Headhunter (PE Recruiting)
A third-party recruiter (e.g. CPI, Amity, Henkel, SG Partners in the US; Sheffield Haworth, Compass in Europe) who manages the on-cycle and off-cycle private equity hiring process on behalf of funds, screening and forwarding candidates from investment banking analyst programmes.
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