headhunting
present participle ofheadhunt
headhunt
verb[T]
uk/ˈhed.hʌnt/us/ˈhed.hʌnt/topersuadesomeone toleavetheirjobbyofferingthatpersonanotherjobwith morepayand ahigherposition:
She was headhunted by arivalfirm.
Applying for a job
- acquihire
- advertisement
- anoint
- anointed
- applicant
- assign
- elect
- get in
- go intosomething
- golden hello
- goonda
- handpicked
- nomination
- referee
- relocation expenses
- resume
- retain
- rope
- self-constituted
- testimonial
Examplesofheadhunting
headhunting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They also made regular use of the border to escape punishment from one or the other state, forheadhunting, tax evasion, and the like.
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They agreed to ceaseheadhunting, to bring all disputes to the government, and stop trading in smuggled goods.
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They had no military training but a keen desire forheadhuntingand plunder.
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I hope to have an undertaking tonight that this sort of "headhunting" will cease forthwith.
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That is a much slower rate of growth than the national lottery, but we started theheadhuntingindustry with £2,000 of equity capital and a £2,000 loan.
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That experience is not strictly relevant, becauseheadhuntingprimarily involves approaching individuals direct rather than recruitment advertising.
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This is, for example, the case if an employer asks aheadhuntingagency to be selective on improper grounds.
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I regardheadhuntingas a ghastly evil, born of desperation.
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I hope that he has taken time to find out about theheadhuntingthat is going on for the new senior chief inspector.
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Headhuntingstarted in this country 35 years ago, and the industry now has a volume of £100 million.
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This applies both in the secretarial field and also possibly in the world known as the world ofheadhunting.
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He explained with a smile that they had now discontinued theheadhuntingpractice.
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Such an approach may involve not onlyheadhuntingbut advertising.
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But we are certainly not fostering that if we turn recruitment into a by-product of aheadhuntingfirm, primarily concerned with recruitment to bottom-line-dominated private business.
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They can be opportunistic inheadhuntingkey employees, both technical and managerial.
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- cooperative activity
- cooperative agreement
- cooperative approach
- cooperative arrangement
- cooperative bank
- cooperative-bank
- cooperative behaviour
- cooperative education
- cooperative effort
- cooperative enterprise
- cooperative interaction
- cooperatively
- cooperative marketing
- cooperative-marketing
- cooperative ownership
- cooperative play
- cooperative project
- cooperative research
- cooperative sector
- cooperative society
- cooperative-society
- cooperative solution
- cooperative spirit
- cooperative store
- cooperative-store