MBA VP Recruiting - Prior PE Experience

Pretty straightforward question, but I'm getting my MBA from an MM fund. Burned out from PE (mostly due to my particular fund/team), so the play would be to find an internship at a high-growth startup to see if I like tech. If not, I would recruit for PE again, but focus on growth.

I know this is relatively common, but from browsing the forum, it seems super unstructured, with little on-campus recruiting (and if there is, it's targeted at diversity). Obviously having prior experience is helpful, but curious from folks exactly how difficult the search is for a VP role out of MBA? If I was still working, I'd just hit up all my HH contacts, but I'm wondering if the process is different.

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