For those of you in LMM/MM PE, how did you get recruited at the firm you're currently at?
Currently having good luck filling our hiring funnel out with proactive outreach but not getting much inbound. This is kind of expected for a firm our size but the former sucks since it's me or my business partner reaching out. Swallows up a ton of time and probably won't scale cleanly.
I've talked to a few recruiters and I'm not really sure they do enough to screen candidates to justify the spend VS paying a platform like LinkedIn to bring in more leads. The other complication with using recruiters is that our firm is a little odd in our approach/strategy and we aren't really after the usual suspects when it comes to junior PE hires as I want more operating experience than traditional IB pathway.
Any other ideas? **Would love to hear about how you ended up at your current LMM or MM firm and why you're working for them. **For example, maybe you like working at a smaller firm because you get to work with portfolio companies directly/influence outcomes more, greater exposure to seniors, etc...
