Modern Law welcomes Sort Group to our Editorial Board with a chat with Managing Director, Keith Ahmed.

Hi Keith, How did you enter the Conveyancing and Mortgage Advising sector?

My background all goes back to working for my Dad in the heavy manufacturing and shipbuilding industry as a management accountant. This role of accounting is my core skill set. Accounting truly taught me how to work in a corporate setting, and it remains a skill set I use every day in the roles I am in now and throughout my career.

I moved from working with my Dad to legal firm turnaround services. It was a fun role to have, and I got appointed to assist various law firms to help them avoid bankruptcy and return them to profitable trading.

From that role, I was placed in a residential conveyancing firm in the Northeast and haven’t left the industry since.

You have multiple roles within Sort Group and MyInfinity. Would you approach each one of these differently, and how does the skillset differ from each role?

Yes, I do have a few roles within the different sides of the business, but they connect. I wouldn’t say that the day-to-day responsibilities of the roles differ much. I deal with everything as it comes my way from each day to the next.

My core skills are Accounting, HR, Risk Management and Contentious Litigation and all my roles within Sort Group are built off the back of those, so from day to day it can look different. Still, mainly, it’s the situation that’s different and not my actions or expertise that is having to mould to the situation, if that makes sense.

What advice would you give someone considering a career in Conveyancing?

That’s a difficult one to answer as, over the last couple of years, the most honest advice I could give someone would be, don’t. The pressure and workload for the reward recruiting.  There has been a race to the bottom, and conveyancing has become a commodity rather than a valued legal service.  But that’s changing, and we are doing everything we can across the Group to make conveyancing a long-term, valued and respected career again.

The implementation of Let’s Recruit into Sort Group will hopefully build the industry of conveyancing back up to a career for life.

We are doing our best to reignite the fire in the industry by introducing Levelling up seminars and lobbying the government to make this a career people which people can see rewards and benefits.

There needs to be a serious reshuffle in the industry to create more opportunity and desire from potential newcomers.

What would you say sets Sort Group apart from competitors?

Our technology, employee-centric, and customer-centric focus is what truly sets the Group apart from our competitors.  We believe in offering a truly value-added, transparent service.

I also think we really diversify the staff here and have people from all walks of life with all different skills.

Company culture and the people who have created this business are the most unique and valuable assets that we have as a company. In fact, company culture is the most important thing for any company to foster to get the best work possible.

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