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Behind the Curtain: How Recruiters Actually See Your Profile

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

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What you'll learn

See your profile thru a recruiter or hiring manager's eyes

See a live view of an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and LinkedIn Recruiter so you can understand the employer POV.

Understand the decision-making process inside an interview

Peek into how hiring managers and teams collaborate on hiring, incl.: scorecards, selection criteria, rankings, and AI.

Turn insight into action: optimize based on your new reality

You'll know better. Learn key tactics to optimize your resume, LinkedIn, interview approach, comms, and more.

Why this topic matters

Most candidates spend their time perfecting a resume or LinkedIn profile without fully understanding how those materials are actually consumed behind the scenes. By learning the internal workflows and decision points, you can finally break free from guesswork. Align your materials to land more interviews and align your interview strategy to get picked for the next round. Intentional steps = offer.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. 10+ yrs building job search + recruiting products

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.

Clients hired at

OpenAI
Stripe
YouTube
Discord
American Express

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Breakthrough Job Search for the Tech Industry
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