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headhunter

Recruitment consultant who adopts a proactive strategy for finding candidates for a position. Unlike conventional recruitment agencies, headhunters use their network of contacts actively to search out a candidate. The prospective candidate will invariably be in work already. Headhunting is an expensive method of tracking down a potential employee. It is a practice frequently used to locate senior executives.



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A call from a head-hunter brought him to the point of heading a German firm's new Japanese operation, but at the eleventh hour a counter-promotion from his company and a sense of guilt and shame stopped him.
 
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