Secure your place on 9 September for a fast-track route into the Phipps Cameron Graduate Academy — and your opportunity to become an expert recruiter in the world of Private Equity.
Graduate Executive Search Consultant | Private Equity
Build a career, not just a graduate job.
Phipps Cameron is looking for ambitious graduates with a strong appetite for success to join our growing global business and develop into the next generation of Executive Search Consultants.
This is a fast-track opportunity to enter the world of Private Equity, M&A, Strategy and Corporate Development, with comprehensive in-house training, hands-on development and direct access to some of the industry’s most successful consultants.
You’ll follow a proven development blueprint designed to take you from graduate to expert recruiter, sector specialist and future leader.
If you’re driven, commercially curious and prepared to work hard for exceptional rewards, we want to hear from you.
Why Phipps Cameron?
We aren’t a generalist recruitment business.
We are a specialist executive search firm partnering with an exceptional portfolio of Private Equity-backed businesses, major corporates and senior decision-makers across our markets.
You’ll work on searches where the people you identify and influence can directly shape businesses, investment strategies and major transactions.
Most importantly, you’ll learn from people who have already built successful careers in the industry.
Our top consultants are highly experienced, commercially successful search professionals, with our strongest performers generating £1m+ in annual revenue. They will play an active role in your development, sharing the knowledge, skills and commercial understanding that have made them successful.
Join a Global Business
About us:
We serve as the definitive executive search and consulting partner across high-impact business functions, specifically focusing on Corporate Development, the entire Office of the CFO, operational Transformation, and AI. Our business is built on deeply collaborative relationships with leading Private Equity funds. We understand the unique pressures of the PE landscape, and we leverage our specialist networks to deliver elite executive talent that directly supports your growth milestones and helps portfolio businesses scale efficiently.
Phipps Cameron is growing internationally, with a global client base and European locations.
Additional language skills are advantageous but not essential — particularly French, German or Scandinavian languages.
As part of the Graduate Academy, the successful cohort will likely have the opportunity to spend time in Hamburg, working alongside our European team and gaining first-hand exposure to international executive search.
The Phipps Cameron Graduate Academy
We’ve collaborated internally to create a structured, practical training programme designed to give ambitious graduates the strongest possible start in executive search.
You’ll have a clear blueprint covering:
- Executive search fundamentals
- Private Equity, M&A and Corporate Development
- Market mapping and research
- Candidate identification and engagement
- Business development and client management
- Executive-level communication
- Commercial negotiation
- Search strategy and delivery
- Building your personal market and network
- Winning and managing assignments
You’ll combine formal training with hands-on learning, coaching and exposure to live searches.
As you develop, you’ll progressively take ownership of your own market, clients and candidates.
Learn fast. Progress fast. Earn fast.
Build Your Own Career
Your starting salary is just the beginning.
Our progression structure is meritocratic, with clear targets for promotion and increased earning potential. Your progression isn’t determined by how long you’ve been here — it’s determined by what you achieve.
Perform → Progress → Earn → Lead
We’re looking for the people who want to become our:
Top Billers. Sector Experts. Future Leaders.
Who We’re Looking For
You don’t need recruitment experience. You need the mindset and appetite to succeed.
We’re looking for graduates who:
- Are ambitious and genuinely hungry to succeed.
- Have a strong appetite for achievement and financial success.
- Are commercially curious and interested in how businesses make money.
- Communicate confidently and build relationships naturally.
- Are resilient and comfortable being challenged.
- Take ownership and accountability for their results.
- Are competitive with themselves and constantly want to improve.
- Can demonstrate commitment, discipline and a strong work ethic.
- Want their earning potential to reflect their performance.
- Have the maturity and confidence to operate in a corporate executive environment.
You don’t need to know executive search or Private equity
We’ll teach you
What we can’t teach is drive.
✨ What You’ll Get
- Competitive starting salary + uncapped commission
- Full in-house Graduate Academy training
- Structured career development and promotion targets
- Hybrid working
- Unlimited annual leave
- Private healthcare
- International incentive trips
- Michelin-star lunches and exceptional company events
- Direct access to high-performing senior consultants
- International exposure and potential training in Hamburg
- The opportunity to build a specialist market and personal network
- A genuine pathway to a high-earning, long-term career
This Is Not an Easy Option. It’s a Great One -Executive search is demanding.
It requires commitment, dedication, resilience and hard work.
But if you’re willing to put in the work, it can become one of the most rewarding and financially lucrative careers you can build straight out of university.
You’ll develop commercial expertise, build relationships with senior executives and investors, understand how businesses operate and become an expert in a specialist market.
Your degree gets you through the door.
Your ambition determines where you go next.
🚨 Your Fast-Track Opportunity
We are holding an exclusive Graduate Assessment Day on Wednesday 9 September 2026 at our London HQ.
6 assessment places.
3 graduate positions available.
Offers extended within 48 hours of the assessment day.
PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND THE ASSESSMENT DAY ON 9 SEPTEMBER 2026.
This is a highly selective opportunity for graduates who are serious about building a career in executive search.
If you’re looking for a comfortable graduate role with predictable progression, this probably isn’t for you.
If you’re looking for world-class training, uncapped earning potential, rapid progression and the opportunity to build a genuinely successful career, apply now.
Your executive search career starts here.
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