headhunt

Definition

› HR to find someone who has the qualifications for an important job and is willing to leave their present job: be headhunted for sth He was headhunted for the chief executive's job by a firm of outside consultants.

headhunting noun [U] › The board of directors has hired a headhunting firm to find a replacement for their chief executive.

(Definition of headhunt verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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