''How To Get Headhunted', The Times

"But how to make yourself the hottest thing in town? How to turn yourself into a prospect so irresistible that employers will be tripping over themselves in their haste to win you over? The answer is to catch the eye of that most influential and enigmatic of creatures: the headhunter."

"The telephone is undoubtedly the single most important tool in executive search. Typically a headhunter will ring round his or her contacts asking for six or seven names in a chose field. If the same names keep cropping up, the chances are that they have their man (or woman)."

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