Reply to: All those headhunter threads (well some of them)

[DodgyAgent]

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

unless prefixed with the word "Dick"

[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.

[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

[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.

[shaunbhoy]

Headhunting is a forensic and highly organised process to find the best/most suitable in an entire market.

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

[DodgyAgent]

Is that right? I thought the definition of head-hunting would be that someone has actually heard of you by name for work/reputation... "Oh, Bob's my network manager, he knows more about this stuff than anyone I ever met".
To me, it implies a personal element, like networking but without you knowing about it.

A reccommendation is not headhunting. reccommendations like most other forms of recruitment are entirely random. Headhunting is a forensic and highly organised process to find the best/most suitable in an entire market.

[shaunbhoy]

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.

Well without risking incurring the wrath of the swear/smut-filters, it is a little difficult to imagine just what "niche" sg fits into.



PS The was added for extra irritability to those who find it annoying.

[norrahe]

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.

[shaunbhoy]

So you are being offered > 100k basic? For what job title?

Head Rentboy

HTH

[Churchill]

Head hunting is a warlike practise of violently severing a 'head' from the body and taking it back to your village.

So the metaphor suggests an aggressive struggle to prize the 'heads' from the bodies of oranisations and place them elsewhere.

I'd suggest that none of us are in that league. Getting a call, doing an interview, and being offered £50 more a day is just normal business.

So you are being offered > 100k basic? For what job title?

Aww come on mate, stop pissing on his birthday cake.

[JimBobTwoTeeth]

WHS

So you are being offered > 100k basic? For what job title?

[JimBobTwoTeeth]

Head hunting is a warlike practise of violently severing a 'head' from the body and taking it back to your village.

So the metaphor suggests an aggressive struggle to prize the 'heads' from the bodies of oranisations and place them elsewhere.

I'd suggest that none of us are in that league. Getting a call, doing an interview, and being offered £50 more a day is just normal business.

[The Wikir Man]

Tends to start with vague conversations about whether you know anyone that might have the following skillset.

Then after a bit, the skillset becomes more specific.

Then even more specific.

Then just exactly what you have as a skill (e.g. Must have worked for ABC Ltd between 1990 and 1991).

And they won't use the phrase "head hunted" at any stage.

IIRC, RH was head hunted recently, so might have a different experience.

[sasguru]

A mate of a mate is a corporate headhunter. He explained it to me in simple financial terms (in 1998) - if the basic is under £100k, it's not being headhunted.

WHS

[The Wikir Man]

A mate of a mate is a corporate headhunter. He explained it to me in simple financial terms (in 1998) - if the basic is under £100k, it's not being headhunted.