Consulting placement from private equity rotations into private equity firms

Does this ever happen outside of headhunters? For example, I am thinking that if you are on Bain PEG rotation for two years, and you tell the partner under which you work "Hey, I want to move to PE, I've given you two good years of service, can you ask one of our clients if I can interview?"

I know this works for non-PE industries but because of the relatively structured PE process I'm curious if this holds true in PE consulting as well.

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