Two Different Answers for Interview

I recently sent out emails to several different MM IBDs. At one firm I sent an email to an associate as well as a firm partner/founder. The founder emailed me back asking me when I would be in NYC next to talk with him. The associate emailed me back saying they were not hiring SA or FT positions at the moment. I called the firm and talked to the partners personal assistant who set me up with a meeting with the partner. My question is, did the associate have wrong information? or did the partner just like my resume and decide he wanted to talk with me? Has anyone else had this happen?

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Who cares? partner>associate...forget you contacted the associate

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Associate probably basing his e-mail on the firm's normal hiring timeline (they might not be hiring right now) or he gets a bunch of these and was blowing you off.

Doesn't really matter, because if the partner wants to talk to you then that is what is going to happen. Might have been something on your resume that piqued his interest - happens a lot. A friend of mine got an interview (and subsequently a job) because the guy saw he was from the same hometown outside of Buffalo.

 

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