Cohort 4

Learn the secrets of world-class candidate assessment. Install a talent algorithm to consistently "get it right" for mission-critical hires.

Jordan Burton

Co-Founder

Matt Walsh

Interviewing Mastery

Bain & Company

ghSMART

Palantir

Harvard Law School

Are you a founder, investor, or leader eager to elevate your team and bring your vision to life? Your success hinges on mastering one of the most important executive skills that is chronically undertaught: interviewing and assessing candidates. And if you're like the thousands of leaders that we've previously taught, you'd likely agree that your ability to reliably attract, assess and retain top-performing talent is a top-3 skill that you need in order to be successful in your career. And yet less than 10% of business leaders have ever had extensive training in this make-or-break skill. We exist to change that. That's why we started Talgo. We'll show you a reliable system to identify top talent during the interview process—assessing both performance potential and cultural fit. Our course is the premier destination to hone this critical skill and unlock new levels of professional success. We provide a comprehensive, soup-to-nuts training that equips you with the skills to figure out who you should hire for your team. At the heart of this is the ability to conduct a world-class interview and gain access to reliable, predictive data that allows you to massively increase your hiring accuracy. This is one of the most significant time and money needle movers you can possibly invest in for the rest of your career. We've taught thousands of leaders this skill in our private trainings (see our testimonials: https://testimonials.talgo.io/all) and are excited to share this with a broader audience on Maven.

The Biggest Skill Gap in Business Today

A founder or business owner looking to build a high-performing team you can trust.

An investor or VC/PE professional seeking to improve the talent distribution across your portfolio companies.

A leader with high-stakes hiring decisions, or otherwise looking to take control of your professional destiny as a people manager.

You're A Fit For This Program If You're

Immediately Actionable Skills. In 1 Week. 

<ul><li>Translate your business needs into a Target that clarifies and organizes your entire process</li><li>Align on priorities, and improve your decisions with increased accuracy and reduce bias</li><li>Create precise targets that streamline your entire hiring process.</li></ul>

1. Align Hiring with Business Objectives

<ul><li>Build rapport to uncover authentic, relevant data about candidates' capabilities and motivations.</li><li>Master high-impact initial and follow-up questions that get past the spin and unlock predictive data about future job performance.</li></ul>

2. Data-Driven Interview Techniques

<ul><li>Quickly filter out mismatches with a robust screening process ("The Prospector")</li><li>Learn a "divide and conquer" approach to interviewing that results in far deeper and more reliable data and a better candidate experience as well.</li></ul>

3. A Coordinated, Efficient Process

<ul><li>Establish a consistent, repeatable process that prevents biased interviewing (what most people do without realizing it).</li><li>Learn how to make decisions based on reliable data (rather than mere gut impressions)</li><li>Install a process for reducing groupthink in your team's decision-making.</li></ul>

4. Accurate Hiring Decisions. Less Bias.

<ul><li>Engage candidates without appearing pushy or desperate.</li><li>Implement strategies to get the best candidates to enthusiastically accept your offers.</li></ul>

5. Get the Best Candidates to Say "Yes"

Provide a brief description for each module as a way to sell the value of what students will be learning throughout the course.

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Second Module

Third Module

Course syllabus

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Meet Your Instructors

Translate your business objectives and company/team culture into a functional document that you and and your teammates can coordinate a data-driven hiring process around.

Session 1: Defining the Role

Master the art of great rapport that gets better data and increases candidate experience. Learn the fundamentals of what makes for a great initial question and the optimal approach for follow-up questions and time management (includes live practice + coaching).

Session 2: Interview Fundamentals

Learn the five key interview formats that have a place in a data-driven hiring process and the four to avoid. Live practice + coaching on the "Deep Dive" interview, which is the gold standard in executive assessment circles.

Session 3: Interview Mastery—The Deep Dive

Complement a great interview process with References that uncover real data and data-driven decisions that maximize accuracy and minimize bias. Learn processes that combine flexibility, speed, and accuracy. Tailor your selling message to land top performers.

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