More than a recruiter. An extension of your firm.
We help law firms hire the people who shape their culture and results, from legal professionals to firm leadership. And when the challenge extends beyond hiring, we help build the organization where great people thrive.
- CNN
- Fast Company
- U.S. News
- SHRM
- MSOD, Pepperdine
- SHRM-CP
- Author, The Human Capital Playbook
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 assisted our organization in recruitment and hiring process of a key member of our Executive Leadership Team. I found Angela to be extremely competent, professional, organized, and knowledgeable in the executive recruiting process. I highly recommend Angela.
Angela is a very knowledgeable professional who is willing to share her knowledge in hiring and recruiting. The time I spent with her not only helped with my written presentation, but the conversation we had gave me confidence and belief in myself.
Angela was a pleasure to work with. She is timely and very efficient.
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.People operations 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.
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.
Our home is law firms
Organizations where people, relationships, and reputation carry the weight, and where a wrong senior hire does outsized damage.
Law firms
Attorney and leadership recruiting, legal staff and operations hiring, and people operations strategy for firms building teams their clients trust.
See the law firm practice →Also serving
We bring the same approach to select healthcare and mission-driven nonprofit organizations where culture and leadership are just as consequential.
Selective engagements, same standard of care.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
- Featured in CNN, Fast Company, U.S. News, SHRM
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.
Or email us at recruiting@taitconsultingllc.com.