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The Headhunting Business
Stephanie Jones
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Description for The Headhunting Business
Hardcover. This book seeks to provide an insight into the origins, progress and performance of the top-level search industry in Britain, based on research into the experiences of users of search and candidates, as well as the industry's practitioners themselves. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
The Headhunting Business is the first detailed investigation of executive search in Britain: the recruitment of senior-level businessmen and women by intermediaries acting on behalf of client companies, popularly known as 'headhunters'. Sweeping aside the popular mythology surrounding headhunting, this book analyses exactly how the business works in practice. Dr Jones has interviewed hundreds of executive search consultants, their clients and candidates, producing an in-depth anatomy of this vital business service, now employed by up to 90 per cent of major British companies, which hardly existed a decade ago. Dr Jones argues that the top end of the market ... Read more
The Headhunting Business is the first detailed investigation of executive search in Britain: the recruitment of senior-level businessmen and women by intermediaries acting on behalf of client companies, popularly known as 'headhunters'. Sweeping aside the popular mythology surrounding headhunting, this book analyses exactly how the business works in practice. Dr Jones has interviewed hundreds of executive search consultants, their clients and candidates, producing an in-depth anatomy of this vital business service, now employed by up to 90 per cent of major British companies, which hardly existed a decade ago. Dr Jones argues that the top end of the market ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333519417
SKU
V9780333519417
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Stephanie Jones
STEPHANIE JONES is a freelance business writer and historian. On completing her PhD, Dr Jones joined the international trading group Inchcape as archivist and company historian. Her history of Inchcape, Two Centuries of Overseas Trading, published by Macmillan, appeared in 1986. She subsequently worked freelance as a teacher of economic history at London School of Economics and the ... Read more
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