Kossoris Search

Laughed out loud when I saw this 1-​star rating and only wish I’d of seen it before applying to work here. I had the greatest displeasure of speaking with Madam Kossoris herself as she took time out of her day to tear apart my resume, tear apart my answers to her questions, and tacitly rescind the offer I’d been given by her associate to put my time and energy into her (wildly unprofessional) company. What difficulty there was in deleting my resume and keeping it moving I’ll never know, but I’m certain I’m the most fortunate to not be an employee of this loon.

WORST RECRUITER IN THE BUSINESS. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Like other reviewers, if I could give her 0 stars, I would. I literally joined Unilocal for the sole purpose of warning people about how horrible this recruiter is. I feel so badly for the innocent young attorneys who make the horrific mistake of responding to her spam job emails. I was one of those people, and my experience truly could not have been worse. I first set up an appointment with Amy that she showed up to 45 minutes late after being completely unreachable. She hounded me to get my resume ready for her to review before the meeting and then made it clear she had no idea who I was at the meeting and again asked me to send her my resume. She was completely disheveled and just plain rude. She then randomly hugged me at the end of our 5 minute meeting (super uncomfortable) after I told her that the meeting experience made me decide to work with someone else.
HERE’S WHERE IT GETS EVEN WORSE. The next day, I get an email from a large firm (my first choice) thanking me for my submission. SHE SUBMITTED MY EMAIL WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. When I called to confront her about it, she sent me incredibly nasty emails lying about how I’d given her permission. Then she set up my interview (which I went to because I wasn’t going to let my experience with her get in the way of my job), and I eventually got the job. I warned the recruiter at the firm about what happened, but unless Amy admitted to it, they wouldn’t do anything about it. I contacted Amy about 10 times. When I finally got a hold of her and very calmly explained the situation, she started screaming at me and hung up. Even though I was so excited about the job, the experience with her took so much of the joy away.
FYI, the sole positive review on here is obviously fake. Also, her responses to the reviews trying to make it seem like people are reviewing her negatively b/​c they couldn’t get a job are complete bogus. I got the job despite her unbelievable lying.
Please PLEASE avoid this woman at all costs. She is truly a terrible person who is willing to lie and cheat to get ahead without any regard for who she crushes in the meantime.

From a law firm perspective, this recruiter is to be avoided at all costs. She is a horror show. There are many fabulous headhunters in the profession, so it is quite amazing that she can get away with conducting her business so unprofessionally.

In Response to the Owners comment:
My issue was related to you not showing up to an appointment set by you. You had a copy of my resume for the specific part time position I applied for, you called me for an interview, if I was not qualified why interview me?. I made arrangements to leave my full time job early to make my commitment on time, but you were gone for the day, without even cancelling our appointment. If you are going to apologize, then apologize for not showing up to an appointment you set. But instead you are justifying your disregard for my time with not being able to find a match for me… you don’t know what I am a match for because you did not show up to our appointment to interview me!!!

My experience with Amy and her team has been nothing but exemplary over the past few months. I contacted Amy via e-​mail and requested a meeting. During out first meeting, Amy was very courteous, professional, and friendly. We discussed my past work experience, my goals, and what type of firm I’m looking for.
A day after our meeting, Amy sent me a follow-​up email with an exhaustive list of firms specializing in the practice area which I am looking to enter. After my review, Amy and her team quickly got to work. They are always quick to respond to e-​mails I send, which is something I can’t say other recruiting firms are good at. Additionally, they are always interested in hearing my feedback and working with me to make myself more marketable.
Unlike bigger operations which simply make you fill-​out a bunch of paperwork and ask you to look through their search engine for positions, Amy is proactive, and looks for positions that are not advertised, through here professional network, which she has built throughout the years. Through her network, Amy was able to land me an interview at a firm that I really liked. Her team were constantly in contact with me to make sure I was kept up to speed on what was going on.
For me, effective communication is a very important skill I look for in recruiters, and Amy and her team are very effective communicators who always make sure to keep you in the loop of what is going on. I enjoy working with her, and would recommend her firm.

I agree with the other 1-​star reviews. Stay away from this agency! The owner is very rude and abrasive, does not respect candidates or even her own employee, and has a very bad reputation with the major law firms in LA. She posts contract jobs on craigslist and treats lawyers like cattle. I think she either failed out of law school or graduated with an incredibly low ranking so she has some sort of complex and jealously of other lawyers.

