Everything worth asking before you run your read.

A career coach asks you questions to help you find your own answers. Your Network Read tells you what your network looks like to a hiring team, ranks your contacts by who can actually help, and gives you the exact messages to send. One-time $95 instead of $200+ per session. Many people use both: the read gives the coaching something concrete to work with.

LinkedIn Premium shows you who viewed your profile, lets you message strangers (InMail), and surfaces salary data. Your Network Read analyzes the connections you already have and tells you which ones can actually help with your search. Premium is $40/month ongoing. Your Network Read is $95 once.

Julia Levy's insider guide for students, parents, and educators navigating the competitive market for internships and early-career roles. Covers crafting a resume that beats the ATS, building strategic networks, preparing for interviews, and landing impactful opportunities. Written from 25 years in Fortune 500 talent acquisition, including Head of TA at two of them.

Students entering the workforce, recent graduates targeting internships and first jobs, and the parents and educators supporting them. Not the same product as Your Network Read, which is built for professionals with at least 3 years of experience running an active job search.

The book is a written guide for early-career job seekers. It teaches the system. Your Network Read is a data product for professionals with 3+ years of experience who are running an active search. It analyzes your actual LinkedIn network and tells you what to do this week. Different audiences, different formats, same underlying philosophy about how hiring actually works.

From Hi to Hired is available wherever books are sold. You can find it on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTPSNL42.

A 0-to-100 measure of whether your professional network can actually support your next move, built from five signals: Decision-Maker Access, Relationship Recency, Industry Coverage, Level Match, and Advocacy. Your score comes with a tier (At Risk, Developing, Positioned, or Ready) and, more importantly, the map behind the number: which signals are strong, which are quietly costing you interviews, and who to contact first. Developed by Julia Levy from 25 years in Fortune 500 talent acquisition.

No, but you get a discount code for future report runs after purchase.

Most job searches stall for one of three reasons. You're applying to roles where you have no warm path in (the Easy Apply trap). Your network exists but you've lost track of who can actually help you (Network-Rich, Insight-Poor). Or you're positioned for the wrong level on LinkedIn so the right people don't see you. Your Network Read diagnoses which of these is happening to you specifically and tells you what to do about it.

Network-led job searches start with knowing who in your existing network can actually open a door. That means identifying contacts at your target companies, ranking them by seniority and function fit, and prioritizing the ones with reply probability. Your Network Read does this analysis on your LinkedIn data and gives you a ranked list with named contacts and outreach templates ready to send.

After 3+ months of low response, the issue usually isn't the resume. Cold applications land in the pile that gets read last: hiring teams work internal candidates and referred candidates first, because trust is faster to evaluate than a stack of strangers. The fix is changing which pile you land in. Your Network Read shows which of your existing connections can give you a warm path into your target companies.

The first week after a layoff is for two things. Notify your network you're open (a simple LinkedIn post and direct DMs to your closest contacts). And map your network strategically before you start cold outreach. Your Network Read maps your network for you and tells you exactly who to message first, what to say, and which target companies you already have a path into.

Overqualified usually means your resume is doing too much and your network outreach is targeting too high. Your Network Read identifies the "moderately weak ties" in your network. Mid-level contacts at your target companies who can vouch for you directly to hiring managers, bypassing the resume filter that's flagging you as a retention risk.

No. Your LinkedIn data export shows your connections' current employers only. It doesn't include employment history, theirs or yours. If someone you used to work with is now at a target company, the report will surface them as a connection there. It won't know the shared history. That context is yours to bring to the outreach.

No. It gives a data-driven read of your network and a specific plan to act on; outcomes depend on your actions, market, and other factors it doesn't control. What is guaranteed: 14-day satisfaction. If the read doesn't show you something you can act on, reply to your receipt and say so, and you'll get your money back.

It reads your LinkedIn data only. It can't see your text messages, WhatsApp, email history, or relationships you maintain entirely off LinkedIn. When the report says a contact is warm or dormant, that's a LinkedIn read, not a read of your whole relationship with that person. Some of your strongest relationships may live off-platform. Use your judgment on those.

Because hiring runs on trust before it runs on applications. Internal candidates and referred candidates get read first, and a referred candidate converts at roughly 10x a cold applicant. That is not a secret market, it is a sorting order, and the fix is knowing who in your network would put your name in the room.

Referrals work at two points: before a role is posted, when a manager mentions a need to someone trusted, and after, when a recruiter asks their network. Either way, a referred candidate converts at roughly 10 times the rate of a cold applicant, which matches what Julia watched across 25 years in Fortune 500 talent acquisition, including Head of TA at two of them. Your Network Read identifies who in your network can credibly make that introduction.

