People sometimes ask "why does Whispered charge candidates?"
We give away our content to help as many people as possible. If you are early in your career, use our free guides to focus your search and apply through the backdoor for posted jobs.
But as you get more senior, roles increasingly aren’t posted. You need access to proprietary databases, career connections, and unposted roles to accelerate your search. The amount we charge candidates allows us to:
Invest our time in building Whispered
Invest in building systems to amplify your search
Purchase data to target your search and give you an information advantage
Spend time helping our members (and giving free advice to others)
We work for candidates like you, rather than the companies evaluating you.
We believe executives need help in their search
Our founders felt the pain of executive job searches and we’ve built the model that each of us would have paid for. We designed Whispered around our beliefs that:
You need data to excel at your job search: When you leave your company you no longer have LinkedIn premium or tools to target companies. We’ve built our company database with multiple premium data sources to help executives find breakout companies and avoid toxic ones.
You can learn from experience: We observe many mistakes executives make in their search from lack of focus to not leveraging recruiters, talent partners and investors. As you work out loud on your search, our team provides guidance at key points.
You search better with others: Searching for your next executive role can be lonely. Whispered has built the community to support your search and we work together to make connections for you.
Connections can accelerate your search: Our founders love connecting people and invest their time to connect you to connect you with others who can accelerate your career.
You get what you pay for: Recruiting firms get paid by companies and don’t work for candidates. Most recruiters help where they can but can rarely coach candidates beyond a single call. Execs don’t have anyone in their corner until Whispered who partners with you to accelerate your search.
Whispered drives value by accelerating your search
Every month you are out of a job or in the wrong job it is costing you.
“Not being in the right role isn’t just an inconvenience—it comes with real costs. There’s a financial toll, as you’re not maximizing your earning potential. Professionally, you miss out on growth opportunities that could set you up for future success. And emotionally, staying in the wrong position can lead to stress, burnout, and a lack of fulfillment.” Ashley Artrip
Whispered’s model helps you:
Position yourself: So many candidates struggle because they don’t have clarity and can’t communicate themselves succinctly. Whispered helps you nail this
Hit the ground running: It can be stressful starting a new job search, particularly if you are in a role today. Whispered helps you gain clarity early, develop a target list of companies, and leverage the right strategy for your situation.
Accelerate your search: Whispered accelerates your search through introductions and unposted roles.
“Seeing a few extra opportunities and get connected faster, that alone is worth the cost of Whispered. If I find a job 2 days faster because of you, at my level, that pays for itself.” Whispered member
Collaborate with other candidates: Whispered’s community allows you to share opportunities and insights on roles with other candidates.
“The power of seeing that other candidates are going after the same roles, offers a unique perspective from the candidate perspective. It allowed me to get deeper understanding of processes I was in.” David Zwerin
Pick the right company: Whispered helps you find breakout companies and get connected to them. Whispered also helps you avoid wasting interview cycles on the wrong companies.
We know that cutting weeks (or months) off of your search, enabling you to identify more opportunities, and helping you find the breakout companies (and avoid the toxic ones), is worth much more than we charge. We hear it consistently from members.
We price our model to align with your success
We only work with “A Candidates” and those we believe we can polish into As and we look for executives that we believe can be successful with our coaching and are looking to invest in their career.
We charge a single one-time fee for Whispered which is good as long as your current search lasts.
We feel this model aligns incentives best because:
We help you do your search better but don’t do your search for you: Candidates who work-out-loud and hustle get huge value from the Whispered model. But because your search success is ultimately up to you, we don’t work on a success fee approach like recruiting firms.
We provide databases and (mostly) async coaching: Whispered provides a complete system for executives looking for their next role. This system isn’t about live coaching - If we sold live coaching, Whispered would be MUCH more expensive.
We help you find a role as fast as possible: Often we help people find jobs with a single introduction (definitely not guaranteed). We don’t want to make more money by charging monthly if your search drags out.
"Not only did I find my role fast with Whispered, but the interview process was also expedited as I was able to use the Whispered network to come in as a trusted referral to the C-level.” Hannah Duncan Wendt
Bonus: We love keeping our alumni involved: Many Whispered alumni are our best contributors and stay involved in the community after their search.
Compare Whispered to….
Whispered is designed to accelerate executives' careers with tactics, databases, introductions, and async advice. This allows us to keep the price low and help as many executives as possible. Compare Whispered to:
Exec/Career Coaching: Coaches can cost upwards of $400-500 / hour to help you get clear and focused on what you want next but they don’t guarantee outcomes either.
Resume Review: Resume review services often cost more than $1,000 for several hours.
Communities: There are lots of communities for job searchers. These provide much-needed support during the search process.
Networking with Recruiters and Talent Partners: Doing this is free and we give you the cheat sheet on how you can engage these valuable nodes. While recruiters and talent partners are valuable, they aren’t working for you but rather the company. Whispered on the other hand, is working to turbo-charges you with connections to these nodes, helping you position yourself well, and data to leverage them.
“Whispered is defining a new category. It's democratizing access to information that previously is private in order to better serve the job seeker, which in turn benefits companies as well.” Leading career advisor
People pay for all of these models but none help you find your next role and accelerate your search. That is what Whispered is designed for … and why we charge.
Comments