Hiring Mastery

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3 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Make Hiring Your Superpower. Learn the Talent Algorithm—a proven system for hiring top talent, avoiding mistakes, and scaling yourself.

Previously at

Bain & Company
ghSMART
Palantir
Harvard Law School

Course overview

The Most Valuable Skill Nobody Taught You

Are you a founder, investor, or rising leader who wants to build an elite team—and accelerate your trajectory to the next level?


There’s one make-or-break skill that will define your career trajectory more than any other: The ability to assess talent with precision.


And yet, less than 10% of leaders have ever been trained in how to do it.


If you're like the thousands of high-performers we've worked with, you’ve seen how great talent can supercharge your progress—and how hiring mistakes can completely derail it. But until now, there hasn’t been a rigorous, proven system to learn this craft. That’s why we built Hiring Mastery.


We’ll teach you the exact system we've taught to top VCs, PE firms, and tech leaders to assess candidates like a pro—unlocking better hires, faster velocity, and massive upside.


If you join us, you’ll leave with:

‣ A repeatable system for identifying top talent in any role

‣ The confidence to lead high-stakes hiring with executives, investors, or your Board

‣ The skills to dramatically increase your hiring accuracy for the rest of your career


Plus, you’ll get 6 months of access to Talgo On Demand—our full library of video walkthroughs, annotated interview demos, and coaching breakdowns used by top firms.


This isn’t HR fluff. It’s how you avoid years of costly hiring mistakes—and start building the team you actually need to win.

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

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A founder or business owner assembling your core team and hungry for a proven system to make game-changing hires with confidence

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A VC/PE investor, talent partner, or portfolio operator looking to elevate talent judgment—and back only top-tier teams

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A hiring manager seeking to build extraordinarily capable and committed teams of high performers

What You’ll Walk Away With

1. Define Success and Fit with Clarity and Precision

  • 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.

2. Interview and Reference Like a Pro (And Get Real Data)

  • 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

3. Run a Tight, Efficient Process

  • 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

4. Make Smarter, Bias-Resistant Hiring Calls

• 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

5. Differentially Attract—and Close—High Performers

• 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

6. Accelerate Growth with Ongoing Support

  • Unlimited access to the course materials and recordings
  • Plus, 6 months of access to Talgo On Demand, our comprehensive, self-paced video library of annotated interviews, reference calls, and coaching breakdowns

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Jordan Burton & Matt Walsh in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 23—Sep 25

    Role Definition, Sourcing & Interviewing Fundamentals

    • Sep

      23

      Session 1

      Tue 9/233:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Screening, Technical/Problem Solving and Competency-Specific "Facet" Interviews

    • Sep

      24

      Session 2

      Wed 9/243:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    The Deep Dive, Power References, and Decision-Making

    • Sep

      25

      Session 3

      Thu 9/253:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Post-course

    Talgo On Demand: Talgo Essentials

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    Talgo On Demand: Creating a Target

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    Talgo On Demand: Sourcing Top Performers

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    Talgo On Demand: Prospector Mastery (Screening)

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    Talgo On Demand: Deep Diver Mastery (Career Review)

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    Talgo On Demand: Facet (Specialized) Interviews

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    Talgo On Demand: Power References

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    Talgo On Demand: Data, Decisions & Process

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    Talgo On Demand: Selling

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What students are saying

We Train Some of the Best

We Train Some of the Best

Additional Testimonials From Leaders

        “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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Samuel Baker

Director of Product, Underdog Fantasy

Meet Your Instructors

Jordan Burton

Jordan Burton

Co-Founder

Jordan has 17 years of experience as an executive assessor and interviewing trainer, working with top VC/PE investors and high-growth startups to help them hire the best of the best. He has trained over 3,000 executives and investors on hiring and interviewing skills, including Sequoia Capital, TH Lee, Chainlink Labs and over 50 venture-backed startups. He was formerly a Partner at leadership advisory firm ghSMART, a consultant at Bain & Company, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Matt Walsh

Matt Walsh

Co-Founder

Matt is an executive coach, trainer and advisor to high-growth companies. He helps clients implement world-class hiring processes and build their team's skills. He previously worked at Palantir Technologies, leading enterprise deployments in New York, London and Singapore. While there, he led multiple initiatives related to recruiting and interviewing excellence, becoming a top interviewing trainer for the company. He is a (recovering) corporate lawyer with a JD from Harvard Law.

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Hiring Mastery

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$1,900

Dates

Sep 23—25, 2025

Application Deadline

Sep 23, 2025

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