The research on this is clear. A 2022 study published in Science (Rajkumar et al.) analyzed roughly 20 million LinkedIn members and found that moderately weak ties (people you know but don't interact with regularly) have a greater effect on job mobility than your closest connections. The people most likely to help you find your next role are the ones you've drifted from, not the ones you talk to every week. The challenge is identifying which of those hundreds of dormant connections are now at the right companies, in the right roles, with the right signal to reach out. That is exactly what Your Network Read surfaces: the specific contacts worth reactivating, ranked by warmth and positioned against your actual target companies.

LinkedIn is most valuable as a record of every professional relationship built across a career, not as a job board. Your Network Read scores that network across five signals and surfaces the specific contacts and moves that match your current search targets.

That's the most common place a job search stalls, more common than not knowing who. A willing contact and a blank message box. Your read writes the first message for each person it recommends, based on the actual relationship you have with them, in plain words that sound like you. You'll edit it, send it, and it won't feel weird, because it isn't generic.

It can, when you lead with the ask. That fear is legitimate, the person on the other end really does notice. The fix is the order of operations: reconnect like a human first, and the read shows you what that looks like for each specific person. Someone you have real history with reads a genuine reconnect as a compliment, not an imposition.

No, and that's deliberate. Nothing goes out unless you send it. The read hands you the names and the drafts; you stay the human in the conversation. Nobody in your network will ever know you ran a read unless you tell them.

Almost certainly, because "I've exhausted my network" usually means "I've asked the same three people twice." Most people have hundreds of connections and have activated a handful. The read maps the whole thing, including the dormant relationships you've stopped seeing, and ranks them by real signal, not by who came to mind first.

No. The read works from who you know, not how often you post. You never need to become a content creator; most of the moves it recommends are one private message at a time.

Your full LinkedIn data export, which you request from LinkedIn settings and receive as a zip file. Plus a short intake about your target level, function, sectors, and target companies. Nothing else.

Your export is parsed on your device; only the extracted data needed for analysis goes to the server and to Anthropic's AI to generate the report. Anthropic doesn't train on it and it is deleted within 7 days. Your report stays available for 7 days through your personal link (also emailed to you), then it's gone, download the PDF to keep it. We never log into your LinkedIn, never contact anyone in your network, and never sell or share your data.

Most reports complete in 10 to 15 minutes after your LinkedIn export is uploaded. Larger networks (10,000+ connections) may take slightly longer. The report renders on screen and downloads as a PDF.

No problem, that's normal: LinkedIn takes up to 24 hours to send the export. Your purchase stays valid for 7 days, and we send instructions for requesting the export and returning to app.yournetworkread.com to pick up where you left off.

No. Your Network Read is built for professionals with 3+ years of experience and at least 300 LinkedIn connections. It calibrates to your target level from Individual Contributor up to C-Suite. The analysis works the same way regardless of where you are in your career.

Yes. The report is built on your network data, and below 300 connections there isn't enough signal to generate a meaningful read. The free quiz gives you a sense of whether your network is ready, and if you're not sure where you stand, email us first.

Two things, plus an optional add-on: the Your Network Read report (full analysis, four findings, Activation Plan with named contacts and specific moves) and the Contact Plan workbook (every named contact from your report pre-loaded into Excel so you can track outreach in one place). You can also add the Relationship Bank Account guide, Julia Levy's framework for building and managing your network, for $29.

Request your LinkedIn data export from LinkedIn Settings, Data Privacy, Get a copy of your data. LinkedIn typically delivers it within 24 hours. Once it arrives, upload the zip file to the app and answer a short set of questions about your search: your target level, function, sectors, and companies. Your report generates in 10 to 15 minutes after upload.

Usually not your resume. Cold applications land in a pile that gets read last, if at all: hiring teams work internal candidates and referrals first, because trust is faster to evaluate than a stack of strangers. One job seeker who tracked 200 applications found warm intros converted at 30 percent while one-click applications converted at zero. The fix isn't applying harder, it's changing which pile you land in, and that runs through people who already know you.

Don't lead with the ask. Open with the genuine reconnect: name a specific shared memory or piece of work, ask how they're doing and mean it, and let the job search come up second, honestly, without a request attached. People you have real history with are usually glad to hear from you; what lands badly is a bare "do you know of any openings" after years of silence. If they can help, most will offer before you ask.

Make the ask small, specific, and easy to decline. Not "can you refer me," but "I'm applying for the X role on your team's page, would you be comfortable putting my name in? Totally fine if not." Before any of that: reconnect first, offer context they can forward in two sentences, and only ask people who have actually seen your work. Referrals from people who can vouch for you convert; referral requests from near-strangers get ignored.

Yes, and it's the most underused move in the search. You don't need an announcement post. You need the people who already like you to know, one conversation at a time, so their eyes are working for you. Job seekers who mention their search honestly whenever it comes up routinely report unsolicited leads, contacts, and referrals.