Recruitment - (Dodgy) European Headhunting Firms
Hi Monkeys -- I've recently come across a number of European headhunting firms which claim to represent a wide range of well known PE firms (particularly in the mid/lower mid market) but seem rather dodgy. Judging from their senior employees' LinkedIn profiles, they all seem to have ties to https://albertcliff.com/ which seems credible. Aside from Albert Cliff affiliation, some common features include: outreach over LinkedIn, wide range of supposed mandates (albeit on a non-exclusive basis), similar/identical websites (both layout and content), and oddly enough a combination of two anglo-saxon family names as firm names (fits 3/4 firms).
My best guess is that they were set up by the Albert Cliff founders (as their LinkedIn profiles suggest) to aggregate CVs and send across pro actively to PE firms without diluting the Albert Cliff brand.
I'd be curious if anyone has experience working with them and what the downside is to sending them your CV if it turns out that they don't have any real mandates.
List of firms:
all of them are sketchy
I've had interviews through both Carter Wahlberg and Albert Cliff with real PE funds, mostly MM continental Europe. They're not very good in comms and don't really respect that you don't want to be called out of the blue unless you very explicitly tell them
Lmao, Anglo Saxon company names and yet the co-founders are a pair of Russian guys...
I will not send my CV to them. Albert Cliff's latest offspring is Flynn & Chase - check UK Company House. Heard from a former colleague that they contacted his new work, but they were not recruiting nor looking to, yet this "recruiting firm" went and advertised (while not adding the real non-recruiting firm's name) and collected CVs and sent over. Weird and irritating. It's like a telemarketing operation, they try to collect as many CVs as possible, then they spam employers. A few friends were contacted and they were not happy because they just spammed their CVs all over town. I don't think they ever had a mandate.
throw Greenwich Partners on the list as well
James Heath not good?
Buffet69throw Greenwich Partners on the list as wellJames Heath not good?I dealt with him a couple of times and honestly I don't understand how this guy makes a living out of headhunting. Super disorganised, very poor communication and most of the time throw stuffs at you with either zero context or absolutely not relevant.
he does the same model as everybody else on this list... collects and blasts your resume with no real jobs behind their postings
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