3 Ways to Make the Hiring Manager Love You

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3 Ways to Make the Hiring Manager Love You

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

171 students

What you'll learn

Create Instant Chemistry:

Go beyond typical interview tactics—use subtle psychological cues and conversation anchors to establish instant rapport.

Highlight Exactly What Matters:

Showcase value in the exact terms HMs secretly hope you'll use, turning their internal checklist into your advantage.

Ask Questions That Wow:

Deploy high-impact questions that subtly position you as a rare, strategic thinker who is already envisioning solutions.

Why this topic matters

Winning over the hiring manager goes beyond credentials—it's about creating a powerful first impression, clearly communicating your value, and aligning yourself seamlessly with their needs and goals. This session gives you the proven methods to make an unforgettable impact and transform your interviews into confident, compelling conversations that hiring managers can't resist.

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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