From: "Matt Robertson" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Help! I have been head hunted aparently!
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:46:55 GMT


"John"  wrote in message
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> Hello.
>
> I am just after a bit of advice.  Today at work I received a telephone
> call from someone who wanted to speak with me, and claimed he was a
> head hunter.
>
> I have slight doubts about this as I don't understand why anyone would
> want to head hunt me?  I am also a little suspicious because he got my
> first name slightly wrong, he asked for Jonathan, not John, but he did
> get my second name correct.
>
> The reason I am also a little suspicious is because the company I work
> for had to unfortunately make a number of people redundant, and I
> believe that perhaps the person may really be someone trying to get
> people to speak out against the company on behalf of others who were
> made redundant.
>
> What are your thoughts?  I always believe it was only the top people
> at companies that got head hunted, not the people nearer the bottom?
>
> I was quite busy at work but I asked him to call me back at around 7pm
> tonight as I am quite intrigued to what he has to say.
>
> If anyone can offer any advice before then on this I'd appreciate it.
>
> John
>
>

If there is a sniff of redundancies, the recruitment agencies will be all
over key employees - why so suspicious?  What have you got to lose by
speaking with them?