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. 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.
What you’ll learn
Make Hiring Your Superpower. Learn the Talent Algorithm, a proven system for hiring top talent, avoiding mistakes, and scaling yourself.
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
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 etc
Who this course is for
A founder or business owner assembling your core team and hungry for a proven system to make game-changing hires with confidence
A VC/PE investor, talent partner, or portfolio operator looking to elevate talent judgment, and back only top-tier teams
A Head of Talent or hiring manager seeking to build company-wide interviewing standards, very capable and committed teams of high performers
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
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
Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 1
Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 2
Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 3
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 / week
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