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Trainnee Recruitment Consultant - Financial Services
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Trainnee Recruitment Consultant - Financial Services
The world's best quantitative trading firms don't hire through job boards.
They hire exceptional people, and they rely on specialist search partners to find them. This opportunity puts you at the centre of one of the most competitive talent markets in the world, identifying elite Software Engineers and Quantitative Trading professionals from companies such as Meta, Google and leading financial institutions, before introducing them to the world's top US hedge funds. This is a strategic search role where success comes from research, intelligence and building relationships, not high-volume recruiting.
The Market
Quant Trading & Software Engineering into US buy-side hedge funds.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
- 70% of candidates sourced from world-class technology companies.
- 30% from competing hedge funds and financial institutions.
- Typical deal cycle of 6 weeks to 6 months.
- Average placement fee:
- 2025: $240,000
- 2026: $300,000
- Largest fee in 2026: $1,000,000
Why This Opportunity?
- No business development - a pure 180/270 search role.
- Work with candidates earning compensation packages into eight figures.
- Up to 70% commission.
- Learn directly from seven-figure billers.
- Boutique environment with high standards, no politics and no corporate red tape.
- Build genuine market expertise in one of the highest-value recruitment markets in the world.
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Who You Are
- Graduate or early in your career.
- Competitive, ambitious and commercially minded.
- Naturally curious with exceptional attention to detail.
- Motivated by becoming an expert rather than simply filling jobs.
- Looking for a career where performance is rewarded without limits.
If you want to build a career working with exceptional talent, advising the world's leading hedge funds and operating in a market where individual placements regularly generate six and seven-figure fees, we'd love to hear from you.
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