How to get recruited by executive search firms?

You must be a presence on the internet, which is where these executive recruiting firms begin their search. After all, any executive worth anything is going to be on the net. Make sure you have a page on Facebook, Linkedn, mabye Twitter as well. It is a good idea to sprinkle about the net some blog postings about yourself in the few months prior to your efforts to get recruited begin. There are online press release companies that are easy to use and can distribute a press release on you to many of the larger search engines. You do not need to let it be obvious that you wrote the press release yourself, of course. Highlight your career contributions and achievements, but also stress your community involvement. Companies like to see philanthropic efforts and community networking: it is the hallmark of an outstanding executive.

Those things addressed, you also must perfect your resume. Check it over for any typos or grammatical errors. Edit it for redundancies, and revise it by updating it to include your most recent career moves, awards, and recognitions. If you have added any new educational or professional training or skills to your collection of talents, then add them to the resume. Be sure to target your resume for the specific industry or field that you wish to work in as an executive. If you are aiming for the pharmaceutical world, make the content of your resume show that you know and understand that world.

If you want to make a career switch and have not been in that particular world before, then play up the skills and accomplishments you have that are important to that world as well as to the one you were last a part of. Be sure to show some experience or knowledge of the human resources, research, sales, finance and other departments that most executives would be expected to have. Lastly, include some of your personal interests and avocational activities that may be of interest to the executive recruiters. Anything unusual in your past, such as cruising down the Amazon, for example, shows a willingness for taking on new challenges. This is a trait sought in executives.