How to Use headhunter in a Sentence

headhunter

noun

• The Wa, notorious headhunters, liked to arrange long rows of skulls on pikes, and would sometimes kill outsiders on sight.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• One of the best ways to find a new job is to enlist the help of a headhunter.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• The past year and a half has been open season for headhunters in the food industry.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
• One woman risked terrorists, headhunters, and the 'fish mafia' to see an Asian arowana in the wild.
  — National Geographic, 17 July 2016
• The job is no different from that of a headhunter, says Taksh Gupta, its founder.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• As the big headhunters have grown bigger, boutique firms have struggled to keep up.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• The Hammer board will need time to select a headhunter to begin the sure-to-be-lengthy search for a new director.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Amazon’s board will want to hang on to his magic touch for as long as possible, says a headhunter who knows the firm well.
  — The Economist, 18 June 2020
• A few weeks in, a friend set me up with a headhunter for administrative jobs.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 7 May 2017
• Here, members of Forbes Coaches Council share 16 key insights to keep in mind during your search for a headhunter to find the right fit.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Like them or not, headhunters play a pivotal role in helping countless job seekers find work.
  — Maurie Backman, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2017
• Jackson first connected with Wise in 2012, when a headhunter tried to recruit him from Post to run the fast-growing startup.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 12 Dec. 2017
• Your final option is to provide him your contacts, while letting the headhunters know of your concerns about him.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• But your job as a recruiter or headhunter is to dive deeper than even a good resume portrays a candidate.
  — John M. O'Connor, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Vanderbilt has used a search firm and/or headhunter three times on coaching searches since 2011.
  — John Talty, AL.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• In 1989, a headhunter recruited her for a job in Citicorp’s private-banking arm.
  — New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
• She had never met Milken until they were introduced through a headhunter.
  — Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Gordon, a current member of faculty, says he was warned by a headhunter to leave Hong Kong as fast as possible.
  — Cnn Staff, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
• These wild soirees are used as a recruiting tool, say headhunters as well as current and former employees . . .
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 6 June 2017
• Junior analysts a few weeks on the job can now expect a flurry of emails from headhunters for some of the most prestigious private equity firms in the world.
  — Yueqi Yang, Bloomberg.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• With so little to go on, headhunters rely on college grades and the pedigree of their current employers as proxies.
  — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2018
• Bringing these skills together with a headhunter’s mindset is a unique balance.
  — Alison Coleman, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• One of those two was at best looking at a demotion or checking in with an executive headhunter.
  — Dallas News, 19 July 2022
• The modern headhunter is part researcher, part sounding board and part concierge, making all the arrangements on the down low for conference calls and interviews.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• While playing with her daughter at a playground on Wednesday, a headhunter called asking her to travel for an interview.
  — Dallas News, 27 May 2022
• Consulting alumni are eyed by headhunters for the ability to see patterns, problems, and solutions from a bird’s-eye view.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Secret searches have become more prevalent as headhunters have become ubiquitous in the hunt for presidents, deans and provosts, the George Mason study found.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Oct. 2017
• The data revealed that around 18% of them had been recruited to their current role by either a firm directly or an external headhunter.
  — Pavel Krapivin, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• The headhunter politely points out that the job seeker’s current title is several levels above what his client is willing to offer.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• Talk to an employment agency, recruiter, or headhunter.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024