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After the year we have all had, it comes as no surprise that many of our perspectives and priorities in life have evolved. This is not limited to our personal lives; as recruiters, we have seen a real change in what both job seekers and companies looking to hire consider as desirables. From a candidate’s point of view, we have seen that time with family is not only possible,...

During this past year we have been challenged beyond what could ever have been reasonably conceivable. In such unprecedented times and a period of incredible upheaval and tremendous uncertainty, why then should we also #ChooseToChallenge, on top of the daily challenges that we have no choice about? Because, whilst we have come so far, there is still further to go. There is s...

2020 was a year without precedent – we could never have imagined the challenges and the disruption that arose as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The way that law firms and lawyers across the world have risen to these challenges evidences the resilience and the adaptability of the people in the legal profession.   The commentary in this report has been prepared, not only b...

Welcome to the Taylor Root 2020 Global In-house Market Report & COVID-19 Impact Survey. In what has been an unprecedented year of uncertainty, we felt that it was more vital than ever that our annual commentary on the in-house market was being informed not only by our global team of specialist consultants but also by you. The full report contains: • Overview of the Global Le...

Welcome to the Taylor Root 2020 Global In-house Market Report & COVID-19 Impact Survey. In what has been an unprecedented year of uncertainty, we felt that it was more vital than ever that our annual commentary on the in-house market was being informed not only by our global team of specialist consultants but also by you. The full report contains: • Overview of the Global Le...

The SR Group stands with the Black community, committed to the unalienable truth that Black Lives Matter. We've spent time listening, learning, and reflecting on how we can better equip our staff, leadership, clients and community to seek to understand and call out bias. It is up to us all to do more to dismantle the systemic structures which create barriers to equality for ...

Since mid-January our teams in Hong Kong have navigated various business continuation plans due to the COVID-19 outbreak, however with reported cases having dropped to relatively low numbers across the city, our staff have now fully returned to business as usual in our Central office. Carter Murray, Frazer Jones, Taylor Root and the wider SR Group are back in the office but ...

With the help of technology, we have seen the process of the job search dramatically change over the last decade. Technology has significantly reduced the time, knowledge and research needed for applying to a vacancy. In 2020, you can directly apply to a job easily by simply uploading your CV on social media or job portal websites. However, in my view, this is not always an ...

Following the recent developments with the COVID-19 outbreak both locally and globally, the Hong Kong government have implemented travel and quarantine restrictions to combat the rise in infections. Effective immediately, we will be splitting our staff so that at any given time half our team will be present in the office, and the other half working from home. This will conti...

Taylor Root is proud to be supporting International Women's Day 2020. International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Whilst we all know that gender parity within the workplace has improved over the past decades, we all also know that there is still a long way to go. We interviewed Lily Guan, Country Lead Counsel & VP ...