Headhunting is like Fine Arts and Rocket Science, Mass Recruiting is the modern job slavery and like fast-food
Yes, there was a blog post about this 1 year ago by BREADHUNTER , but I think during these times, you can't talk enough about this topic to open people's mind and attitude about it. If HR departments and companies understand the difference of this topic, I am sure the quality of the right, fitting candidates will rise and you have in the end engaged and happy employees, instead of just another filled position with a bread-and-butter-worker. In times where professions are diluted by adventurers, executive search and headhunting came to a professional level like a real-estate-agents. Everybody does it, from housewives to financial-services sales freaks or ex-car salesmen. Because you have no seal of quality our industry was flooded by everyone who had no idea, which job he can do, so let's became a recruiter. Ok, now to the difference of the fine arts of real headhunting, which is also like cooking with a lot of spices and high-quality ingredients vs. fast food....