What is recruitment through head hunting in human resource management?
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It means that Human Resources are using staffing agencies or Head Hunter agencies to find the best personnel possible to fill the position that is open. Those agencies screen all applicants to make sure only the ones who best suit the position are then passed on to the HR department that hired them. They probably do this that way the HR manager doesn't have to sift through hundreds or possibly thousands of Resume's when they are already very busy.
We refer to a herd as so many "head of cattle." It is easier to count visible heads than say less visible legs and divide by four, I'd guess. In like manner, at football games we ask what is the "head count." Recruitment through "head hunting" in human resources is a cute way of recognizing that you are interested especially in the person's head. If a company needs a few more rocket scientists, they hire a recruiter to "head hunt" for qualified candidates (it is often implied that they must be recruited away from the competition). At one time, "head hunters" actually shrunk them too, establishing common usage of the term.
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