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Executive Recruitment and
Search in Financial Services
by Anne Lawrence, Economist
Intelligence Unit 2000
 One of 54 Executive
Recruitment firms included in
the Americas
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Address
780 Third Avenue, Suite 4203
New York
NY 10017
US
T:
(1.212)
755-1090
F:
(1.212)
755-1130 |
E-mail
linda@bialecki.com
Website
www.bialecki.com |
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Key contact
Linda Bialecki
Consultants
2
Employees (this office)
5
Employees (other locations)
n/a
Other offices in region
n/a
Work completed outside local area (%)
0
Locations
n/a |
Product strengths
Investment banking, capital markets,
sales,
trading and research
Company strength
Solving "impossible" and mission-
critical searches
Areas of speciality
Corporate finance,
Mergers and acquisitions
Equity analysis
Fixed income trading
and sales
Structured products
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Comments
There
are
some
firms
that
pride
themselves
on
handling
any
sort
of
recruitment
assignment,
from
an
operations
clerk
to
a
chief
executive.
Needless
to
say,
these
are
the
types
of
firms
that
never
handle
a
search
assignment
for
a chief
executive but
have
plenty
of
requests
for
operations
clerks.
Other types
of
firms
operate only
in
the
upper
echelons
of
search.
Bialecki
is
this
sort
of
firm.
Founded
in
1986,
the
firm
is
a
high-quality
search
boutique,
with
a
strong
reputation
in
the
New
York
markets.
A
lot
of
the
credit
is
owed
to
the
founder
of
the
firm,
Linda
Bialecki,
who
oversees
a
small
cadre
of
consultants.
Ms
Bialecki,
who
has
degrees
from
Berkeley
and
Stanford
universities,
had
experience
in
headhunting
before setting
up
her
own
firm.
Bialecki
has
lists
of
searches
that
it
will
and
will
not
do.
The
list
of
"do's'
specifies
the
assignments
the
firm
undertakes,
which
include
sector
heads
in
investment
banking,
heads
of
new
product
development
groups,
senior
research
analysts
and
senior traders
and
sales
people.
Business
in
1999
rose
strongly,
growing
in
the
areas
of
mergers
and
acquisitions,
corporate
finance
and
fixed
income.
However,
there
was
some
contraction
in emerging
markets
and
risk
arbitrage.
The
firm
is
caught
in
the
"war
for
talent",
a dwindling
pool
of
high-quality
talent
in
the
financial
markets
in
the
US,
and
is increasingly
seeking
to
import
talent
to
cope
with
the
increasing
demands
of
clients.
Bialecki
thinks
the
investment
banking
world
is
undergoing
a
Darwinian
struggle, with
the
strong
getting
stronger
and
the
weak
becoming
irrelevant.
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