Given the growth of executive search firms, they worry all the time that their man may be on the database of some predatory headhunter.
And then, one day, her secretary convinced her to take the kind of call from a corporate headhunter that she had always declined to take in the past.
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With the economy slowly turning around and unemployment falling into single digits in many areas of the country, look for headhunter and recruiter activity to pick up.
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Board member Kelvin Westbrook, chief executive of Millennium Digital Media, led the committee, which hired headhunter firm Spencer Stuart and told it to look for someone with experience as a chief executive.
Consider the saga of Jeffrey Abraham, a 45-year-old headhunter who got into a jousting match with a client, Hyundai Semiconductor of America, over its hiring practices.
Instantly transformed from aggressive headhunter to weak and hunted, I spent most of the next two hours just trying to stay alive, slowly cobbling back my chip count.
The Indian anchors were replaced with Americans, most of whom had to Google the company when they got called by Veria's headhunter.
So in 1995 McDonald's recruited Mario Resca, a well-connected headhunter and owner of four Milan franchises, to take charge of the country for 20% of the equity.
Barbara Thomas Judge, 66, a corporate lawyer who did three years as an SEC commissioner in her mid-30s, threw herself into learning about nuclear energy after a headhunter recruited her 12 years ago to chair the audit committee of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority.
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Headhunter commissions, once limited to a one-time fee equal to one-third of the recruit's annual salary, have morphed to include stock options and warrants as well.
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