About Recruiting Leadership Labs

Recruiting Leadership Labs are one or two-day in-person workshops 100% focused on helping corporate recruiting leaders win.

We offer six different Recruiting Leadership Labs:

  • Lab 1:  Strategy and Engaging Executives
  • Lab 2:  Building a Culture of Recruiting and Driving Change
  • Lab 3:  Diversity Recruiting Leadership
  • Lab 4: Driving Recruiter Performance
  • Lab 5:  Sourcing and Interviewing Strategy Deep Dive
  • Lab 6:  QBRs and Executive Influence

All workshops have identical formats – scenario-based work in small groups, with peer recruitment managers, led by John Vlastelica – but different focus areas. You do not need to attend Lab 1 to attend Lab 2, and Lab 5 is not more advanced than Lab 4. They simply have different topics.

Our workshops run for one or two days, with a dinner at the end of the first day. We also host a virtual follow-up meeting two weeks afterward to check in as a cohort.

Upcoming Labs

Lab 1: Strategy and Engaging Executives

What will you learn?

  • How to create and communicate a recruiting strategy for a hiring ramp or Quarterly Business Review
  • How to influence executives with metrics and storytelling
  • How to build and present a quality business case for additional investments – headcount, technology, training

Plus peer-to-peer networking with 19 other corporate recruiting leaders from across geographies and industries.

Next offered: TBD 2024

Lab 2: Building a Culture of Recruiting and Driving Change

What will you learn?

  • How to create a culture of recruiting with your business
  • How to better leverage hiring managers to be talent champions who help attract, source, select, and sell top talent
  • How to lead and deploy process change to your HMs/across your organization – diversity, interviewing, sourcing/candidate engagement

Plus peer-to-peer networking with 19 other corporate recruiting leaders from across geographies and industries.

Next offered: TBD 

Lab 6: QBRs and Executive Influence

What will you learn?

  • How to build and prepare for a strategic quarterly business review (QBR) with your business executives (VP level leaders).
  • How to leverage talent market insights and historical internal metrics to diagnose root issues, influence execs, and gain their buy in for your strategies.
  • How to build a QBR and plan when optimizing for quality and diversity versus speed and scale.

Plus peer-to-peer networking with 19 other corporate recruiting leaders from across geographies and industries.

Next offered: April 2024

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