Dartmouth Partners | How do they get given mandates?
After engaging with Dartmouth Partners over the last few months, I got wondering, why does anyone give them a single mandate when they are so unfathomably bad at their job. They are beyond atrocious at managing both candidates and client expectations.
I've spoken to friends across the board that used them for transferring into PE another role in IB and jobs beyond this and it got me thinking. If they are so god awful at recruiting why would any firm bother to use them when there's other recruiters out there / why do candidates who get placed by them use them again after having such a god awful experience.
No idea why clients use them (maybe they still get results idk) but people are hardly going to say no to a role just because DP is on the mandate...
Ignore title, I am an Asso1 now, but I have definitely not applied for some roles because DP was on the mandate.
They have a monopoly in early careers third-party recruiting (SA and grad, in Ldn anyway) with some really well-known shops (PWP/Ares etc) so firms just assume they’re good at what they do. They are super super aggressive in cold-outreach for mandates so my guess is that most of the time they are the first-mover and firms just go with it because they cba researching for other recruiters.
Terrible and unprofessional recruiters. Hope they get eyed out soon.
Yeah in the process with them for PWP right now and it sucks. Bros rescheduled my interview twice now i feel like im getting edged
I kid you not. Not that long ago was talking to a recruiter from Dartmouth who tried convincing me that the company is looking for candidates who are in it for the “right” reasons when I pushed her on what the comp for a position would be before going through their 1000 rounds of interviews. 🤯
They are just hugely hugely unprofessional, lie through their teeth saying they haven't heard back from the client and then a week later will say the role has been filled, haha
So in essence let other candidates know that they have another round and just leave you in the dark / leave you to figure out you haven't got through, until the role has actually been filled
Does anyone have their IB and IR comp reports to share?
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