The difference between Whispered and a career coach

Whispered paid members can collaborate with our team.

• We focus on accelerating your search.   The more you work out-loud in our community the more we can help with advice and tips

• Premium members can also chat live for scheduled search strategy sessions.

The service whispered provides is different from - and complimentary to - a coach in several ways:

• Nature of the Service: Coaches work closely with you on a personal basis to think through your career strategy. Whispered focuses on helping people with their career journey with tactics, information, introductions and targeted advice.  

• Medium:  Coaching is typically via scheduled calls.  Whispered's team have day-jobs so our advice is typically async / via loom and targeted at key moments in your search.

• Pricing Model: Coaches charge by time (great coaches often are in the $400+ per hour range). Whispered' model charges a one-time fee for unlimited access to our resources, tools, strategies and community. 

• Outcome: Coaches help people process / cope / improve how they manage / refine what is important to them in life…. Whispered is focused on helping people at critical career junctures.

• Domain Expertise:  Coaches can help you better handle the situation but often can’t get deep into helping you find your next role. Whispered focuses on a narrow domain (senior leaders in technology) and we know this domain well.

• Approach: Coaches focus on guiding you to figure out things yourself and understand them deeply internally. Whispered gives more directed, tactical advice from our experience.

• Style:  Coaches are supportive and nurturing.  Whispered's role is to share blunt direct feedback