Example: When a pretty girl is approached by someone on the streets and asked to become a model for (let’s say) Channel. The person who approached her (if he's not a serial killer) is called a "headhunter". Usually when you need a job you go out there, on job market, and try to sell yourself to potential employers. Well, headhunting is the opposite mechanism. Someone, called a "headhunter" goes into the wild and looks for potential employee* (headhunters like to use the word associate/partner/collaborator rather than employee, because you're all going to be best friends, party all night long, and make lots of money in the mean time). Depending on which field the “headhunter” is working in, he would: check Linkedin profiles, tweets, Facebook accounts, toastmasters seminars, TED conventions, college graduation ceremonies, and whatnot.... in order to find the "Pearl" يبحث عن الشخص دو العقل الجوهرة باللفظ المجازي. Being "headhunted" is kind of a privilege that happens to those who have the potential of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg, Jordan Belfort or Gisele Bundchen. Headhunters are not looking for the average employee. They want "la créme de la créme", meaning the best of the best, top skilled person. So, the employee is better be really good after he's hired, or else the "headhunter" would literally "head hunt him" and chop off his head!

If someone was headhunted by Korn Ferry for Goldman Sachs, it means that Goldman Sachs hired him through the services of Korn Ferry, the executive search firm.

A "headhunter" is a person or firm that finds employees for other firms. They are paid a percentage of the found employee's salary as their fee for their work.