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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.

Trophies


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Trophy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (2) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
  • (3) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
  • (4) Moyes is relishing the visit by Chelsea and said: "I came for this sort of level but I came to win trophies and if you are going to win them then you do need to beat teams like Chelsea and Manchester City because that's the way our league is.
  • (5) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (6) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
  • (7) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
  • (8) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
  • (9) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
  • (10) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
  • (11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (12) England will still return home having retained, for what it is worth, the Wisden Trophy.
  • (13) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
  • (14) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
  • (15) The modern era has seen numerous format changes for the trophy.
  • (16) The winner in the 94th minute, from Jonathan Woodgate, came through a mistake by the Chelsea goalkeeper, Petr Cech, but the result itself was no accident and Tottenham earned their first trophy in nine years.
  • (17) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
  • (18) They won the Supporters’ Shield in 2013, the club’s biggest trophy to date.
  • (19) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
  • (20) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."

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