Interviewing Essentials
Talent Advisory
Talent Strategy
Licensed To Hire
Top talent expects capable interviewers and a fair recruitment process. In this Learning Path by John Vlastelica, learn how to get speed, quality and diversity out of your interviewing process, select the right talent for your organization and foster a great candidate experience.
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John Vlastelica
SocialTalent Expert
John Vlastelica draws from over 20 years of recruiting experience, including almost 10 years as a corporate recruiting leader. He was the Head of Recruiting for Expedia, Head of Tech Recruiting for Amazon.com, and a hands-on recruiter and engineering recruiting leader for two start-up divisions of McCaw/AT&T Wireless. In 2005, he started Recruiting Toolbox to help other companies improve their in-house recruiting capabilities.
Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the Learning Path you will be able to:
Hire top talent by conducting effective interviews that are free from biases.
Develop well-defined hiring criteria and write effective interview questions.
Ensure a positive candidate experience and champion diversity and inclusion in your organization.
Motivate top talent by understanding their motivators and presenting compelling job opportunities.
Make evidence-based hiring decisions by conducting debriefs, avoiding false negatives and false positives, and providing written feedback.
Missions in this Learning Path
How we hire impacts who we hire – to get the right 'who' we must be great at the 'how'. Your role as a hiring manager or interviewer is essential to achieve this, because top talent demands engaged and effective interviewing teams. In this mission by John Vlastelica from Recruiting Toolbox, you will learn the foundations of great interviewing: how to define the hiring criteria and evaluation process, using behavioral and situational questions, and the main biases to watch out for.
Having well-defined hiring criteria sets the foundation for a successful hiring process. In this mission by John Vlastelica, learn how to translate the language of a job description into specific hiring criteria, good and bad examples of hiring criteria, and how to use hiring criteria to write great interview questions.
Your role as an interviewer has a direct impact on diversity and inclusion during a hiring process. In this mission by John Vlastelica, you will learn the main types of biases in hiring processes and how to mitigate them, how to champion diversity in your organization, and the key legal aspects you should be aware of when hiring.
Great candidates are interviewing us as much as we are interviewing them. That's why candidate experience is a competitive advantage and is now more important than ever. In this mission by John Vlastelica from Recruiting Toolbox, you will learn the best practices to ensure a positive candidate experience during the interview stage.
What motivates a top performer? Understanding this is the key to getting a great candidate to accept an offer. In this mission by John Vlastelica from Recruiting Toolbox, you will learn how to uncover a candidate's motivators, how to make your opportunity compelling, and the importance of a strong employee value proposition (EVP).
Having fair, objective criteria and evidence-based feedback will ensure you make great hiring decisions. In this mission by John Vlastelica from Recruiting Toolbox, learn how to structure and facilitate a debrief after an interview, what are "false negatives" and "false positives" and how to avoid them, and the case for written feedback.
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