Research is essential

Most headhunters these days are either very good or very bad

The phone rings. "Can you talk, privately?" There are two types of conversation that start this way. Whichever it is, your employer would almost certainly rather you just said no and did not take the cal

In the first instance you are talking to a journalist and in the second, one of the other great untouchables: the headhunter. In that case, the call may be the start of a beautiful relationship – or at least a relationship that should lead to a better job, even if you were not looking for one.

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