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If the headhunters have not even been able to get an interview for you then just drop this strategy altogether.
If you have friends working in T1s, then you will easily get to know which teams have openings and then you can send a cold email to (i) the partners or (ii) if the firm offers incentive to its members for bringing in new hires, to the SAs or PAs.
Headhunters proved to be useless for me and a lot of my friends. Not even a single interview landed for 6 months. These other tricks worked for all of us.
If the headhunters did get you few interviews then it might be a YOU problem and maybe you need to brush up on your way of presenting the knowledge. After graduating and getting bombarded with work, we tend to ignore the basic details on the assumption that the partners or PA interviewing us must already know it, which they surely do, and there is no need to go into that much detail. However, they still want you to be as articulate as possible and not miss even a single detail.
Yeh switching sab ke liye easy hota hai na, Laxman?