Interviewing Essentials
Talent Advisory
Talent Strategy
Advanced Licensed To Hire
Take your hiring and interviewing skills to the next level, by getting even better at creating challenging interviews that motivates top talent to want to work for you.
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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:
Use competency-based questions and situational techniques to assess and evaluate candidates.
Use advanced interview techniques to develop high-quality interview questions, assess generalist and specialist profiles, gauge the candidate's seniority level, and uncover their potential.
Conduct a successful kick-off strategy meeting with your recruiter where you focus on aligning with them, defining the hiring criteria, and building an interviewing plan.
Implement the 5-step process (define/align/assign, screen, interview, feedback, and hiring decision) to create a great interview process.
Missions in this Learning Path
When interviewing candidates, evaluating their competencies or soft skills is a key element to being able to predict their success in your organization. To do this, you must evaluate not just what they do, but how they do it. In this mission, John Vlastelica will show you specific examples of competency-based questions and how to use them. You will also learn the importance of pivoting, how to assess soft skills through situational techniques, and why a culture add is better than a culture fit.
What makes a good interview question? In this mission, John Vlastelica explains the characteristics that determine the quality of interview questions. Learn what makes a good question, a great question, and the best question – and why. You will learn advanced interview techniques to assess generalist and specialist profiles, gauge the candidate's seniority level, and uncover their potential.
The importance of the kick-off meeting for a hiring process is often overlooked, but this meeting plays a crucial role in setting hiring teams up for success. In this mission by John Vlastelica of Recruiting Toolbox, learn how to change up your kick-off strategy meeting with your recruiter to focus on aligning with them, defining the hiring criteria, and building an interviewing plan.
What is the best structure for an interview process? Although this will vary depending on different factors - such as the role you are hiring for – this mission will give you a practical 5 step approach to create a great interview process. John Vlastelica will show you how to align with your interviewing team, the fundamentals of candidate screening, and how to conduct successful onsite and online interviews.
Hiring decisions can be complex, and that's why it's so important to be aligned with your interviewing team and recruiter partners. In this mission by John Vlastelica from Recruiting Toolbox, learn how to role model good risk-taking, build accountability mechanisms, and recalibrate when necessary.
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