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Sep 13, 2025
How to work effectively with headhunters to get the role you want?

Wrote to a headhunter but never heard back? - If this sounds relatable, you are doing it wrong or just not enough!

Allow me to let you in on how staffing works - headhunters get hiring mandates from enterprises - essentially, companies and startups looking to hire for specific positions. As headhunters get paid by these companies, they have to maintain razor sharp focus on the roles that are active with them at any given point in time. So, if you reached a headhunter and didn't hear back, it is more likely than not that s/he doesn't have an active role that fits your experience and aspirations. Your profile, in all probability, went in her/his records for something relevant that s/he might be working on in the future. 

Given this, how do you increase your probability of getting a job from the staffing/headhunting world (and it's a big one, with global staffing industry touching US $2 trillion, yes T! with thousands and millions of participants/players)? So, the correct and only way is to build a robust 'top-of-the-funnel' (ah! another jargon). This, in a nutshell, means you need to reach out to multiple relevant headhunters. Very simple statement, but 'multiple' as well as 'relevant' is the catch! How do you find those, reach and follow up with them? 

Well, we have a bad news and a good news in answer to this question. The bad news is if you don't use the Aplus Reach, you will have to do you own very tiring and laborious manual research to find out who are the headhunters in your domain and geography. Not just that, you need to find many of those. That's not done yet, you need to reach out to them independently (say Hi Sir/Ma'am or add no personalization, and your email gets ignored. As Joey would say, your note is a 'moo point'! it's a moo, nobody cares about :). Even that's not enough, you need to follow up politely and strategically (so, until and unless you are Elon Musk, you need to follow up maybe more than once, end of discussion!).

The good news is Aplus exists so that your job search doesn't become another job. We have done/are doing the market research (and most certainly, better than what you can simply because of the information arbitrage i.e. we have more knowledge than individual job seekers by the virtue of being in the industry). We have built/are building a searchable database (the solution for 'multiple relevant' headhunters in seconds). We have automated/are automating reach outs and follow ups so that you are heard, and not end up as 'moos'/spams.

All this and much much more at a meagre cost of INR 1499/- only for a year (a little over 100 bucks a month to get unlimited power to find jobs whenever you want, wherever you want, unbelievable right?). No hidden costs. No ads. No top ups. Easy and Simple.

Do give us a try and give us a shoutout if you feel we have added value in your career search! Till then, we will tirelessly build to create a level playing field for job seekers to access jobs that they never knew existed or thought were beyond reach.

 

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You've gone through an education system that probably never taught you anything about professionalism, logical deconstruction, and comfort with ambiguity. You may have tremendous bookish knowledge, but lacking these three attributes is an immediate invisible red flag that will stop you from getting the job or the promotion you always wanted.

Let's throw some light on the top-5 common mistakes that highlight your lack of these attributes, and what you should be doing instead

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  • Going silent instead of communicating effectively with your stakeholders - it might come as an insight but everyone knows you would evaluate multiple opportunities before chosing one, everyone knows that your decision might be influenced by your loved ones, and everyone is okay with your being unsure, but nobody likes to be left wondering about what might be happening. So, good, bad or ugly, communicate, communicate and communicate! You'll build more relationships that you ever thought, and you never know, one or more of these relationships may turn gold in the times to come.
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