Behind the Scenes: Understand the Hiring Process, Get Hired

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Behind the Scenes: Understand the Hiring Process, Get Hired

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

What you'll learn

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the tools holding you back

We’ll tour an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and LI Recruiter, giving you intel on how to optimize for these tools.

Learn about the decision frameworks used to judge candidates

Peek inside the hiring team's evaluation process, including scorecards, job criteria, rankings, and AI tools

Transform insider knowledge into job search success

Apply proven strategies to stand out in these behind-the-scenes moments and tools, giving you an edge in the process.

Why this topic matters

Most job seekers don't know how to iterate on their job search because most job seekers don't really know how job search works. I'll give you the innards of the recruiting process, from the tools to the typical hiring manager's framework to the ways in which the final decision is made on who to hire. The more you know, the more you can do to take control in this hyper-competitive market.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Helping people reach the height of their ambition.

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Sherveen brings unique insight from all sides of the hiring equation, having built AI-powered recruiting technology and led product development at major startups like Toptal and Stella.

For a majority of his career, he's also been uniquely focused on the candidate side of the equation. He previously founded JobHero, a job search tracker with 100k+ enthusiastic users, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency.

Through Free Agency (backed by prominent investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, Kygo), he now helps job seekers navigate the modern hiring landscape to land top of market roles. Since 2019, clients of Free Agency have won over $400M in job offers and landed at top companies like OpenAI, Amazon, American Express, Stripe, YouTube, Netflix, and hundreds more.

He has been a product leader at talent marketplaces like Toptal, AI hiring platforms like Stella, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency (backed by investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Resolute Ventures, Kevin Durant, Kygo, and executives + founders from companies like Twitter, MasterClass, and Snapchat).

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