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headhunting

headhunting

1 4.0
Searching for and recruiting very skilled people for important jobs like managers or executives
  • noun
  • /ˈhɛdˌhʌntɪŋ/
translation icon : búsqueda de directivos
  • Many companies hire a headhunting firm to find top executives for their leadership positions.
  • headhunting firm
  • headhunting business

Examples

  • And then I got headhunted to move to Conde Nast.

  • I Work For A European-Wide Headhunting Agency.

    Ripley's Game (2002)

  • Doing a bit of headhunting, so to speak, trying to figure out who a worthy successor would be.

    Iron Man 2 (2010)

  • She has 30 years of experience in HR, training, and headhunting in both private and public sectors, and is a published author.

    Blog text (6)

  • At some point in that journey, you get a call from, you get headhunted by Mehta.

  • He was headhunted by some of the top universities because he got the highest in the.

  • Instead, I believe social media networking is yet another tool that recruiters can utilize in this new age of headhunting for talent.

    Blog text (26)

  • It might have been Colonel Ponsonby's thrilling Headhunting in the South Pacific or Baedeker's Guide to Geneva.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • She has worked in headhunting for over a decade, helping businesses recruit skilled professionals.

  • The headhunting process involves identifying and attracting highly qualified candidates for key roles.

Synonyms

placement
vsheadhunting
  • Specialized
57 3.4

Finding a suitable job for someone often through an agency

focuses on finding highly qualified people for important executive roles

How Senior

headhunting
1 4.0
recruitment
70 3.0
hiring
125 1.3

Surface Forms

headhunting singular
headhuntings plural

Morphology

headhunting = headhunt (transparent) = head + hunt + ing

Formed by adding -ing to the verb 'headhunt' (head + hunt); the recruitment sense is a clear metaphorical extension and is readily inferable from the base.

Etymology

Headhunting comes from the two words head and hunt; think of head as a 'leader' or important person and hunt as 'to look for'. So headhunting is like 'hunting' for top people, which is why it means searching for and recruiting highly qualified staff.