John Vlastelica (Recruiting Toolbox), in partnership with Social Talent, introduces a short training titled "Licensed to Hire" focused on improving how organizations hire by defining clear hiring criteria, using behavioral and situational interview questions, and creating a competitive candidate experience. He emphasizes speed, quality, and diversity, warns that traditional signals (degrees, titles, years) are weak predictors, and previews a simple interviewing framework and team alignment practices. He also cites his team’s reach—training over 10,000 hiring managers/interviewers across 30+ countries—and invites viewers to join the Social Talent platform to learn the methodology.
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To get Top talent in this or any labor market, we have to be great at hiring. Great at defining our hiring criteria and leveraging the best interview questions. In a world where university degrees, years of experience and job titles are not good predictors of success, we have to move fast, make quality hiring decisions and leverage a process that creates an exceptional candidate. Experience as Top talent has many options and is often not very patient. Hi, I'm John Vlastilika from Recruiting Toolbox. I'm partnering with Social Talent to bring you content that will help you hire the right talent for your organization. My team and I have trained over 10,000 hiring managers and interviewers from over 30 countries working with world class companies to help them improve how they interview and select and sell talent with an eye on speed, quality and diversity. Join me to learn a simple but effective interviewing framework for evaluating candidates so that you and your team can predict whether this candidate will be successful at your company, on your team in this role. And of course, good interviewing starts with an interviewing team aligned on what good looks like. So I'll share how you can make sure your interview questions, behavioral and situational questions, including some advanced techniques, are aimed at the right kind of hiring criteria so that you get the depth and breadth of evidence you need to make a quality hiring decision. And we'll talk about the things you can do or things you should avoid to make sure you run a fair, effective process focused on quality, diversity and speed. And then remember, Top Talent is interviewing us as much as we're interviewing them. So we'll also talk about what you can do to make the way you interview a competitive advantage. Join me on the Social Talent platform to become licensed to hire today.