What's the difference between headhunter and personnel?

Headhunter


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patten is understood to have ruled out any such plan after consultation with Egon Zehnder, the headhunting firm that recently delivered the "job spec" for the next director general to the BBC Trust.
  • (2) The fact is we are going to be collateral damage,” Another woman told Linde how she was currently being headhunted for a major job in London but had been asked to sign a contract guaranteeing her rights to permanent residency in the UK, something she said she could not do.
  • (3) Global headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles found that more than one in four (27%) chief executives in Germany had a background in engineering.
  • (4) As Bauckham cautions, though, however much schools are prepared to pay for headhunting, the problem of filling vacancies will persist until more fundamental issues about the shortage of candidates are addressed.
  • (5) Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, told Monday's Times that he has appointed headhunters Egon Zehnder to identify the scope and remit of the director general role that will be filled by Thompson's successor.
  • (6) After a year in London working for Elf Aquitaine, Welby was headhunted by Enterprise Oil, a company formed to exploit the privatisation of British Gas's North Sea assets.
  • (7) All the interviews supported the notion of an arbitrary norm for pay, which almost all firms felt was grossly and inappropriately high … The general view of search firms is that a lower norm would not materially affect what happens.” One headhunter said: “I think there are an awful lot of FTSE 100 CEOs who are pretty mediocre.” Another added: “I think that the wage drift over the past 10 years, or the salary drift, has been inexcusable, incomprehensible, and it is very serious for the social fabric of the country.” The findings are being made public just as an analysis by the High Pay Centre thinktank shows that the average pay of a chief executive – including pensions, share options and bonuses – stands at about £4.6m.
  • (8) The group, which has appointed headhunting firm Egon Zehnder to lead the search, did not expect to select a new chief executive until the outcome of the general election – and the new government's plans for Royal Mail – became known.
  • (9) Robert Peston The BBC's enthusiastic business editor, Peston would be on any headhunters' list although he will be seen as an outsider.
  • (10) Curtis, a Glaswegian with a clipped English accent, ran the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds for 11 highly regarded years and had to be persuaded by headhunters to apply for the Tate Britain job, replacing Stephen Deuchar, who moved to the Art Fund.
  • (11) "Some of the Northern Rock staff brought their money to Barclays," said Hoffman – now one of the country's highest paid civil servants after being headhunted to become chief executive of the Newcastle-based lender.
  • (12) During a seven-hour congressional hearing, chief executives from eight leading US banks urged the Obama administration to adopt a light touch, claiming that proposals for a $500,000 cap on Wall Street salaries are already causing a frenzy of headhunting by European rivals.
  • (13) In appointing Mann to find Hester's replacement, Hampton is turning to one of the City's best-known headhunters.
  • (14) Headhunter Richard Willis, in a coffee chain (it was a Costa) on Gresham Street, agreed with this: "Bankers' pay may seem excessively large, but I don't think paying a proportion of the money you make to staff is a bad thing.
  • (15) Headhunters have been appointed and an advert has been placed for a successor to Jana Bennett, who has moved to become BBC Worldwide's president of worldwide networks and global iPlayer.
  • (16) His attempts to return to the City at the investment bank Greenhill were derailed by the Financial Services Authority while his role at headhunters Odgers Berndtson only lasted a week .
  • (17) In 2010 she moved to Bauer to publish Grazia during a period of significant growth before being headhunted to join Hearst UK, where she published brands including Cosmopolitan, Red and Esquire across print, digital and events platforms.
  • (18) The job went to Entwistle and the same headhunters have now been asked to begin the director general succession process.
  • (19) They have also got to be highly respected in the City.” So who might the headhunters place on their list?
  • (20) Meanwhile, public sector headhunters will also be out in force, searching for a new member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, following last week’s announcement of Kristin Forbes’s decision to turn down a second term and return to her native US.

Personnel


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (3) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
  • (4) We reviewed the pre-Vietnam contents of the service medical and personnel records of 250 Vietnam combat veterans, in an attempt to identify factors predisposing to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
  • (5) The incidence of antibody to exotoxin was highest in the age groups ranging from 26 to 32 years, where the positive rates were higher than 40% and 30% for military personnel serving in Sarawak and Sabah, respectively.
  • (6) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
  • (7) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
  • (8) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
  • (9) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
  • (10) Germany’s parliament has thrown its weight behind the European campaign against Islamic State , voting with a solid majority in favour of deploying military personnel to Syria in a non-combat role.
  • (11) Fifty-five myopic naval personnel with no previous contact lens experience were put through a three-week study using these contact lenses.
  • (12) Seventy-three percent of respondents believed that endoscopy places personnel at risk for contracting AIDS.
  • (13) For all personnel the geometric mean (GM) time-weighted average (TWA) exposures to halothane and nitrous oxide over the working period were 2.6 ppm (range: less than 0.5 119 ppm) and 100 ppm (range: 14-1700 ppm), respectively.
  • (14) Twenty-nine individuals including four inpatients and 25 hospital personnel were involved.
  • (15) Throughout the decade that it took GM to recall the Cobalt, there was a lack of accountability, a lack of urgency, and a failure of company personnel charged with ensuring the safety of the company's vehicles to understand how GM's own cars were designed.
  • (16) We are doing this to ensure our work can continue while taking care of the security and safety of our personnel."
  • (17) In a group of 828 women who accepted NORPLANT 285 insertions were performed by physicians and 543 by nonphysician health personnel.
  • (18) Also important are the patient's cooperation and the nursing personnel's experience.
  • (19) US military aircraft and personnel arrived in Nepal on Sunday and were due to begin helping ferry relief supplies to stricken areas outside the capital.
  • (20) I think there have been concerns expressed going back to our time in government about ensuring safety at sea in all of these operations, including the possibility of turnbacks, safety at sea not only for asylum seekers but also importantly for Australian personnel.

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