How do I ask someone for a referral?

Choose one specific job, find people at the company who share your history, such as a former workplace or your college, and send a short message: the role, one line of proof from your work, and a question or the ask. Follow up once after about three days. Insider Path finds these people and drafts the messages for every job on ASAI.

How do I find the hiring manager for a job?

Look among the company's people for leadership titles in the role's function, such as engineering manager, engineering director, technical lead or head of engineering. Insider Path finds them as “Possible hiring team” for every job whose employer is known.

How do I find recruiters at a specific company?

Look for people at the company with recruiter, talent acquisition or recruitment in their title. Insider Path finds them for every job whose employer is known, next to your former colleagues and alumni there.

Does ASAI message people for me?

No. ASAI drafts the first message and follow-up; you choose the person, edit the draft and send it yourself.

Is Insider Path free?

Insider Path comes with the 60-Day Pass and works on every job. With a free account you see which of your workplaces and colleges it would use for a job.

Insider Path

Find who can refer you, for the exact job you want

A referral starts with the right person. Insider Path reads your own history, the places you worked and studied, and finds the people at the company who share it, along with its recruiters and likely hiring team. Then it drafts your first message and follow-up from your resume.

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Insider Path comes with the 60-Day Pass, on every job. Nothing is ever sent on your behalf.

Sample · real ASAI output for the example job, Senior Backend Engineer at Spanwise

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

Spanwise · Bengaluru · Insider Path

Sample

People you share history with

KitebirdYou worked here
FlipkartYou worked here
Tessellate LabsYou worked here
National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliYou studied here

More people at Spanwise

Recruiters
Possible hiring team
All employees

Draft messages · People at Spanwise who worked at Flipkart

First message

Hi, my background includes work at Flipkart. I am currently exploring the Senior Backend Engineer, Platform role at Spanwise. Given my 7+ years of experience in backend systems, I would appreciate your perspective on the hiring team and the technical challenges they are prioritizing. Would you be open to a 15-minute chat to share your advice?

Follow-up (send ~3 days later if no reply)

Hi, I am following up on my previous message regarding the Senior Backend Engineer, Platform role at Spanwise. With my background in Go and Kubernetes, I am very interested in the work being done there. If you have 15 minutes to share your perspective on the team, I would appreciate it.

Nothing is ever sent on your behalf.

Referred applicants are more than 30 times as likely to get an offer. (Ashby Talent Trends, offer rate by source, Q4 2024)

How it works

From one job to the people who can tell you about it

It starts from your history
Every company you worked at and every college you studied at becomes a path: people at this company who were there too.
It finds the people
People at the company from each of your past workplaces and colleges, plus its recruiters, its likely hiring team and everyone who works there, all in one place.
It drafts your message
A first message and a follow-up for about three days later, written from your resume, for a question about the role, career advice or a referral.
It keeps track
Save the people you plan to contact, mark who you messaged and who replied, and see who is due a follow-up in your tracker.

How to ask for a referral

Whether you use Insider Path or not, the requests that get answered tend to share a shape:

Pick one job first. A request for “any openings” gives the other person work to do.
Start with people who share your history: a former company or your college. You have something in common before you say a word.
Ask a question before you ask for a referral. Two questions about how the team works is an easy yes.
Keep it short: the role, one line of proof from your work, and the ask.
Follow up once, about three days later, and then let it go.

It only looks when it knows the real employer

When a job is posted by a staffing agency and the real employer is unclear, Insider Path does not guess. It shows no one rather than point you at the wrong company's people.

You stay in control

ASAI never contacts anyone for you. You choose the person, edit the draft and send it yourself.

One Pass opens all four tools

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Questions people ask

How do I ask someone for a referral?: Choose one specific job, find people at the company who share your history, such as a former workplace or your college, and send a short message: the role, one line of proof from your work, and a question or the ask. Follow up once after about three days. Insider Path finds these people and drafts the messages for every job on ASAI.
How do I find the hiring manager for a job?: Look among the company's people for leadership titles in the role's function, such as engineering manager, engineering director, technical lead or head of engineering. Insider Path finds them as “Possible hiring team” for every job whose employer is known.
How do I find recruiters at a specific company?: Look for people at the company with recruiter, talent acquisition or recruitment in their title. Insider Path finds them for every job whose employer is known, next to your former colleagues and alumni there.
Does ASAI message people for me?: No. ASAI drafts the first message and follow-up; you choose the person, edit the draft and send it yourself.
Is Insider Path free?: Insider Path comes with the 60-Day Pass and works on every job. With a free account you see which of your workplaces and colleges it would use for a job.

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