Converse of subject

• approach: Tony Hall: I was approached by a headhunter who said, Would you consider putting your name forward for this?

Converse of object

• appoint: So, why should you appoint a headhunter, over your own HR department?

• use: An organization may use headhunters for any one or a combination of the following reasons.

• ask: He spotted her potential and asked headhunters to approach her.

• say: Rentokil Initial said headhunters had been appointed and they are well into the process of finding a new chief executive.

• make: In Papua there was a tradition hat, when warring tribes of headhunters made peace, they exchanged a child.

Preposition: for

• service: Search and Selection City of London based headhunters for financial services, systems and software, and new media sectors.

Adjective modifier

• corporate: If you are a corporate headhunter wanting to offer me a huge wedge to join your company please read on and be suitably impressed.

• top: Wrapping the seminar up, Nicholas Cobbold, top headhunter from City firm Norman Broadbent, gave a historical perspective to the industry.

• former: Now the former headhunter wants not only to keep Polish talent in Poland, but to reverse the brain drain.

Noun used with modifier

• specialist: Elliot Marsh Elliot Marsh are specialist headhunters for the building services, consulting engineering, engineering, process control and industrial automation markets.