Headhunted

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Headhunted

Everyone on the trading floor knows it’s a headhunter calling because the name is unfamiliar and usually improbable. Your phone rings when you’re standing chatting, away from your desk. A colleague answers, there’s a furrowed brow and then often the caller will have to repeat his alias several times because not many Sebastians or Arabellas ring you in the normal scheme of things.

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