I was asked by an engineer about using my contacts to 'get him into' Google, I suggested that he do three things:
1) Make sure he had a LinkedIn presence
2) Create a Github account and put one or more projects in it, preferably written in one of Java, Python, or C++
3) Register with StackOverflow and build up some karma.
Then let the trawler pick you up the next time it goes by :-)