Legit headhunters or not?
Are the Mercury partners, Bailey park, pinpoint type headhunters legit? Seem to send lots of hedge fund opportunities some of which seem interesting but not sure if they are real or not...
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Mercury is decent. Bailey park is just a wanna be and most likely a spam scam like pinpoint. They literally have 0 connections and really don't know what they talk about.
What about long ridge partners?
They are legit - got me into several large HF and MM, got me the position Im in today.
Stay away from Pinpont.
Those are called “practice interviews”
Stay away from Mercury and Long Ridge. They make up roles. Odyssey is suspect too.
Pinpoint will spam you with crappy banking gigs.
Why is Odyssey suspect? Had a solid experience with them
Odyssey is super legit
Haven't heard of the other 2, but Mercury and Long Ridge seems like a spam machine. A lot of roles they advertise are public on Google/Glassdoor. Those are also roles where the firm/hiring manager may not want to pay headhunter fees for. Most HFs also have HR reps on LinkedIn or some HR email address that you can try reaching out directly with a quick synopsis of your background and they would hook you up with the right hiring manager if there is an opening; they might also have more specialized roles internally that are not publicly advertised. The specialized roles are where headhunters can be valuable, but each firm would only contract with a small handful of headhunters, so it's unlikely a single headhunter would have true-ins at many different HFs.
For the really big HFs, like Citadel, Millenium, Bridgewater, AQR, Two Sigma, DE Shaw, etc. they have internal sourcers that you can try to find on LinkedIn.
Thanks for this - very helpful
Not entirely true. yes these large hedge funds have Business Development teams that will sometimes reach out to candidates, but these hedge funds rely on head hunters/recruiters to filter out ppl for them. Of the large multi managers only 1 or 2 reached out directly to me, while the majority of the opportunities and interviews I got were facilitiated by head hunters.
Any updates on Long Ridge?
What's the nature of the "scams" discussed in this thread? I'm curious
Don't know about others but Bailey Park is absolutely crap
Why are they crap?
I don't have direct experience with them but my friends who interacted with these guys basically said that they are useless with no connections. They reach out to you to build a database and nothing else. There were no follow-ups / postings other than a generic response "we are working on sourcing opps".
Just to save you all the effort. If you want to work at a MM HF, just reach out to their Internal BusDev team. That's exactly what these headhunters do
What about SM HFs? Would going through the bigger HHs be the only route? DSP, SearchOne types?
Honestly, I lack experience with SMs but I imagine networking is a bit harder there. Most of those guys have a stick up their you know what
DSP, SearchOne, and odyssey are ones I found helpful for single manager ops, but in honesty the more networking/connected you are the easier it is because those roles usually get passed via word of mouth
Bailey Park is legit; they’re a little scrappy but there’s nothing scammy about them
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