Executive Job Search Strategies

It may be that the aim of your job search is to progress within your existing organization. In this case, you should update your resume to include your achievements to date (please click here to visit our Executive Resume Writing page) and network within your company to find any potential openings.

However, if you have decided that the objective of your job search is to change job there are three main approaches that you should take, which are:

1. Networking
2. Headhunters / Executive job search firms
3. Executive job search Internet sites

1. Networking
Around 75% to 80% of jobs are never advertised, and this is particularly true for executive jobs. These jobs are generally filled through word of mouth or internal appointments. If you are known to be interested in a particular job or organization and a suitable vacancy arises, you are likely to receive a call.

So how do you get yourself known or find these hidden jobs?

One way is through your existing network of contacts that you will have built with ambitious and talented individuals and this can prove invaluable in your executive job search now and in the future. Alternatively, you can sign up for a free Monster Networking Account which aims to help you find the individuals most likely to advance your career.

Another way to find hidden executive jobs as part of your executive job search is to use WorkTree a comprehensive job portal, which is updated daily with new executive jobs as they become available.

2. Headhunters / Executive job search firms
One strategy to use in your executive job search is to make your details available to executive recruiters or headhunters, who then attempt to find a job that matches your stipulated requirements.

To help you with this and save you considerable time, Employment360.com are pleased to recommend the following site that can connect you directly with executive recruiters when you are searching for an executive job.

• ExecutiveAgent offer a well established service that enables you to send your completed resume by email to as many as 1000 executive recruiters in the industry and functional area of your choice.

  All you have to do is define your areas of expertise and the industries that interest you. The whole process can be completed in less than 15 minutes, whereas in the past this took many days to complete.

  The recruiters to be targeted are selected from an email list that is compiled from the Kennedy Information "Directory of Executive Recruiters".

  This Directory has been published since 1971, is updated annually by a dedicated full-time research department and now lists over 5,000 search firms in the US, Canada and Mexico and over 12,800 recruiters. To visit the ExecutiveAgent web site, please click here.

3. Executive Job Search Internet sites
The commercialization of the Internet can make a job search easier if you know where to look. However, as with many things on the Internet, job sites have now proliferated to the extent that it can be difficult to find what you want.

Thankfully, when an organization seeks to fill an executive job, they are likely to identify this as a specific executive job, as they need to receive sufficient high quality, targeted, applications to make the advertising cost worthwhile. It is still possible, however, that many executive jobs are buried in the hundreds of job sites that now exist.

The good news is that a recent development in Internet recruitment has been the arrival of "aggregator" job sites, such as:

• 6FigureJobs If you are looking for a $100k+ position, you can access over 2,000 exclusive job postings from renowned corporate recruiters and executive search firms on the 6figurejobs web site.

• WorkTree.com: Executive Jobs WorkTree.com claims to be "The largest job search portal in the world" and provides access to millions of jobs, including executive jobs, that are sourced from over 50,000 places on the Internet.
• Employment911 Their technology enables you to search over 350 US job sites, which provides access to over 3 million job listings with one search.

As you can see, there are many different ways to put your skills and qualifications to work for you in your executive job search and you should use all of these methods as part of your overall executive job search strategy.

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