Headhunter

The company president has hired a headhunter to find us a new sales manager.

We were accommodated here in the verandah of the large house, in which were several great baskets of dried human heads, the trophies of past generations of head-hunters.

Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.

Near-synonyms: recruiter, talent scout

A headhunter called me out of the blue with an offer I couldn't refuse.

Thankfully, there aren't many headhunters in the modern game.

He is known as a goon and a headhunter.