Headhunted

[alser20]

What are people's thoughts on the meaning of "headhunted" ?

I always thought it meant, you and you alone being approached by a company and being offered a lot of money to leave your current postion to join them.

A contractor I work with says he's been headhunted, and had his cv submitted somewhere. That to me is just being put forward for a job along with a few other people. Nothing more.

Any thoughts ?

Al

[Pogle]

You contracting chum has an elevated opinion of him/her self.

[Rookie]

What are people's thoughts on the meaning of "headhunted" ?

I always thought it meant, you and you alone being approached by a company and being offered a lot of money to leave your current postion to join them.

A contractor I work with says he's been headhunted, and had his cv submitted somewhere. That to me is just being put forward for a job along with a few other people. Nothing more.

Any thoughts ?

Al

Permie speak.

[FSM with Cheddar]

Every time someone has called me and said they are a Headhunter, they have been a complete time waster.

They are agents with a slightly bigger ego than the rest.

[NotAllThere]

I was genuinely headhunted once. For a CIO job with a "Dutch energy company". But the pay was lousy.

[DodgyAgent]

What are people's thoughts on the meaning of "headhunted" ?

I always thought it meant, you and you alone being approached by a company and being offered a lot of money to leave your current postion to join them.

A contractor I work with says he's been headhunted, and had his cv submitted somewhere. That to me is just being put forward for a job along with a few other people. Nothing more.

Any thoughts ?

Al

"headhunting" is an abused word. Abused by twits who put that they were "headhunted from their previous jobs on their CVs and by agents who think that picking the phone up and dialling a random number suddenly makes them worthy of a call up from the chief exectuve of HSBC.

If you are being headhunted it means that you are being lined up against ALL the other people in your line of specialism and assessed against them. There will be a team of researchers turning up every single person on the entire market with that skill. If you are then called forward for an interview with the client then you will be one of a shortlist. If you are then hired it will probably mean you are the best of the lot who is willing to take the job on offer.

Headhunters are used when someone wants the best, which is why a lot of dorks like to think that they have been headhunted. Often the reality is that one of their colleagues (probably their boss) who thinks they are s*it has given their name to some oikish little recrutiment scroat so that he can get rid of him without having to pay out any redundancy money.

[Platypus]

Often the reality is that one of their colleagues (probably their boss) who thinks they are s*it has given their name to some oikish little recrutiment scroat so that he can get rid of him without having to pay out any redundancy money.

[Mich the Tester]

I was genuinely headhunted once. For a CIO job with a "Dutch energy company". But the pay was lousy.

agent's margin was enormous. CIOs in the Dutch energy sector have very good salaries and pension schemes based on public sector pay agreements.

[DodgyAgent]

agent's margin was enormous. CIOs in the Dutch energy sector have very good salaries and pension schemes based on public sector pay agreements.

What was the brief for the job?

"Find me some gullible tw*t desperate for a job, butter him him uo by making him feel important and stick him on the helpdesk to deal with our most difficult customers"

"Oh and by the way when he is the last one to leave he wont need to put the lights out as that will already have happened"

[Mich the Tester]

What was the brief for the job?

"Find me some gullible tw*t desperate for a job, butter him him uo by making him feel important and stick him on the helpdesk to deal with our most difficult customers"

I'd do that job for a lot more money than they're willing to pay for it.