Private equity firms and their investors take a variety of approaches when it comes to advertising job openings on their Web sites.
On the one hand you have job-trumpeting firms such as Austin, Texas-based Vista Equity Partners. Its career page lets you search more than 4,000 open positions, including ones at the firm, its consulting group and its portfolio companies.
Among such firms, the easy-to-navigate search platform offered by Workday has become a popular choice for presenting job openings, our latest survey of career pages finds. Adherents include Ares Management, Bain Capital, and PSP Investments.
On the other hand, many large PE employers, including Advent International, General Atlantic, Leonard Green & Partners, Thoma Bravo and TPG, don’t list any job openings at all on their Web sites. Or at least our best efforts to find them didn’t turn up any. We were unable to reach executives at these firms to see if they had any plans to start advertising positions on their sites.
Private Equity Career News has advocated for more transparency when it comes to recruiting practices, and we want to cheer on firms that advertise open positions on their Web sites and on job boards. We feel it’s an important step for ensuring that a diversity of candidates finds out about job opportunities in the industry.
Below we highlight some of our favorite career sites hosted by PE firms and institutional investors. Paying members of PrivateEquityCareer.com can access the full list here, along with links to the most useful job boards.
- Apollo Global Management: Apollo’s career page gives you the option to search by business and keyword. The jobs can also be organized alphabetically by a variety of categories making it easy to find an opening relevant to your needs.
- Ares Management: Ares’s job search page utilizes Workday and currently shows 62 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by job category, location, job type, and whether full or part time.
- Bain Capital: Bain’s job search page uses Workday and currently shows 20 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by, location, job profile, job type, whether full or part time, and job category.
- Blackstone Group: Blackstone’s job search function uses Workday and currently shows 229 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by business unit, location, job type, and whether full or part time.
- Carlyle Group: Carlyle’s career page gives you a search function to input a title, job category or keyword and indicate a location to search for. Currently there are 40 open positions.
- Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division: Goldman Sachs’s career page allows you to search by multiple keywords and gives you the option to limit options by division, job level, and location. The list of open opportunities can also be organized by multiple methods.
- Hamilton Lane: Hamilton Lane uses Workday and currently shows 28 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by location, job type, and whether full or part time.
- HarbourVest Partners: HarbourVest uses Workday and currently shows 63 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by job category, location, job type, and whether full or part time.
- LGT Capital Partners: LGT’s career page gives you the option to filter jobs by location and by a variety of job categories; it also has a search function. Currently the board shows 67 open positions.
- LLR Partners: LLR’s career page allows you to search its open positions by city and state. Currently there are six open positions, all located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- NexGen: NexGen’s career page is clean and simple, and provides a list of its open positions organized by category. There are currently nine positions available, including three internship programs.
- PineBridge Investments: PineBridge uses Workday and currently shows 12 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by location, job type, and whether full or part time.
- PSP Investments: PSP uses Workday and currently shows 18 open positions. Along with a search function, you can narrow down results by job category, location, job type, and whether full or part time.
- Riverside Co: Riverside’s career page contains a list of all openings, currently showing seven open positions including two internships. Each position displays title and location with a link to learn more and apply.
- Vista Equity Partners: Vista Equity Partners’s career page currently shows 4120 open positions at the firm as well as its portfolio companies. You can search by keyword as well as limit results by business, job function, or locations.
—Ryan Hibbison; edited by David Toll