Start with Your Network. Accelerate with Whispered.
Whispered has built a network of executives who help connect each other to roles
As you get more senior, applying online through roles doesn’t work:
- Roles at senior levels aren’t posted
- AI applications are over-whelming recruiting teams
To really excel in finding your next senior role, you need to use your network. Here are some playbooks you can put into action right away. Learn how to:
- Help others and grow your network
- Get clarity in what you want before you start reaching out to your network
- Be clear in communicating your search to your network
- Use your network to get into companies / roles through the backdoor
- Keep your network updated throughout your search
- Build your brand through writing, advising and podcast guesting
The Limits of your network
When you start a search, you’ll get a great initial response from your network. But at some point, you will likely find that it is:
- Hard to keep tapping the same people again and again
- That your network can’t get you in to all your target roles/companies
The power of the Whispered Network™️
This is why we built the Whispered Network™️ - a network of top executives who help connect each other. The Whispered Network™️ helps executives:
- Connect with other top execs who are givers
- Share their (LinkedIn, Contact and Email) networks via the Swarm
- Find the best introduction paths to companies and roles
Backdoor connections are the secret to the hidden job market. See the video below to learn how Whispered Pro members can:
- Find members who can connect them to a specific contact
- Find all connections at companies on their target list
- Discover the best introduction paths and strength of those connections
- Request introductions
Other ways to leverage the Whispered Network™️
💡 Another powerful way to use the Whispered Network™️ is to 'whisper' about you once you have gotten the interview. Having another top executive message the hiring manager "Heard you are interviewing XX. I've been really impressed with them." can help you stand out and accelerate your candidacy.
In addition to networking into companies, we know how important it is to get networked into roles you find out about quickly. So we have automated this entire process. When a role is posted to Whispered we instantly:
- Find the Hiring Manager: We use AI agents (we love Scalestack for this) to determine the most likely hiring manager
- Find the best intro paths: We use the Swarm API to generate the two members with the strongest connection to the hiring manager
Other network tools we recommend
If you aren't a Whispered Pro member we still love to suggest tools that can help you leverage your network in your search. A few we like include:
- Happenstance allows you to share networks with other connections
- WarmerJobs enables you to see posted roles where your network has connections and capitalize quickly on those