headhunter
headhunter
Definition
head·hunter (hed′hunt′ər)
noun
- a member of any of certain primitive peoples that remove the heads of slain enemies and preserve them as trophies
- ☆ Slang an agent or agency specializing in the recruitment of executive or highly skilled personnel
head′·hunt′·ing noun
headhunter
Usage Examples
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.
