1. A headhunter for ten years, Kinnaird has just been commissioned by his first female client, which speaks volumes.

2. Unfortunately, the headhunter forgot to inform the candidate, so the meeting between the candidate and the client collapsed in misunderstanding.

3. Do you employ any defence mechanisms to protect your firm against poaching by other firms via headhunters? 11.

4. Do you use headhunters regularly or on specific occasions only? 3.

5. Many headhunters now specialise in the finance function, recruiting financial directors and financial controllers for a wide range of interests.

6. Candidates presented by headhunters: Generally appropriate 24 Not always appropriate 6 6.

7. Sometimes the headhunter receives a fee for that advice without even undertaking an executive search.

8. Do you ever ask headhunters to recruit a whole team? 4.

9. Are the salary levels of those recruited by headhunters likely to go up or come down?

10. Clients are apt to minimise numbers of assignments, whilst headhunters maximise them, and neither are willing to divulge exact figures.

11. Of course, as far as headhunters are concerned, these companies fall into the category of poaching grounds.

12. He said yesterday that he was approached by headhunters for the ￡150,000 a year stock exchange job in August.

13. They become known by the headhunters as a likely place in which to find appropriate candidates for other searches.

14. You could always return an imaginary call from a headhunter.

15. Despite the current depressed state of the advertising industry(sentence dictionary), Ashton receives a regular stream of calls from headhunters.

16. Companies in the survey were asked if they used any mechanisms to protect themselves against poaching by other businesses employing headhunters.

17. It was a headhunter who found Sir John Riddell, a successful investment banker in his early fifties.

18. Send your resume to headhunters you would like to contact you, but make certain it is professionally prepared and presented well.

19. Over recent years, headhunters have helped to make consistently good appointments without major cause for complaint.

20. Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies.

21. Head-hunter will tell you what kind of human resource the market is hungry for now and in the near future.

22. GENEVA (Reuters Life!) - Some of Switzerland's single professionals, too busy to find themselves a spouse, have employed a former corporate head-hunter to find love for them.

23. I declined her offer and the next day I was busy compiling the name of every head-hunter I could find.