Leadership
Licensed Talent Advisor
Becoming a Talent Advisor is not only about selecting great talent – it’s also about being a consultative and strategic partner to your hiring managers. In this Learning Path, with missions by John Vlastelica and Stacy Zapar, you will learn how to lead hiring conversations and make a big impact on the way you source, interview, select and sell talent.
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Presenters Presented By
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.
Stacy Donovan Zapar
SocialTalent Expert
Stacy Donovan Zapar has a 20 year career recruiting for Fortune 500 tech companies and has led global talent attraction, sourcing, training, and search initiatives for top employers including Zappos, TripAdvisor, Amazon, Best Buy, Booking.com, Walmart, and Netflix.
Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the Learning Path you will be able to:
Develop and execute effective talent acquisition strategies, aligning with hiring managers to improve the sourcing, interviewing, and selection of candidates.
Apply communication and influence techniques to build strong relationships with hiring managers, foster collaboration, and drive high-level talent decisions.
Implement diversity and inclusion strategies in your recruitment process to mitigate bias, promote equal access to job opportunities, and create a more inclusive hiring environment.
Utilize best practices in presentation and facilitation to effectively engage hiring managers, educate them on their role in the hiring process, and maximize the impact of your talent acquisition efforts.
Missions in this Learning Path
Meet John Vlastelica of Recruiting Toolbox and prepare to become a Talent Advisor. Define WDGLL & your new relationship with hiring managers
In this Planning program with John Vlastelica, you'll learn how to build effective strategies that aligns Recruiting and Hiring Managers together, using communication, effective (not restrictive) processes, and plan for speed! You'll see soon that "try harder" is not a strategy. Our strategy starts with leading, and this means we need to show up differently to our interactions with the wider business.
In this program, presented by John Vlastelica, you'll learn the secret sauce to getting hiring managers on board with recruiting, leverage their networks and abilities, as well as building your strategy around market information that enables leaders to make informed decisions.
Interviews are critical in our interactions with candidates, but to get great hires we must have a great strategy. Similarly, when Hiring Managers make decisions on who to hire, strategy comes into play here too. Do we simply sit in, do we facilitate, or do we lead? Learn how to lead like a Talent Advisor, and ensure the best hire is made in every team.
In this program with John Vlastelica, you'll learn how to influence those around you in the business who's actions and capability massively impact your conversion and funnel metrics that are out of your control. Starting with Knowing the Hiring Manager, learn to build relationships, raise the bar on their expectations and diagnose performance issues. Influence through communication, and play the role of Talent Advisor where you lead and influence.
With the power of diversity and inclusion well-known in our organisations, a significant hurdle we still face is how we ensure a fair, unbiased interviewing and hiring process. You play a leading role as Talent Advisor. In this mission, by John Vlastelica of Recruiting Toolbox, learn how you can define and implement the strategy to mitigate bias and have fairer hiring processes, while coaching managers to build a diverse and inclusive organisation.
As a recruiter, you need to be strategic and have consultative conversations with Hiring Managers. But what does this mean? John Vlastelica shares critical conversations every recruiter needs to have to deliver a Talent Advisor experience. Learn how to win at having critical conversations by diagnosing the root issue and engaging Hiring Managers.
In this program, presented by the amazing Stacy Zapar of Tenfold, learn practical steps and recruiting hacks to recruit like a boss. Get around challenges with internal and external relationships, creating a better candidate experience overall and deliver on your targets and goals around hiring when ultimately you're not the blocker!
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