If you are reading this, then you are fortunate to be part of a population for whom Headhunting no longer involves the removal of a person's head after killing him or her.
According to Wikipedia, the original Headhunting practice was first discussed (and if you were a living witness of such a thing, you probably needed to talk to someone) during the pre-colonial era in parts of China, India, Nigeria, Nuristan (northeastern Afghanistan), Myanmar, Borneo, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Micronesia (an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Papua New Guinea), Melanesia (a sub-region of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia), New Zealand, and the Amazon Basin, as well as among certain tribes of the Celts and Scythians of ancient Europe. Good to see that the parts of the world now known as Sandton, Johannesburg and Gauteng does not make the list.
Those annual letters home from the colonies must have made fairly interesting drawing-room reading when relatives were informed of the unfortunate incident of the Head of a beloved explorer having been hunted by the locals.
"Dear Aunt Agatha, My cousin Samuel, your son, would have penned this note himself but a funny thing happened on the walk from the ship to the settlement...."
Anthropologically speaking, the pursuit of Headhunting is obviously an interesting one. No doubt hunting someone down and removing their head to subsequently form part of a Chieftain's fetching ceremonial outfit fulfilled all sorts of social requirements, functions and motives, but let us rather shift the focus to the modern meaning of 'Headhunter'.
A Headhunter in the true modern sense is a high-end, retained fee, executive search firm that works on behalf of organisations to find the perfect candidate. As a Headhunting firm, the Woodburn Mann team puts all their efforts into finding the perfect population of candidates for a particular position. Once the candidates are identified we 'hunt' them down (in the nicest possible ways) and deliver the best of the 'Heads' to our client for final selection.
We are proud that many organisations have 'Heads' that Woodburn Mann has hunted over the last 26 years adorning their Boards and Executive Committees.
Please visit the following links to find out more about the art of modern Headhunting and how it can assist your organisation:
You may also like to know what to expect should you be our quarry (it won't hurt, we promise):
If you are reading this, then you are fortunate to be part of a population for whom Headhunting no longer involves the removal of a person's head after killing him or her.
According to Wikipedia, the original Headhunting practice was first discussed (and if you were a living witness of such a thing, you probably needed to talk to someone) during the pre-colonial era in parts of China, India, Nigeria, Nuristan (northeastern Afghanistan), Myanmar, Borneo, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Micronesia (an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, north of Papua New Guinea), Melanesia (a sub-region of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia), New Zealand, and the Amazon Basin, as well as among certain tribes of the Celts and Scythians of ancient Europe. Good to see that the parts of the world now known as Sandton, Johannesburg and Gauteng does not make the list.
Those annual letters home from the colonies must have made fairly interesting drawing-room reading when relatives were informed of the unfortunate incident of the Head of a beloved explorer having been hunted by the locals.
"Dear Aunt Agatha, My cousin Samuel, your son, would have penned this note himself but a funny thing happened on the walk from the ship to the settlement...."
Anthropologically speaking, the pursuit of Headhunting is obviously an interesting one. No doubt hunting someone down and removing their head to subsequently form part of a Chieftain's fetching ceremonial outfit fulfilled all sorts of social requirements, functions and motives, but let us rather shift the focus to the modern meaning of 'Headhunter'.
A Headhunter in the true modern sense is a high-end, retained fee, executive search firm that works on behalf of organisations to find the perfect candidate. As a Headhunting firm, the Woodburn Mann team puts all their efforts into finding the perfect population of candidates for a particular position. Once the candidates are identified we 'hunt' them down (in the nicest possible ways) and deliver the best of the 'Heads' to our client for final selection.
We are proud that many organisations have 'Heads' that Woodburn Mann has hunted over the last 26 years adorning their Boards and Executive Committees.
Please visit the following links to find out more about the art of modern Headhunting and how it can assist your organisation:
You may also like to know what to expect should you be our quarry (it won't hurt, we promise):