Use Headhunter to Switch Groups as Second Year? Forum

[Anonymous User]

I'm a second year in a specialty group that falls under the corporate umbrella. If I were interested in switching to general corporate, but it's not an option at my current firm, would using a headhunter be advisable? Or is second year too junior?

[h2go]

I don't think a head hunter is necessary. Without headhunter, you can also often negotiate some sort of signing bonus because they don't need to pay a headhunter.

[Anonymous User]

I am a second year using a headhunter to jump firms who immediately lined up a bunch of other biglaw interviews for me, some of which I had no idea were open. We'll see where it ends up in a month or two, but right now it looks like it worked out and greatly decreased my stress level.

That said, I'm not able to run the counter scenario to see whether I would have done better just doing sending resumes myself to the firms. And I got lucky and got a good recruiter - I've heard disaster stories of people who use bad ones and end up with their resume blasted to every firm in town without their permission, etc.

[tyroneslothrop1]

I'm a first year associate who so far has had a good experience with a recruiter. Haven't really had to do anything. She emails before she submits to any firm. I wouldn't have known about any of these openings.