headhunting

Example Sentences

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But he said he heard about the search as soon as headhunting firm Korn Ferry started making calls several weeks ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025

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

In the city's Futian district, Candice, a 28-year-old who works with a headhunting business, expressed dismay over the latest lockdown measures.

From Reuters • Sep. 3, 2022

Swanson doesn’t want to be construed as some headhunting reliever.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 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