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headhunting

[hed-huhn-ting] / ˈhɛdˌhʌn tɪŋ /


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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024

Those expat executives willing to relocate to the kingdom from neighboring Dubai, United Arab Emirates, can ask for 20% to 35% extra, according to headhunting firm Mark Williams.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2023

He lost the case, but the litigation produced documents that he sent to Congress and the Justice Department, including spreadsheets showing commissions attributed to Mrs. Roberts early in her headhunting career, from 2007 to 2014.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2023

The firm said on Sunday it would work with a headhunting firm to find a new CEO and did not set a timetable for the process.

From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2022

The quality of statesmanship in Wood which dealt with these problems and settled them so that from a slave-holding, polygamous, headhunting land there arose a self-governing community is of the highest order.

From The Career of Leonard Wood by Sears, Joseph Hamblen