In the past few decades, Human Resource Management is becoming more important witihnin businesses, not only economically, but also in other areas of natural and social sciences. The development of technology, business and globalization itself has led to increasing importance of intellectual capital. The company's business depends largely on the quality of the human resource management. The role of human capital and investing in it is of great importance for any modern business, because it is people, their knowledge and skills which are the most important resource of any organization, and therefore to them the attention and the interest needs to be shown.The development of personnel, their capabilities, resources and motivation have become the most important factor of competitiveness, and therefore the most important factor of development of any organization. Searching the web sources, scientific articles and books related to the given topic, the paper will examine current research on headhunting in general, its importance for the companies, and the representation of headhunting in Croatian companies.