Why did you try to go around?

[JambaBamba]

but yours sounds a bit like a headhunter or hybrid.

Technically I'm considered an Executive Recruiter or Headhunter (since I usually work with employed people and head hunt them out of their current companies) but some folks don't like the word headhunter (no clue why - althought it's better than "snake-oil recruiter" that one of my collegues got called - when he called a then client out on HR violations to their employees )

[Geek King]

[...] but some folks don't like the word headhunter (no clue why - althought it's better than "snake-oil recruiter" that one of my collegues got called - when he called a then client out on HR violations to their employees )

From the side that gets headhunted: Headhunter has the connection with trying to lure away professionals who may not be looking at the time. The term is seen in the corperate world as someone who may lure away hard-to-replace, or even irreplaceable, staff. They are even occasionally used as soft corperate sabotage, if someone finds out the loss of a key member could cause big trouble.

I will not get into the simple fact that Higher pay would make that harder.

It doesn't sound like that is what you do, but the term does mean different things to folks running the business.