In this information age, being headhunted is getting easier as the opportunities and chances of your skills being exposed to others are much more. Getting headhunted is not about merely showing your resumes and your accomplishments. It's about getting yourself known to relevant people that makes the difference. Below are just a few areas where you can get others to know you more professionally:
1. Participate in relevant trade exhibitions
This is probably one of the most effective and easy way for exposing yourself to people within your trade or industry. Don't just go to trade exhibitions with the sole objective of understanding the latest technology or products. Talk to as many people as you can. The focus is to let more relevant trade companies know who you are. And remember to exchange your business cards for future correspondance.
2. Join the School Alumni
School Alumnis are as good as trade exhibitions because you can get to know people of the same specialised trade/area. You can even get yourself more exposure by being one of the alumni committee member. That'll give you more reasons to contact the members.
3. Join social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace & Facebook
It has becoming not a trend, but a way of life for people to engage into cyber social networking. Some headhunters even screen through their candidates through their social networking sites profiles to ascertain whether is he/she the right person. Just make sure your profile is casual and reflects your true personality.
Another thing about such sites is that you can widen your social network easily, and should you need job recommendations, it spreads extremely fast. And such referrals will land yourself much more easier into your desired job.
4. Join relevant forums
Make sure you put a decent profile and state your interests. Read through the topics that are relevant to your desired job, and make comments on it. This will allow people to get to know you more, and start to look at you as a professional in your trade.
5. Writing & submitting articles
Writing articles to your local press, magazines will greatly enhance your image as a professional. However, you'll need to know what articles the press and/or magazines will be interested in. So make sure you do some research on what type of articles do they generally publish. Alternatively, you can also submit shorter articles to Ezines like Ezine Articles. They're a huge e-articles directory that have millions of visitors visiting them and searching for relevant articles.
One tip for you: If you can't think of any topics to write to your desired press or magazines, go to Ezine Articles to do your research on the type of topics that generated the most visitors.
6. Create Your Own Blog
Creating your own blog builts credibility, reputation and allows people to "locate" and understand you easier. All you have to do is to get a free blog provider like Blogger or Wordpress, and just follow their instructions. And make sure you update your blog regularly so that your blog can be easily searched by the search engines.
If you're really interested in creating your blog, you should learn some internet marketing techniques to increase your exposure.
Getting headhunted is not an overnight thing. You'll need to build your credentials bit by bit. And if you apply what I've mentioned above, you'll definitely increase your chances of being headhunted by leaps and bounds.
To Your Success,
Allan Heng
1. Participate in relevant trade exhibitions
This is probably one of the most effective and easy way for exposing yourself to people within your trade or industry. Don't just go to trade exhibitions with the sole objective of understanding the latest technology or products. Talk to as many people as you can. The focus is to let more relevant trade companies know who you are. And remember to exchange your business cards for future correspondance.
2. Join the School Alumni
School Alumnis are as good as trade exhibitions because you can get to know people of the same specialised trade/area. You can even get yourself more exposure by being one of the alumni committee member. That'll give you more reasons to contact the members.
3. Join social networking sites like LinkedIn, MySpace & Facebook
It has becoming not a trend, but a way of life for people to engage into cyber social networking. Some headhunters even screen through their candidates through their social networking sites profiles to ascertain whether is he/she the right person. Just make sure your profile is casual and reflects your true personality.
Another thing about such sites is that you can widen your social network easily, and should you need job recommendations, it spreads extremely fast. And such referrals will land yourself much more easier into your desired job.
4. Join relevant forums
Make sure you put a decent profile and state your interests. Read through the topics that are relevant to your desired job, and make comments on it. This will allow people to get to know you more, and start to look at you as a professional in your trade.
5. Writing & submitting articles
Writing articles to your local press, magazines will greatly enhance your image as a professional. However, you'll need to know what articles the press and/or magazines will be interested in. So make sure you do some research on what type of articles do they generally publish. Alternatively, you can also submit shorter articles to Ezines like Ezine Articles. They're a huge e-articles directory that have millions of visitors visiting them and searching for relevant articles.
One tip for you: If you can't think of any topics to write to your desired press or magazines, go to Ezine Articles to do your research on the type of topics that generated the most visitors.
6. Create Your Own Blog
Creating your own blog builts credibility, reputation and allows people to "locate" and understand you easier. All you have to do is to get a free blog provider like Blogger or Wordpress, and just follow their instructions. And make sure you update your blog regularly so that your blog can be easily searched by the search engines.
If you're really interested in creating your blog, you should learn some internet marketing techniques to increase your exposure.
Getting headhunted is not an overnight thing. You'll need to build your credentials bit by bit. And if you apply what I've mentioned above, you'll definitely increase your chances of being headhunted by leaps and bounds.
To Your Success,
Allan Heng
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