Activate the Network

How to get your colleagues' professional networks mapped into Wintro so candidate matching can run.

The “network” in Wintro is the combined set of your colleagues’ professional connections. Every candidate match is drawn from it, so the wider the coverage of those networks in the platform, the larger your pool of warm, referrable candidates.

Activation can happen through a few different paths. Most organizations end up using a mix — Wintro accepts whichever method works for each colleague, and you don’t have to commit to one up front.

How activation works

Wintro never reads anyone’s LinkedIn data without an explicit sync. Each colleague’s network is linked to Wintro through one of the methods below. Once linked, Wintro keeps the network up to date and uses it to match candidates against every open vacancy automatically.

Sync methods

Network sync can come from two directions: driven by you as the recruiter, or picked by colleagues during their own Wintro sign-up. The two work well together, and most organizations end up using both.

Recruiter-driven: Auto Sync

If you have LinkedIn Premium or LinkedIn Recruiter and the Wintro Companion browser extension installed, Auto Sync maps colleague networks centrally as you browse LinkedIn. This is the most hands-off path — colleagues don’t have to log in to Wintro or take any action of their own.

For Auto Sync to pick up a given colleague’s network, you need to be connected to them on LinkedIn, and their network has to be viewable to their connections. The latter is LinkedIn’s default setting, so unless a colleague has explicitly hidden their connections, this is already true.

Colleague-driven options

When a colleague signs in to Wintro for the first time, they’re walked through a sync step where they pick how their network gets connected. The available options are:

LinkedIn Sync (default, one click) — link their LinkedIn account directly through LinkedIn’s secure login, and Wintro syncs their connections automatically.
Recruiter Sync — the colleague-side equivalent of Auto Sync above. As long as they’re connected to you on LinkedIn with their network viewable to connections, your Auto Sync picks up their network with no further action from them.
Wintro Companion browser extension — install the extension to keep their network synced as they browse LinkedIn.
Manual CSV upload — export their LinkedIn connections and upload the CSV. A fallback for cases where none of the above fit.

Lead with whatever is most hands-off for your setup. Most orgs combine Auto Sync on the recruiter side for centralized coverage with LinkedIn Sync as the default for new joiners.

Opt-in vs opt-out

Network sync runs in opt-out mode by default — when a colleague is added, sync is on and they can opt out if they prefer. You can switch to opt-in mode from your organization settings in Wintro; each colleague then has to actively choose to participate when they join.

Tracking activation

The Team tab shows the network sync status of each colleague — synced, in progress, or not yet started. From here you can:

See which colleagues’ networks aren’t yet mapped
Send reminder invitations to anyone who hasn’t joined yet
Decide where to focus attention first (managers, top connectors, hiring teams)

Driving coverage

A few simple practices have an outsized effect on activation rate:

For each role you’re hiring for, prioritize coverage of the hiring manager and their team — they typically know the strongest candidates.
Pair activation with a focused launch message framed around the colleague benefit (rewards, low effort).
Recognize early winners publicly to set the cultural norm.
Where colleague action is hard to drive, lean on Auto Sync or Recruiter Sync to remove it from the loop.

What’s next?

Once your network is activated, head to Open Vacancies to set up your first vacancy and open it for matching.