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headhunting
[ hed-huhn-ting ]
noun
- the act or practice of actively searching for new employees, especially for professionals or executives:
Every June the electronics manufacturers go headhunting among the newly graduated engineers.
- the act or practice of firing without cause, especially someone disliked:
Their periodic headhunting was a contributing factor in the company's failures.
- the act or practice of trying to destroy the power, position, or influence of one's competitors or foes:
Headhunting is ferocious in advertising.
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Origin of headhunting1
Example Sentences
As I reported at the time, his name came to the Board of Governors independently of a headhunting firm that the board had commissioned to find candidates for postmaster general.
A Northern California headhunting firm was hired last month conduct a nationwide search for the city’s next top cop, a process that is expected to last through August.
Los Angeles officials have hired a Northern California-based headhunting firm to identify and vet candidates to be the next chief of police.
Its business model is also different—in addition to selling ad space, like most social media platforms do, it’s long had a paid subscription called LinkedIn Premium that lets paying users peep other people’s profiles discreetly, send a message to anyone on the platform, and gain access to additional job-seeking or headhunting tools.
Headhunting firm Hangzhou Juqi Technology posted an ad in March on ResearchGate, a social network for academics, seeking people with doctorates from top universities and experience at Fortune 500 companies to help recruit 5,000 overseas researchers for Chinese enterprises.
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