0 to persuade someone to leave their job by offering that person another job with more pay and a higher position: --
1 to find someone who has the qualifications for an important job and is willing to leave their present job: --
be headhunted for sth He was headhunted for the chief executive's job by a firm of outside consultants.
They go in there to kind of headhunt.
They can be opportunistic in headhunting key employees, both technical and managerial.
His chief salesman was headhunted.
Headhunting started in this country 35 years ago, and the industry now has a volume of £100 million.
After being headhunted for a human resources management post, he was rejected at the final interview.
A chief of staff or a commander-in-chief cannot be headhunted from outside the service.
During the period of change, some of its brightest executives will be headhunted by the new consortia bidding.
That experience is not strictly relevant, because headhunting primarily involves approaching individuals direct rather than recruitment advertising.
