Interviewing Mastery

4.7 (19)

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4 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Learn the secrets of world-class candidate assessment. Install a talent algorithm to consistently "get it right" for mission-critical hires.

Previously at

Bain & Company
ghSMART
Palantir
Harvard Law School

Course overview

The Biggest Skill Gap in Business Today

Are you a founder, investor, or leader eager to elevate your team and bring your vision to life? Your success hinges on mastering one of the most important executive skills that is chronically undertaught: interviewing and assessing candidates.


And if you're like the thousands of leaders that we've previously taught, you'd likely agree that your ability to reliably attract, assess and retain top-performing talent is a top-3 skill that you need in order to be successful in your career. And yet less than 10% of business leaders have ever had extensive training in this make-or-break skill.


We exist to change that. That's why we started Talgo.


We'll show you a reliable system to identify top talent during the interview process—assessing both performance potential and cultural fit. Our course is the premier destination to hone this critical skill and unlock new levels of professional success.


We provide a comprehensive, soup-to-nuts training that equips you with the skills to figure out who you should hire for your team. At the heart of this is the ability to conduct a world-class interview and gain access to reliable, predictive data that allows you to massively increase your hiring accuracy. This is one of the most significant time and money needle movers you can possibly invest in for the rest of your career.


We've taught thousands of leaders this skill in our private trainings (see our testimonials: https://testimonials.talgo.io/all) and are excited to share this with a broader audience on Maven.

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

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A founder or business owner looking to build a high-performing team you can trust.

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An investor or VC/PE professional seeking to improve the talent distribution across your portfolio companies.

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A leader with high-stakes hiring decisions, or otherwise looking to take control of your professional destiny as a people manager.

Immediately Actionable Skills. In 1 Week.

1. Align Hiring with Business Objectives

  • Translate your business needs into a Target that clarifies and organizes your entire process
  • Align on priorities, and improve your decisions with increased accuracy and reduce bias
  • Create precise targets that streamline your entire hiring process.

2. Data-Driven Interview Techniques

  • Build rapport to uncover authentic, relevant data about candidates' capabilities and motivations.
  • Master high-impact initial and follow-up questions that get past the spin and unlock predictive data about future job performance.

3. A Coordinated, Efficient Process

  • Quickly filter out mismatches with a robust screening process ("The Prospector")
  • Learn a "divide and conquer" approach to interviewing that results in far deeper and more reliable data and a better candidate experience as well.

4. Accurate Hiring Decisions. Less Bias.

  • Establish a consistent, repeatable process that prevents biased interviewing (what most people do without realizing it).
  • Learn how to make decisions based on reliable data (rather than mere gut impressions)
  • Install a process for reducing groupthink in your team's decision-making.

5. Get the Best Candidates to Say "Yes"

  • Engage candidates without appearing pushy or desperate.
  • Implement strategies to get the best candidates to enthusiastically accept your offers.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

4 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jan 13—Jan 16

    Interview Fundamentals

    • Jan

      13

      Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 1

      Mon 1/135:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

    Interview Mastery: Prospector

    • Jan

      14

      Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 2

      Tue 1/145:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

    Interview Mastery: Deep Dive

    • Jan

      15

      Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 3

      Wed 1/155:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

    Process and Data-Driven Decisions

    • Jan

      16

      Talgo Hiring Mastery: Session 4

      Thu 1/165:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

4.7 (19 ratings)

What students are saying

We Train Some of the Best

We Train Some of the Best

Reactions to Our Training

        “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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Application Deadline

Jan 10, 2025

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