expectations we had as the client. She is knowledgeable, personable, great to work with and has very strong presentation skills. I highly recommend Angela for your recruitment needs as she will be a great resource for your organization.
Hire someone exceptional, or fix what keeps costing you people
Recruiting & search
When you need to hire well, whether that’s a paralegal, an administrator, an operations or marketing leader, or an attorney the firm can’t afford to get wrong, we run a search grounded in how your firm works rather than in a job description.
Everyday roles get filled with care. Attorney and executive searches are handled selectively, often on a retained basis, because those hires deserve real focus.
Best when the seat matters and the last search didn’t land.HR & people strategy
When the challenge is bigger than one hire, covering performance, culture, retention, org design, or the systems a growing firm needs, we work alongside your leadership as a strategic people partner, including leadership development and coaching for the managers who carry your culture.
This is the work most recruiters can’t do. It’s where our deepest expertise lives, and often where the real problem was all along.
Best when you keep solving the same problem with new people.Many clients begin with a search and stay for the partnership.
The TAIT Framework
Every engagement is built on a framework refined over a career. Four dimensions that take an organization from a single hire to a team that runs.
Talent
Find the right people, matched to the organization rather than to the opening.
Alignment
Align people, purpose, leadership, and culture so they do their best work.
Innovation
Bring modern thinking and technology to how you hire and how you operate.
Teams
Build high-performing teams and the structure to grow without breaking.
Recruiting draws on the first. People operations strategy draws on all four. Together they’re why our understanding goes deeper than a placement.
We know how a firm runs
Associates and laterals. Paralegals and legal assistants. Firm administrators, marketing and operations leaders. We understand billable capacity, partner time, practice-area fit, and why the last two hires didn’t stick.
Hiring for your firm
Attorney, legal staff and leadership recruiting built around how your firm actually works, not a generic job description. Then HR support so the people you hire stay and grow.
See how we work with law firms →In the room with you
We’re part of Arizona’s legal community: speaking to the ALA Arizona Chapter on building high-performing hiring systems, and hosting Legal Grounds, our attorney networking and CLE series.
Ask about the next Legal Grounds event.Not a law firm? You’re still in the right place
The things that make a law firm work (trust, relationships, reputation, and a small team carrying a lot) are true of many businesses. If your people are your product, we speak your language.
- Accounting & wealth firms
- Medical & dental practices
- Nonprofits
- Founder-led companies
- Professional services
A clear process, and a real person at every step
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A conversation
We listen, ask the questions others skip, and tell you plainly whether we can help.
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We learn your firm
Your goals, your team, your culture, and what this seat has to carry, turned into a hiring blueprint and interview scorecard.
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We find and vet
A job description people want to read, targeted outreach, pre-screens, structured interviews, and candid conversations with every finalist.
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We close and follow through
Offer and negotiation support, then check-ins after the start date, because a hire isn’t finished on day one.
We represent candidates honestly. The right hire has to be right for them too.
We’ll tell you when we’re not the fit. And point you to someone who is.
We do HR, not just recruiting. A great hire needs a workplace worth staying in.
Most recruiters have never built an organization from the inside
Angela has. She’s led HR, designed people operations, and studied organization development at the graduate level, which means she reads a hiring problem the way your best advisors read your business. Structurally, rather than on the surface.
That’s the difference you feel. You’re not handed a stack of résumés and left to guess. You’re working with someone who understands what the role has to hold, who your team already is, and what it will take for the next person to succeed once they’re in the seat.
Angela Tait
Angela built Tait Consulting on a conviction that hiring and organizational health are the same conversation, and that both come down to people being understood.
She brings an unusual range to that work: the rigor of an HR executive and organization-development scholar, and the intuition of someone who reads people quickly and well. She’s curious about what makes an organization tick and honest about what she sees. As a mother and a businesswoman, she knows what it takes to build something that has to work, and to care about the people inside it rather than only the outcome.
Clients describe working with her as clarifying. She asks the questions others don’t think to ask, sees the possibility in a team, and tells you the truth kindly.
- Author, The Human Capital Playbook
- MSOD, Pepperdine University
- SHRM-CP certified
- Speaker, ALA Arizona Chapter
- Host, Legal Grounds
Tait Consulting is growing. If you believe hiring is about people first, we’d love to meet you.
Let’s talk about who, or what, you’re trying to build
Whether you need to hire someone exceptional or solve a people challenge you haven’t fully named yet, the first conversation is the same. We listen, and we tell you plainly whether we can help.
The alternative is another year of hoping the next hire sticks, or a people problem that quietly compounds. You don’t have to keep guessing at this alone.
A short call with Angela. No pitch deck. Or email us at recruiting@taitconsultingllc.com.
Based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Working with law firms and people-driven businesses across Arizona, Southern California and beyond.
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