A headhunter is a person who tries to persuade someone to leave their job and take another job which has better pay and more status. someone who finds people with the right skills and experience to do particular jobs, and who tries to persuade them to leave their present jobs
A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies
a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies a recruiter of personnel (especially for corporations)