14 Tactics to Get
Yourself Headhunted

At senior levels, competitive interview processes are almost always a sign of lost leverage. Executives who are forced into reactive job searches typically trade long-term trajectory for short-term necessity.

Senior leaders are headhunted when hiring decision-makers already understand their value, trust their judgment, and view them as a low-risk, high-impact hire.

At the executive level, outreach happens when a candidate is already perceived as a category expert—not when they submit a résumé. Headhunters are not searching databases. They are validating shortlists of people they already know—or have been told they should know.