In order to be successful, personal branding is crucial.
A good headhunter will seek to build a long term relationship with their business partners rather than simply offering a transactional service of ‘job-matching Image and reputation is also critical to Roger – be the person you want to be and project that image externally. Mr Brown uses his interviewing skills and takes time to understand not only his candidates' work experience but also their interests and life outside of work. In life you need to be adaptable and have the ability to roll with the punches, if ‘life gives you lemons make lemonade'. Look forward, ignore distractions and never lose sight of your goals. He gets repeatedly knocked down, however picks himself up again time after time and keeps on going.
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Roger shows a Terminator-like level of determination and focus, his will to win and be successful against a never-ending series of twists and turns is admirable. There are a few take-away points that I was able to extract from the movie. The movie depicts some aspects of a recruiter’s role well we do experience extreme highs and lows as well as constantly needing to think outside of the box. No spoiler alerts here – the movie details the life of Roger Brown, a successful headhunter who leads a double-life of recruitment and crime. Needless to say the movie left me a bit wide-eyed. All-in-all, it is an enjoyable light-hearted thriller, adapted from the book written by the excellent Jo Nesbo. When I heard that Headhunters was coming out, I thought great! Finally a movie about our industry with the potential to offer a realistic warts and all portrayal of what we do day to day.
One imagines how this might have played out with someone like the young Sam Raimi at the helm - a director who would play up the absurd comedy of the plot’s increasingly gruesome action, allowing viewers to enjoy Roger’s torment even as the mechanics of a chase film invest us in his survival.Īs it plays here, the movie’s eventual effort to make all right in Roger’s world is neither believable nor satisfying, but it isn’t so off-key as to spoil the silly kicks that precede it.As I finish my gruelling day job of headhunting, I like to unwind by watching movies about headhunting. So Tyldum has a problem when he expects us to start rooting for his survival. Ice-eyed and sporting a helmet of overlong blonde hair, Hennie sells Roger’s self-satisfaction so well in the film’s opening scenes that we ache for his comeuppance. The cat-and-mouse action starts early and lasts for most of the film, missing the opportunity to build the threat slowly, but what Headhunters lacks in mystery it makes up for in extreme scenarios: Midway through, Roger hides from a bloodthirsty hound by sinking into an outhouse’s muck, and that’s arguably not even the most disgusting thing that happens to him. The movie quickly diverts us when Clas, whose career in GPS technology dates to his experience as a military special-forces tracker, decides he needs to kill Roger. The film paints Roger as such a smooth operator, all catsuits and Swiss timing, that the way his troubles begin - he stops in the midst of stealing a Rubens from hunky tycoon Clas ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to call his wife, thus learning that she’s having an affair with said hunk - is a contrivance we almost can’t swallow. He betrays everyone, in fact: His career as a headhunter is just a ruse for him to win the trust of wealthy executives, learn about their assets and habits, and schedule appointments for them with other clients, during which he can rob their homes. The chase-heavy Norwegian crime flick is twisty enough to please many arthouse patrons, though some will be rolling their eyes by the end.Īksel Hennie plays Roger, a preening corporate middleman who would be despicable even if he weren’t cheating on the wife he doesn’t deserve. Thoroughly ludicrous but hardly unentertaining, Headhunters could have benefitted from a more gut-level approach than Morten Tyldum‘s arch self-seriousness, which flirts once or twice with American Psycho-like irony but never really goes there.
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