Connections is a Sales job - Client Associate Third Bridge Employee Review

This is essentially a sales and recruiting job that takes the cons of both job and increases them on horrendous level. You will be working on projects for clients but they are not what you may expect. Basically how a "project" works is that your receive an email from a client with minimal background, with them basically saying that they want to speak a person who specializes in a specific area, whether they are an expert(really just someone who has been working in an industry for 5-10 years) who works at a customer, competitor, or supplier of a company that the clienty is looking to invest/buy/sell you are expected to deliver that expert to the client immediately. All you do is call and interview 10-20 experts and ask them 3-5 simple questions to see if you think they would be a good fit for the client. Then you email the client all of the supposed "good fits" and pray that they are selected. "Why would they not be selected?" you ask? the reason being is that you are competing with anywhere from 4-7 other expert networks at once that your client is also working with. If one of the other expert networks has there candidate delivered before you or chosen over you(which this all happens within 30 minutes or being sent the project) you maybe never hear back from your client because they dont actually care about your relationship, since they can get the exact same "expert network service" from any other network. Point being do not apply to a connections role, the only job that is worth it to apply to at this company is Forum and even then it could be years until you are actually doing legit equity research where you get to leave with hard skills to take to a real employer. This company at the end of the day is not worth it. You should just continue to look for other jobs and be unemployed a bit longer. Trust me the timelines you are on for this company are similar to sales and trading job without any actual hard skills, when you are working you are always working, and email comes and you may be on the 30 minute lunch break they give you and you are expected to go immediately back to you desk - no other industry is like this. There are almost no other transferable skills other than spamming people on linkedin and cold calling people all day.