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I have an interview scheduled with them next week.  I figured that initially this would be a sales job, but could possibly progress to something more IB oriented??? Did you get the sense that this is even possible?  Also, did they mention anything about salary?

Houlihan SMith is using telemarketing techniques and strong arm tactics to get information about company's presidents and such.  Do not give any personal or business info to these people

I got a call on my cell phone from this company...  I looked it up and found out it was Holiahan and smith...  They are like IPA out in Buffalo Grove...  Ripe off artists....

AP~~~You just confirmed all of what we were saying~~RUDE!!  And who really cares about spell check!!  This is a site about phone numbers!! Not the national spelling bee!! And I'm thinking you should maybe use spell check before you try to down someone~~~realationship???  What are those are they the same as relationships???

Yeah, i saw that too! Trying to down someone for misspelling words, then he does the exact same thing! What an idiot! He's probably bankrupt, using a computer out of a public library, crying because he caught his wife sleeping with a big black guy like me! Loser

I received a call from a Michael Stevens of Houilhan & Smith what a rude person...
When someone says can I take a message, Why must you argue with them?
That is not the way to go about getting business.
Have you not learned that being polite will get you a lot farther than being rude?
Now after reading some comments about this #. All I can say is "LET THE GAMES BEGIN" your phone call will never get farther than me.
WE DON'T WANT YOUR BUSINESS.....

Got a call today from Kevin Miller at Houlihan Smith. He asked for the boss, and I said he was away until tomorrow. I did ask what this was about and was told it was "a private business matter". We get all kind of calls soliciting one thing or another, so I am always suspicious. I sensed this guy was bogus, and thanks to Google, now know he is. This actually was the third time this guy has called. Next time I think I know what I'll tell him........

This guy was real jerk- asked for the owner of the business by first name and claimed he needed to discuss a confidental business matter.  

I pretended to take down his info and then hung-up.  I hope he read this.

I called the number back and asked to be taken off the list of calls- does anyone know if this is successful?

I got a call from them too, and I'm not far from their office.  I know all about this company, bad news.

you outfoxed him you little sneak!

Houlihan Smith is nothing like IPA.  The sad part is is that many of your bosses "presidents/owners" are looking for alternative lending sources, like I was, since it has become very tough to secure a loan from a bank.  Many of the failing businesses in the US are do to being under funded, they dont sell anything in a sense.  I have gotten many calls from Houlihan Smith untill I finally told the Judy to put them through.  I was trying to secure 5 mil for expansion purposes, I finally got the money and since have succesfully created 38 new full time positions at my company, not to mention I told my uncle about their services and he was able to sell his company in a year and a half.  And all the employees kept their jobs.  

Can they be irritating absolutley, do they cold call, sure, are they a scam, absolutley not, are they effective, for me and my uncle yes, for others who knows.  

Judy told me about this site and its a shame to see the rep these guys got.  Put them through they might just be able to save your job.

A jerk named Kevin Miller called five times today pretending to be long time friends with our CEO.  When call was routed to CEO assistant, he was told CEO was in a meeting, Kevin Miller said this is an urgent personal matter and go in an interrupt the meeting and pull him out.  Assistant didn't do that.  Miller was very rude and aggresive.  Turns out their whole company is a scam!  Never do business with Houlihan Smith. Never.

Here's some free advice from an "admin"...we KNOW who our bosses want to speak to.  And you're not one of them.  I work directly for a CEO and know exactly which companies are worthy of his time.  You clearly are not, so take the friggin' hint.  And here's another tip - don't ya happen to think a CEO may be just a TAD busier than a lowly sales guy??  Um, yeah, try running a company for a bit and see how much time you have to waste on calls like this.

Those CEO people are down right scary.

Not at all.

oh my word!
could this guy have been any nastier !?
m-A-nopause maybe?
it's so wonderful the word had gotten out about sites like this to research callers.
thanks for the help!!!!!!

I had the displeasure of speaking with one of the "senior associates" (or a similar title) at Houlihan about job prospects. She was strangely quite rude to me... Thank god I did some due diligence on this worthless company. If they called my business, I would have them fly out to see me and tell them I am not interested to their faces.  

Gecko is a wannabe. He has posted the same trash on 2 or 3 other websites that I have seen so far. How is it that these [***] can afford to be so rude to EVERYONE? You would think that a company of scammers would know to be nice...

Houlihan clearly is a scam.. but you can't put them in the same class as Goldman or JP Morgan. Not all investment banks are run like angry telemarketing offices

Hi all,

I was an employee of this place for about 6 days back in the summer of '07. I found the job on monster.com that described it as an investment bank. I interviewed with Jason Robbins, who called me back a couple days later and told me I got the job. I trained with Dean Knudsen(sp?), Jason Robbins, and Chris Gogolewski (sp?). At first I thought it was interesting because I was way up on like the 16th floor of a nice downtown Chicago office. Once I got down to the business room, I definitely lost all interest. I was given a folder with about 300 names of businesses and their CEO's and told to call them up and use my "script". I got 2 leads the first day real early so I was excited and thought, hey maybe this isn't so bad. But after a slow afternoon and Dean constantly harping on us to call more numbers I got really frustrated. I used to be an admin for a small company where I would get my a** kicked (not literally of course) if I ever let anyone the CEO didn't personally know through to her. The way the company makes you seem like the CEO's best friend and all assertive just wasn't for me. My 3rd day of being on the phones, I didn't come back from lunch, I just took the Metra home. I can't vouch for their business side of doing things, like whether or not they actually help companies out or not, I just know it really sucked working there and I had to use a "normal" last name because mine was too hard to pronounce. I do remember Jason Robbins, Michael Androtti and Hitesh Patel as being nice at least to new coworkers. Hitesh was my group's leader. I worked next to some goober who called himself "Charles Rogers"Oh, one more weird thing, they never had enough chairs, so a lot of people had to stand while they called people all day. That kind of sucked. Every time I got an admin who knew what I was doing, I gave up, I didn't care. Someone was like "is this a telemarketer" and I'm like yeah I guess. And this one cool guy from down south was like "how much do you hate your job" and I said "you have no idea." Anyway, thanks for letting me rant. At least I have a job now that I actually like!