(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.
Savage
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
(a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
(a.) Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
(a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
(n.) A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
(n.) A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
(v. t.) To make savage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
(2) But he will also have seen Michael Cockerell's savage documentary on Saturday on How to be a Tory leader.
(3) Lib Dems are the most hostile to cuts and the keenest on tax – 32% want cuts and 53% tax – suggesting that Clegg's talk of "savage" reductions in spending may go down badly with his party base.
(4) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(5) Vince Cable, the business secretary, who was savagely critical of BAE over bribery allegations whilst in opposition in 2010 , said: "It is a very, very important decision and has major implications for the country, both in terms of employment and national security.
(6) Wendy Savage, from Keep Our NHS Public , said groups from London, Oxford and Manchester would be demonstrating alongside members of the NHS Consultants' Association.
(7) After savaging the childcare support available to poorer working parents through tax credits in 2011, the coalition last year sought to redeem itself with a first draft of the new subsidy scheme, which created some winners up the scale, but left many more vulnerable part-time workers better off not working at all.
(8) We feel that Mrs. Savage and Dr. Francome (Dec. 2, p. 1323) provide important information to be considered in the debate about the provision of abortion services.
(9) Geller's ads, sharply dividing the world into civilized people and savages, are only intended to hurt and tear fragile relationships apart."
(10) A trained economist, and de facto "deputy chancellor" under Gordon Brown between 1997 and 2005, Balls's recent speech at Bloomberg, savaging the "growth deniers" of the Con-Dem coalition and urging a slower pace of fiscal consolidation, was hailed by Martin Wolf ("basically right") and Samuel Brittan ("spot on") of the Financial Times.
(11) Then there’s the shift from disability living allowance to the personal independence payment , which last month the public accounts committee savaged as a “fiasco”, leaving many facing six-months delays – and the dying having to wait for weeks for support.
(12) The 15-year-old was tortured and savagely beaten before he drowned in a bath at his sister’s flat in east London on Christmas Day 2010.
(13) Consequently, after Hartson fed Jason Koumas on the right in the first minute and the ball was cleared to Savage on the edge of the Russian box, Savage whacked at the bouncing ball excitedly.
(14) Their policy decisions, including increases in the cost of living, the sale of TIO [Territory Insurance Office], savage cuts to health and education and general arrogance has burned public trust in their integrity and competence,” said Snowdon, who called the party “a joke” and said nobody could take the territory seriously now.
(15) At last year’s press launch for Savage Beauty’s homecoming leg Martin Roth, the V&A director, told a story about the day, four years ago, when he landed in New York to see the show there.
(16) John Savage 'We were all cycling, listening to the Smiths' Ruth Martin outside the Salford Lads Club, Salford.
(17) Iranians complain that it represents them as savage, murderous and warmongering.
(18) In the wake of the savage killing of Rigby in broad daylight it emerged that Adebolajo and Adebowale were both known to MI5 – and Adebolajo had been approached on his return from Kenya to the UK to act as an informer and help the security services break up extremist Islamist cells.
(19) The FCO's lawyers had already conceded in court that the accounts given by the three Mau Mau veterans – of castration, rape and savage beatings – had been honest accounts, and that senior British and colonial officials had been aware of the ugly truth about daily life in the prison camps of 1950s Kenya.
(20) The corporation received 43 complaints after Robinson used the phrase on BBC1's 6pm bulletin on Wednesday, hours after the savage machete attack that killed a serving soldier in London .