Buyside recruiting advice/What headhunters are legit???

I am a senior at a school with good finance recruiting stats (Ross, Stern, UCB, Georgetown) with an accepted FT offer at a middle market bank which is decent for what I want to do, but not great overall. It isn't really a target for on-cycle, and I'm not really interested in that process in the first place, but I want to passively look for other opportunities to either lateral or go to the buy-side over my analyst stint. Any advice for how to approach this? I know it works through recruiting firms, but I don't know how to get in contact with them besides the bullshit Pinpoint and Greville emails that flood my inbox. What headhunters are legit and how should I get in their system? Is it even worth doing this if not doing on cycle? Any advice appreciated.

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What if it was called Morbius ventures lol like the movie lol. Morbius ventures.

 

Short answer, I'm gonna give you some tough love. You're at a mm bank lil bro. You don't have to worry about the prestigous head hunters bc you're not gonna be their priority. Go to business school after your 2 year stint instead, and it better be a better school than Ross or Haas.

 
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Alexander Chapman comes to my mind. A solid placement agent for MM & boutique analysts. Their global presence (US, UK, Eastern Europe, & HK) should provide you with options

Dude AC literally has no jobs. The first question they ask you in every call is "are you interviewing anywhere?" so that they could send their own candidates to the firm you're interviewing. AC have no mandates and scam people into telling them where interviews are happening. 

F*ck you for lying.

 

They call me with jobs that I applied to. Almost everything they have called me for was already posted on LinkedIn with the "Easy Apply" button a few days prior.

 

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