Headhunter Etiquette
Do you respond to all headhunters outreaches? What if it’s an area outside of your search, would you still respond you’re not interested and thank them for reaching out?
For context, I’m from a non-traditional background (non-MBB consulting) looking for MM PE ops roles and have gotten few headhunter inbounds for ops roles that I’ve indicated interest but no fund interviews yet.
I’ve also had some headhunters reach out about other non PE-Ops buyside roles (e.g., VC platform, portco strat, IR, etc.) but I’m not sure if I should try interviewing for those as well.
I do realize most folks on this site are bankers going for deal team roles. Surprisingly, I’ve interviewed for a couple LMM deal team roles (outside of headhunters) but my markets seems to have slowed down massively with the new admin.
Lol no. These people will spam you with requests that don't match your preferences on role or location even after you have had extensive conversations with them and then ghost you immediately the second you do something nonstandard in your career because they're "too busy." I get what their incentives are but don't let their largely being pretty, polite girls fool you--your relationship with them is as transactional as it gets.
I’m worried how much of not getting Ops inbounds is due to the market slowdown, gatekeeping, and/or I’m just not the best fit - prob some combo of all three.
The "please lateral to a smaller firm in a lower role 2 months before your bonus so I can have a commission check please!" is a common one
Generally the HHers are going to do cold outreach for roles which are harder to shift (generally). That could either be bad roles or niche roles or roles outside their normal network. Point being that not all roles are advertised. If you want to be proactive about looking, you have to... Proactively contact HHers and tell them what you want.
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