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Discover LudwigThe word 'headhunting' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to the practice of aggressively seeking out and recruiting highly skilled or talented individuals for employment, often from other companies. Example: The tech company was struggling to find qualified candidates for their open positions, so they turned to headhunting to attract top talent from their competitors.
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headhunting
verb
Present participle of headhunt
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Headhunting firms have also suffered, as demand has slumped for their help in filling lower-level jobs at client firms.Kiss me, I'm a frogBut not every job can be filled online.
"Headhunting can take three to six months, and I needed someone straight away," he recalls.
Headhunting Wobbly pillars Reprints Related items Allianz and Dresdner Bank: For better, for worseAug 15th 2002Mr Diekmann is said to have been sceptical about the Dresdner deal.
It is not necessary to interpret these findings as remains of headhunting or developed skull cults; for even today some simple hunting and gathering societies have the custom of preserving such parts of corpses for long periods of time and even of carrying them around on their bodies.
Headhunting was motivated by a desire for revenge and by the belief that a head gave the taker supernatural power.
Headhunters and others often consumed bits of the bodies or heads of deceased enemies as a means of absorbing their vitality or other qualities and reducing their powers of revenge (see also headhunting).
Headhunting arises in some cultures from a belief in the existence of a more or less material soul matter on which all life depends.
Headhunting in Assam was normally carried on by parties of raiders who depended on surprise tactics to achieve their ends.
Headhunting, practice of removing and preserving human heads.
Cannibalism, slavery, honor killing, headhunting, public executions, and torture have been widely practiced by a range of societies, but are reviled in the contemporary West.
In Indonesia it extended through Ceram, where the Alfurs were headhunters, and to New Guinea, where headhunting was practiced by the Motu.
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