FAO Dodgy and other agents here...

[Bunk]

I think usually a headhunter is used when a company is trying to poach a particular individual from another company. It doesn't really apply to the usual tulip we go through with agents.

A lot of agents use the term to describe themselves because it makes them feel superior and more importantly makes the candidate feel special.

If you are being headhunted, the interview should be a bit of a shoe-in because they came looking for you, not the other way round.

[realityhack]

Why RH?

Has someone 'been in touch'?

Yep. A few have over the last few months. Just wondered if these were jumped up little barrow-boys, but they know their stuff. The last chap who rang today has a clear understanding of my skillset and the market. More than most.

[DodgyAgent]

Yep. A few have over the last few months. Just wondered if these were jumped up little barrow-boys, but they know their stuff. The last chap who rang today has a clear understanding of my skillset and the market. More than most.

Someone is probably trying to get rid of you- no one headhunts contractors. Good agents will use headhunting techniques to identify names of suitable people in suitable companies but that is as far as it goes.

[EternalOptimist]

Someone is probably trying to get rid of you- no one headhunts contractors. Good agents will use headhunting techniques to identify names of suitable people in suitable companies but that is as far as it goes.

you b@stard. you bursted his bubble.

ignore him RH

[DodgyAgent]

I think usually a headhunter is used when a company is trying to poach a particular individual from another company. It doesn't really apply to the usual tulip we go through with agents.

A lot of agents use the term to describe themselves because it makes them feel superior and more importantly makes the candidate feel special.

If you are being headhunted, the interview should be a bit of a shoe-in because they came looking for you, not the other way round.

Companies use headhunters to find the very best/most suitable in an entire skills market. Or they use them to pick out certain individuals as you say that they know about but wish to put an agency between themselves and the candidates.

The only "shoe-in" is an interview with the headhunter as the hunter will deliver a short list of the best candidates to be interviewed by the client.

[MrMark]

Someone is probably trying to get rid of you- no one headhunts contractors. Good agents will use headhunting techniques to identify names of suitable people in suitable companies but that is as far as it goes.

Surely if someone wants rid of a contractor, they merely fail to renew the contract (or cuts short the existing one)? Seems pretty far-fetched (and possible ineffectual) to have a contractor head-hunted in order to get rid of him/her?

[DodgyAgent]

Surely if someone wants rid of a contractor, they merely fail to renew the contract (or cuts short the existing one)? Seems pretty far-fetched (and possible ineffectual) to have a contractor head-hunted in order to get rid of him/her?

I was joking

[MrMark]

I was joking

Heh. Stupid me again - believing what an agent said...

[TheFaQQer]

Someone is probably trying to get rid of you- no one headhunts contractors. Good agents will use headhunting techniques to identify names of suitable people in suitable companies but that is as far as it goes.

Isn't RH permie?

[cojak]

Isn't RH permie?

A lot of contingency agents and candidates like to think that they have either headhunted or been headhunted simply because they have been approached "out of the blue". However usually this is because a name has been given to an agent in order to get rid of an unwanted colleague/employee.

SShhhhhhhhsh....