DO NOT USE THIS PERSON AS A RECRUITER. I wish there was a way to rate her 0 stars.
Amy Kossoris is the worst person I have ever dealt with on a professional level. She is unresponsive to e-​mail and phone calls. Amy doesn’t ever return calls, and when she does get around to replying to your e-​mail, she only responds with 2:00 am one-​line messages that don’t answer the questions you’ve asked… even after you’ve clarified what you need to know several times. She is completely unprofessional — she kept asking for materials that I had sent her THREE times previously, and in the same e-​mail chain.
Save yourself the trouble and go with a legal recruiter who cares about your job search and not only herself.

Amy is extremely unreliable, unprofessional, and most importantly, ineffective. She is suspicious and accused me of applying to jobs she had put me in for. She was hard to contact and unresponsive to emails but she would contact me suddenly with no notice. She has a bad temper, sharp tongue, and talks before she thinks. Because you don’t have a job, she takes advantage of that and expects you to put up with her rude comments. She has constant turn over with her staff, or at least that is what she blames for losing your paper work, emails, etc. She probably loses staff because she treats them badly too. The bottom line is if she is behaving this way with her clients and employees, I guarantee you that she is behaving that way with law firms. She is not how you want to represented, especially in a field where professionalism, reliability, and reputation matter.

Completely unprofessional. Her staff hounds you with emails and calls when they need something from you, but it takes them days to respond, if they ever respond, when you ask them for something. Amy is abrasive, rude and disheveled. Her staff called and emailed me several times a day for 2 days about a job. They told me they had set up an interview, but it took 3 days and 2 emails from me to actually confirm the time and place. I knew the job wasn’t the right fit and wasn’t expecting an offer, but Amy never sent any type of communication to let me know the job had been filled or that they had passed on me-​nothing. I don’t know what types of companies use Amy’s so-​called services, but I definitely lost respect for the HR dept. of the firm where I interviewed after meeting Amy. Thankfully, I didn’t end up needing Amy’s «services» and found a great job on my own. I encourage job seekers to use a different recruiter. There are a lot of true recruitment professionals out there.

Unprofessional. Discourteous. Those are the words that come to my mind. She does not know how to treat law students without jobs. She knows there are a lot of us out there in this market so she treats us like trash. Please use another recruiter.

DO NOT use this search firm!!! STAY AWAY!
To be honest, it is much more likely that you will do yourself more harm than good by using Amy Kossoris. I know first-​hand that this woman treats everyone (seriously, everyone) TERRIBLY and she really only has herself in mind. She screams at her untrained assistants (no wonder they never last) and she has no regards for her clients because she is ALWAYS late. She’ll cancel on you last minute and if she does actually keep the appointment, it is a guarantee that she’ll show up in work-​out clothes. I mean, she doesn’t even come into work until 5pm…
So you don’t care about professional attire or punctuality. Well, Amy will also take your resume and send it out to firms without your knowledge. She will do anything for a profit. Beyond all of this, Amy is ridiculously cruel to everyone around her. I would never enable this psychotic woman by giving her my time and money!!!
I also know that she commands her assistants to write fake reviews on different websites so I would be very wary of the 5– star reviews. Its interesting how they all sound to be authored by a similar person. Anyway, if you have any self-​dignity whatsoever, STAY AWAY from this woman. She is sick and will screw you over!

I will NEVER deal with Amy Kossoris again. She is the most unprofessional recruiter I’ve ever met. First of all, she wanted to do an initial face-​to-​face interview with me to go over my job goals, etc. She asks me to come at 1:00 p.m. I get there at 12:45 p.m. She doesn’t see me until 1:35 p.m. I mean, she wasn’t even THERE at 1:30 — she walked IN at that time. Then, when I go to her office, she’s on the computer, typing the whole time, asking me to wait for her. It was very unprofessional.
Later that evening, she frantically calls me, saying that she has a job interview for me the next morning at 9:00 a.m. I was kinda surprised, but she said I would be «perfect» for the job, and that they are willing to pay really well (be warned: Amy Kossoris ALWAYS inflates salaries). It was really inconvenient, but I took the morning off and went to the interview. The woman at the firm interviewing me looked at my resume and point blank asked, «Why did she send you to me?» Turned out that the position required skills and background in an area I had never worked in. The job was a complete mismatch, for both the firm and I. We both looked at each other like, this was a big waste of time. Of course, afterwards Amy calls me, frantically asking how it went. I tried to tell her that she sent me on an interview I wasn’t even qualified for, and she just quickly cut me off and told me that she sent my resume to «10 other firms.»
I was shocked. It is extremely unprofessional for a recruiter to send a resume to a firm without informing the candidate first. What if I didn’t want my resume to go to a certain firm, or I had a conflict of interest?
Amy Kossoris is only about getting her commission. She could care less about you or your job search. I dropped her like a hot potato.