The executive search industry in Britain has come of age.

So why are large executive search firms going in the other direction?

Every executive search company in London will have been warned off me.

"In terms of time spent, quality control and a successful outcome, the executive search firm is a better buy."

"An executive search guy doesn't get paid until an employee is placed."

Would the company comment on the performance of individual executive search firms with whom they had worked?

She is currently a President of an international executive search and board director recruiting firm.

But several officials of executive search firms said the job prospects did not appear to be good.

"I don't think firms can do both activities well because executive search is so specialized," she said.

During the recession of the early 1980s, many traditional British firms began using executive search in a significant way.

Other accounting firms abandoned the executive search business long ago.

Perhaps a classified ad can at least catch the attention of an executive search company, he said.

Naos International is the name of an executive search firm.

Cutter left Hotjobs.com and used the revenue to found his own business, an executive search firm.

It entered into the executive search market and expanded its operation to become a job board as well.

Department of Human Services spent over $200,000 last year for an executive search firm.

That is generally done by an executive search firm.

Her father is an executive search consultant in New York.

Q. Where are you in the chief executive search?

The bank has also hired an executive search firm.

Susan P., a volunteer who works for an executive search firm, picked it up.

Executive search concerns with specialties range from health care to international finance.

She is aware of three chief executive searches being conducted by her company that include candidates other than white men.

The problem of taking a national executive search firm to the market is that they have been, up to now, a one-product company.

A further example where executive search firms are often used is in the question of size of business.

They can be opportunistic in headhunting key employees, both technical and managerial.

In headhunting it was necessary to able to draw the parang quickly.

All of a sudden a lot of recruitment agents have been headhunting me via the site.

Almost all of the smaller processors feel aggrieved by the tactics you've been using: undercutting their prices, headhunting their staff.

The other cities are headhunting Ankh-Morpork watchmen now.'

"You're headhunting me.

Or rather, you're headhunting Yann."

Executive search (informally headhunting) is a specialised recruitment service used to source candidates for senior, executive or other highly specialised positions in organizations.

Gartner next took aim on Sergei Brylin, headhunting him in front of the New Jersey bench.

Don't get me wrong I hate Kyle bush with every ounce of my being, But only a fool would stand there while 9 guys are headhunting his way.

Since the arrival of Europeans and the subsequent colonisation of the area, headhunting gradually faded out of practice although many tribal customs, practices and language continue.

But this was merely a cover, and the partners began in search from the start, subsequently headhunting many of their ex-colleagues, despite Peat Marwick Mitchell's threats of legal action.

In August 2009, the Sunday World and Daily Mirror newspaper's reported that "Slash" was headhunting Holden to replace Scott Weiland as the new "Velvet Revolver" lead vocalist.

During these years Meja also contributed to the world's music scene by headhunting her fellow artist Robyn in a local school in Stockholm, where she was performing one of her first songs as a young girl.

The editors had exactly 12 issues in which to turn things around and began furiously headhunting young scribes from the (then-ailing) underground press to help swell their ranks and inject a more "irreverently hip" attitude into the copy.

This lust for contact is the most impressive thing about Portis, according to Redskins quarterback Mark Brunell, especially when he does not have the ball and is headhunting a blitzing safety or waylaying a cornerback downfield.

The Korn/Ferry name is most widely known and publicly quoted of all search firms - Lester Korn is seen as the man who brought headhunting out into the open - and thus the firm can guarantee almost instant interest from potential candidates.