Headhunters are companies that are paid to search for top management and key technical positions for recruiting organizations.

Headhunters (Headhunters) is the common name for "senior management recruitment agencies", which are companies that are paid to search for top management and key technical positions for recruiting organizations. The advantages of headhunters are that they can provide professional, targeted services, high confidentiality, and save time; the disadvantage is that there may be a tendency to end up persuading the organization to hire a candidate rather than finding a person suitable for the position the organization is looking for.

The word "headhunter" is an imported word, the original meaning is to cut the head of the enemy as a trophy of the people, here means to find talent. "Head" of the wisdom, talent concentration of the place, "headhunting" refers to the hunt for talent, that is, to find, track, evaluate, select senior talent, headhunters are relying on the hunt for all types of senior talent needed to survive and profit intermediary organizations.

Industry status

It is reported that China's headhunting market, there are tens of thousands of headhunters, headhunters engaged in more than 500,000 people, and the impact of headhunters to scale up the development of the core problem is the lack of headhunting talent.

On the one hand, headhunting companies to help enterprises to solve the problem of talent recruitment, on the one hand, headhunting companies themselves are also very lack of talent, which in the headhunting layman seems to be very incomprehensible a thing, and the headhunting industry is indeed every day in the various counterparts of the poaching war.

Some people say that the financial crisis, China's headhunting market will be a serious blow, but the reality tells us that China's headhunting market is still very hot, the headhunting industry will still be like a beacon to form a prairie fire, headhunters in fact, there is no shortage of customers, because the excellent talent will always be a scarce resource, which is the fundamental reason for the existence of this market.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Headhunter