Hiring Mastery
Jordan Burton
High-Stakes Exec Assessment | ex-ghSMART
Matthew Walsh
Interview & Hiring Systems | ex-Palantir
Measure Right. Hire Once.
Most leaders will make 50+ hiring decisions in their career. Get half of them wrong—which studies show is average—and you'll spend years managing the consequences: the underperformer you can't quite fire, the team that quietly resents them, and the search you have to run all over again.
The ability to assess talent with precision is the highest-leverage skill in business. And almost nobody has been trained to do it.
That's why we founded Talgo—and over the past decade have trained thousands of executives, investors, and hiring leaders at Sequoia, THL, Palantir, and 150+ other top firms. Now we've distilled that methodology into this immersive three-session workshop. You will leave a fundamentally different judge of talent.
You'll emerge with:
A repeatable system for identifying top talent in any role
The ability to cut through polished candidates and get to the truth
Hiring accuracy that compounds across every role you fill for the rest of your career
Plus 6 months of access to Talgo On Demand—annotated interview demos and coaching breakdowns used by top firms.
This isn't HR fluff. It's how you stop making expensive hiring mistakes and start building the team you actually need to win.
What you’ll learn
The Talent Algorithm—used by Sequoia, THL, Anduril, and 150+ elite investors and high-growth companies to hire top talent.
Create a punchy, well-calibrated Target that drives every step of the hiring process
Get aligned across stakeholders, and eliminate vague, misaligned expectations.
Cut bias and chaos with a structured process that scales as you grow.
Build rapport quickly with candidates and references to get to the truth.
Ask sharper questions that surface predictive signals—not polished stories
Deliver a candidate experience that differentially attracts top performers
Use Talgo’s battle-tested screening tools to avoid wasting time on clear mismatches
Use a divide-and-conquer interview design to generate better signal, faster.
Create a scalable “hiring machine” across your entire organization
Follow a repeatable decision process that outperforms gut feel
Spot signal vs. noise—and make bold, confident calls
Reduce groupthink and raise the hiring bar across your team
Leverage psychological techniques that inspire and elevate candidate commitment
Generate pull from top talent—without chasing, begging, or overpaying
Show (don’t tell) candidates what makes your team compelling
Who this course is for
A founder or early-stage leader making critical hires without a structured process—and tired of costly gut-feel decisions
A VC/PE investor or talent partner assessing leadership teams and raising the hiring bar across your portfolio
A Head of Talent or senior hiring leader looking to raise your org's hiring bar, eliminate inconsistency, and build a system that scales
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Jordan Burton & Matthew Walsh in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Full access to all course recordings, materials, the complete Talgo toolkit: Target templates, interview scorecards, reference call guides, and decision frameworks, ready to deploy on your next hire.
Community of peers
Join a cohort of founders, VC/PE talent partners, and senior hiring leaders. The mix of perspectives makes the practice exercises sharper and the peer network lasting.
Hands-On Practice
Each session includes live pair-up exercises where you practice interviewing, calibrating, and debriefing with fellow students. This is consistently rated the most valuable part of the program.
6 Months of Talgo On Demand
Full access to our self-paced video library: 20+ annotated interviews, reference call breakdowns, and coaching walkthroughs used by top firms. Go as deep as you want, at your own pace.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.
Course syllabus
3 live sessions • 9 lessons
Week 1
May
19
Session 1
Tue 5/193:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)May
20
Session 2
Wed 5/203:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)May
21
Session 3
Thu 5/213:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Session 1: Define the Role, Find the People, Ask the Right Questions
Session 2: Screen with Precision, Probe What Matters, Divide and Conquer
Session 3: The Deep Dive, Power References, and The Decision
Free resource
Conduct Interviews Like A Pro
The truth about good and bad interview questions
Questions are not created equal: most produce zero predictive data. Learn the principles behind what to ask and why.
Special tactics for time managment
99% of interviewers are wasting VAST amounts of time. Learn how to maximize your time with the candidate.
The most effective way to connect with a candidate
Establish a superior connection via rapport. You'll get better data *and* have an unfair selling edge. We show you how.
Schedule
Live sessions
6 hrs
Three live sessions over three days (May 19–21), approximately 2 hours each. Attend live for the pair-up practice exercises—consistently rated the most valuable part of the program. All sessions recorded if you need to catch up.
Tue, May 19
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, May 20
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, May 21
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Testimonials
- “The training was awesome. Super concrete, actionable material at just the right level of my generality. After the first session, I immediately asked other senior members of my team to sign up.”
Kevin C.
CEO, Ossium Health - “I personally have seen the new tools and procedures greatly streamline the entire recruiting practice. We move faster and get it right more often.”
John K.
CEO, Apartment List - “We’ve been able to attract and hire amazingly high-caliber talent that wouldn’t normally work at an early stage startup. And we avoided some mis-hires that we would have made with a less rigorous process.”
Kai K.
CEO, Biofire - “I strongly recommend working with them! We have a more structured process, we are making stronger hires and keeping our bar high as we scale.”
Jennifer K.
Head of Talent Acquisition, Twilio - "I've been in talent acquisition for 35 years, and I’ve never seen anything quite like the Talgo interviewer training. Definitely a cut above, especially for a sophisticated, fast-paced audience."
Erin Peterson
Head of Talent, Growth Team, Great Hill Partners - "Single best training I have ever attended in my life. Hats off for running an amazing business. Will certainly send along your website to a few friends/colleagues. Worth every penny. I don't understand how someone would responsibly run a startup without this."
Samuel Baker
Director of Product, Underdog Fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
$1,900
USD