Start with Your Network. Accelerate with Whispered.

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

• Know 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

• Learn how to 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 hundreds of top executives who help connect each other.  The Whispered Network™️ helps executives:

• Share their (LinkedIn, Contact and Email) networks via the Swarm

• Connect with each other to build the foundation for great introductions

• Find the best introduction paths to companies and roles

• Recognize executives who help others

We have integrated the Whispered Network™️ throughout our platform (with more use cases on the roadmap).   Here are three ways Whispered and our members use the connections today.

Use Case #1:  Capitalizing on backdoors

Backdoor connections are the secret to the Whispered job marketing.  Whispered Pro members can search on the Swarm to:

• 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

💡 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.

Use Case #2:  Finding Intro Paths to roles

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

Whispered members can then use this data to move quicker on roles and to leverage our network

Use Case #3:  Scoring signups

We use AI agents (built by Scalestack) to create a profile in our Executive Directory for each new signup (who requests to be in the directory).  We send our agents to analyze executives LinkedIn profiles and:

• Evaluate the companies they have worked at

• Evaluate the tenure they have had at those companies

• Understand their function, skills and location

Additionally, we use the Swarm to look at every new signup to see which of our current members they know.  We never share the identities of new signups (even with members) but it is great to know which members they may know.

More Use Cases… Coming Soon

We love the power of connections.  Connecting great executives to great companies is why we built Whispered and we are experimenting with more ways we can integrate the Whispered Network™️ into our platform… so stay tuned.