Looking now
You have a target list and you want those applications read rather than filtered.
Community
Member to member
Your application arrives with a name attached.
Most senior roles are filled through people rather than portals. Refer Me is the part of the community where members put each other's applications in front of a human.
- Member to member
- No fee
- Inside the community
Why it exists
The queue you're in is the wrong queue
An application through a job board joins a pile. The same application through somebody inside the company gets read.
- A referral gets your CV read by a person, not filtered by a system
- It arrives with context: what you did, and why it fits this team
- For senior roles it is the normal route, not a favour
- It works in both directions — members refer, and get referred
- The referral carries a member's own name, so it stays theirs to give
How it works
Four steps, no fee, no middleman
- 01
Find the role
Openings are shared in the community with context from members who know the team or the company.
- 02
Ask in the open
Post the role and a short pitch: what you do, the closest thing you've done to this, and the number attached to it.
- 03
A member decides
Somebody inside the company chooses to refer you. Nobody is obliged to — that is exactly what keeps a referral worth something.
- 04
You apply with it
Your application goes in with a name attached instead of landing at the bottom of a queue.
The ask
What gets a yes
- “Can you refer me?” with no role and no CV
- A message that could have been sent to anybody
- Asking a stranger before ever giving anything back
- A CV that doesn't match the role you're asking about
- The exact job ad, linked
- Three lines: what you do, your closest result, the number
- A CV already tailored to that ad
- Making it easy for them to say no
What it changes
Not a shortcut — a different door
- Your CV is read by someone who can walk it to the hiring manager
- You find out quickly when a role isn't what the ad says it is
- You build the network you'll need for the role after this one
- Eventually you're on the other side of it, referring someone else
Who it's for
Members, in both directions
Already inside
Your company is hiring and you would rather work with someone a member can vouch for.
Building for later
You aren't applying yet, but this is the network you'll be glad you built when you are.
No placement numbers are published here. When there are outcomes worth counting, they will appear with dates — and not before.
Do the groundwork
The chapters this depends on
A referral ask is a networking message with higher stakes. These two chapters are what make it land.
Copy-ready
Outreach templates, free
Connection notes, referral asks and follow-ups — in English and in Turkish.
LinkedIn & networking
LinkedIn Networking Examples
Real outreach examples that get replies — connection notes, follow-ups and asks.
Open in Notion (opens in a new tab)LinkedIn & networkingNetworking Message Templates (English)
Copy-ready English templates for cold outreach, referral asks and thank-yous.
Open in Notion (opens in a new tab)LinkedIn & networkingNetworking Message Templates (Turkish)
The same battle-tested outreach templates, written natively in Turkish.
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