How does one get on a headhunter list?

Headhunter spends most of their time researching, interviewing, meeting, and qualifying key players within their specialized industry or niche. A recruiter, based on the number and variety of positions for which they recruit, may search and contact the entire spectrum of people within their niche. It’s of value to them to know and understand what motivates everyone they meet—both candidates and hiring managers.

So back to the question how does one get on a headhunter list ? I share with you some tips which you can try :

• If you are top graduates from reputable universities (eg. Oxford, Havard, MIT, Cambridge etc), you will have better chance. Pro-active headhunter will approach top universities to ensure the cream of the crop of fresh graduates, are given to their client.
• Keep in touch with your former students in the industry, you can find many in facebook.com
• Get your free account at www.linkedin.com and start building your network. Linkedin is a platform for professional in various industries, expertise to get connected.
• Create online accounts at job portal like jobstreet.com and jobsdb.com. The headhunter uses the resume database in these popular portal to source for the talent for jobs they are tasked to fill.
• Submit your resume at pitchyourtalent.com as well!
• Work in a Company which is a market leader in their Industry. For example, if automotive Proton (because Proton has full fledge of car manufacturing in Malaysia). You will starts receiving call as the staff at market leader company normally high sought after.
• Build up a close contact with headhunter as whenever they have task suitable with your experience/qualification, you will have better chances. You can get the list of headhunter here.
• Participate in any forum/conference related with your industry and get connected.
• Don’t forget to meet headhunter during career fair, normally they will take part in such event.
• Do perform in your current job, and this will spread out quickly in the industry.

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