Oncycle / HH Outreach 2028

Currently a senior getting outreach from headhunters for on-cycle and wanted to create a megathread for which headhunters have reached out so far.

Looking to hear if anyone's got the big names yet (HSP, CPI, Amity, Ratio, DSP, Search1)

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