From what it seems, they have a pipeline of lateral banking openings but they ghost on people. They blast my phone a million times only to read off a script. I’m so sick tired of following up to only have them forget who they even spoke to. Has anyone been placed at this shop that you know of? Thanks in advance guys!
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I had a similar experience with them. Not cool.
When I was lateraling I must've got lucky, had a really good headhunter there.
Glad it worked out. Just curious to know what region. I had a problem for their east coast HQ. Either way they are all a pest.
Believe he was in his first year. He was hungry. Texted me opportunities and updates on the process with each firm daily.
Most of the other people I've spoken to there were complete clowns.
They are worse than pinpoint. Call me once a month about roles and ghost me every time. Wtf
That’s exactly what I thought. I mean talk about incompetent. They aren't loyal to anyone because they need to fill positions but for God sakes they sure are useless and a waste of time.
Nobody, nothing, can ever be worse than Pinpoint.
Pinpoint sends me the same exact email from 5 different recruiters for roles that have nothing to do with anything.
Pinpoint literally is the nuclear bomb of preying on desperation by blasting jobs that don’t exist.
Do NOT bother using recruiters. Especially for IB. My firm and most banks (even trashy shops) will only take a recruiter candidate as a last resort. If you're the best candidate and deserve the job, but #2 isn't far behind, they'll go with #2 (because they dont want to pay the free for using the recruiter).
How would you go about finding lateral opps then? I feel like many banks won’t even post them choosing to go through HHs instead
Selby Jenning and Phaidon International are trash. Absolute trash. Ghosted me and a bunch of my buddies for banking postings. We eventually landed by directly networking with the Analyst/Associates at the bank.
If they float your resume to banks and don't get positive responses, they do just ghost you. Not sure why they think that is a good business model.
Because it doesn't take any particular level of strategic thinking to be a recruiter?
DM me
why did I just get MS on me?
Selby Jennings is a recruiting firm? Huh, I thought they just collect resumes and do nothing with them.
I always see them on job forums, glad to see people speaking up on how bad they really are.
The word had to get out. Would be nice for a top MD to expose them and I’m not quite sure why banks even retain these guys. They literally add no value to a conversation at all..
They are garbage. From I've been told/ascertained, they post BS jobs and use it collect comp info. No idea what they do it. Either incredibly unorganized or just not genuine with regards to real opportunities or intentions. Would advise to just ignore them altogether as God knows what they will do with your resume.
According to LinkedIn they are a TOP TIER INVESTMENT BANK for quants
When a bank uses all caps that’s when you know...
LOL!
.... that it's Tobin & co
I wish I saw this thread before I submitted my info for some Charlotte jobs... Oh well...
Avoid pinpoint partners and selby jennings.
They are thrash shops. For me I dealt with Pinpoint (london) and Selby Jennings (singapore) and didnt have good experiences with both. Pushy and terrible salespeople
I get a call and email from Bryan Gearghty at Selby Jennings once a month. I block his calls. One time he made an off-color racist remark about my name. Total jerk. I tell everyone I speak to in the HH industry about it. Also they post fake jobs they aren't really hiring for to loop you in and do the good old bait n switch. I would avoid them at all costs. They also don't store your data properly and hand it out freely from what I hear.
Someone from Selby Jennings once told me that MF/UMM PE firms actually prefer people from boutique shops vs BB, and that I shouldn't try to work at a BB, bc it looks better that you had more responsibility at a smaller firm and are "scrappier". Total BS it was obvious she had no idea what she was talking about. She then tried to convince me that some lesser roles were better bc the COL for a certain city was less so "it's basically the same".
Mind you, the reason this convo was started was bc they emailed me saying they worked with big name firms like XYZ. When I asked about XYZ firms she said "no we work with firms LIKE those" then proceeded to tell me about opportunities at small firms I've never heard of.
They have no idea what they're talking about, limited access to any real firms, and aren't reliable with regards to follow up.
Avoid if possible.
Update: they literally sent an email this morning asking to fill out a survey about comp, location etc. and said that if you complete the survey you'll be entered in a raffle to win free airpods lmfao
Complete fly by night shop. They like to sprinkle in weird personal advice that’s unhelpful.
Because it is despicable to treat candidates like this, I propose that we should all start ghosting them.
They called you because they are looking for whatever profile ? great, tell them you are super interested, that you have all the skills, give them an appointment and don’t show up. these a**ho**s should know how it feels.
They used to be decent and now seem to have more of a Pinpoint and Water Street Search strategy of blasting resumes out to see what sticks. I've heard GQR is pretty decent from various friends.
I had a good experience with GQR too, didn’t take the position, but feel like I have a rapport with that guy now.
I got my PE job thanks to them haha had a solid recruiter who was focused on the region I was looking at (southeast)
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With all the above being said, are they any good headhunters to use? Feel like firms are generally less receptive to candidates coming from headhunters rather than referral.
GQR is good for sellside roles, not sure they do PE recruiting though
Do you have personal experience with them? I’m looking for strong MM firms
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