All those headhunter threads (well some of them)

[Zippy]

Most of these companies operate on a referral/recommendation basis have spoken to people you have worked with at varying companies before approaching you.

They don't find your CV online and then approach you. You'll normally match niche requirements which is why you'll get a call.

That's certainly been my experience of it.

It's only happened to me once. I was totally unsuitable for the job, but I was recommended by someone who knew me. The headhunter kept trying to talk me into applying. And she was polite, she was very upfront about money etc. ,there was a great deal of flattery and she kept calling.

[Paddy]

I have never been headhunted out of a role, much to my chagrin.

Seems like there''s a lot of it about?

Has anyone been headhunted?

Yes

[MickeyP]

I was speaking to an old colleague of mine the other day for the first time in ages. He told me he had been headhunted and I instantly just thought "you are a cock and I no longer wish to talk to you". Jealousy? Maybe, I dunno. Perhaps, but he did sound like a proper cock the way he said it.

[DodgyAgent]

So hardly likely to have occurred in the bland pedestrian field that sg frequents then?

unless prefixed with the word "Dick"