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Quarterly Business Reviews & Influencing Executives
Join John Vlastelica and a group of your corporate recruiting leader peers for Cohort 24 of Recruiting Toolbox’s Recruiting Leadership Lab. In this lab, you and your peer TA leaders will learn and share best practices to help you build and deliver effective quarterly business review discussions with execs, leveraging business insights to prioritize, talent insights and internal metrics to influence, and real-world influencing techniques to engage and get buy in for your strategies to help the business hire the talent it needs.
What Will You Learn? Download the agenda.
- How to build and prepare for a strategic, forward-looking 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 recruiting plan that optimizes for quality versus speed and scale.
- How to prepare for the 10 most common questions executives will ask you in a QBR/strategy discussion.
- How to ask strategic questions that give you the insights you need to align your resources to the most important business priorities.
- How to leverage an effective QBR and storytelling framework to maximize your limited time in front of execs.
We usually sell out several months in advance, so registering early is a great way to ensure that you secure your spot. Participation is limited to 20 corporate recruitment managers per leadership lab (no more than two from the same company).
Workshop location: TBD
When? Coming in 2027
Day 1: 8:30am-5:30pm.
Day 2: 8:30am-3:00pm.
Length of Program? 1.75 days in person + two 1-hour follow-up Q&A sessions with John (one ~ two weeks after, and one ~ two months after via Zoom).
Cost: $2,695 + credit card processing fee. How to convince your boss to invest in this.
Why attend? Your peers say our labs are very practical, with hundreds of 5/5 ratings!
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“5/5! Deep subject matter expert, very relevant. I felt like I was able to get in a semester long course in just 1.5 days. The program provided the framework (and confidence) I need to execute a successful QBR.”
Sr Manager, Recruiting, Pfizer
“Practical, real world guidance from his experiences. The templates are the best I’ve seen from a workshop. Loved it all. Already bringing what I learned back to my job.”
TA Leader, Siemens
“5/5! Really enjoyed John’s real life stories and examples that were so relevant to the discussion topic. He was incredibly relatable and really made the room feel understood.”
Manager, Early Career Recruitment, NBC Universal
“5/5! Excellent! I’ve been to many trainings, and this was top notch (no surprise, given John’s reputation). Something I wish I’d attended 3-4 years ago.”
Director, TA, Walmart
“5/5! Dynamic with great material I can apply to my current work.”
Recruiting Manager, Expedia
“Without question, the content is excellent. But John’s delivery of the content and manner of engaging with his audience is next level. Exceeded expectations. I felt as though the content was written for me. I’m particularly grateful for being provided with such practical templates I can lean on now and into the future.”
Director – Talent Acquisition, Verisign
Who Should Attend?
Corporate Recruiting Managers and Directors (only) who lead recruiters and are responsible for recruiting strategy for a significant part of their organization (i.e. they own recruiting for a function, business unit, department, or geography).
Past attendees from our other labs have included recruiting leaders from companies in technology, financial services, retail, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, and more, including Twitter, eBay, Nike, Facebook, Microsoft, GoDaddy, Netflix, IKEA, Starbucks, Visa, KPMG, Square, Booking.com, Nestle, Target, PepsiCo, Little Caesars, Deloitte, KLA Tencor, SAP, Amazon, and LinkedIn.
Leaders have typically led small (3-person+) to large (20-person+) corporate recruiting teams.
Sorry, no vendors or partners to corporate recruiting teams (RPO, services, contingent or third-party recruiters, consultants) allowed. You must manage corporate recruiters to attend. This is not a hands-on “how to recruit” training or “future of talent acquisition” conference. This is 100% focused on helping current TA leaders lead, influence, and drive strategy.
Maximum 20 attendees per workshop, and no more than two recruiting leaders from the same company.
“Extremely content rich. This is not 101 level; this is all 301/401 content.”
– Great Minds
“This training is a must for TA leaders looking to elevate their strategic influence and drive meaningful results.”
– BECU
“I love how direct and practical John gets during the trainings, and how much of his own lived experience as a TA leader and as a consultant he brings in the sessions.”
– TEGNA
“Without question, the content is excellent. But John’s delivery of the content and manner of engaging with his audience is next level. Exceeded expectations. I felt as though the content was written for me. I’m particularly grateful for being provided with such practical templates I can lean on now and into the future.”
– Verisign
“I have so many notes and takeaways! The content was fresh, relevant, relatable, and actionable.”
– Manscape
“John was fantastic. Energetic, insightful, & provided extremely actionable frameworks & methodologies. The most impactful part is that he genuinely understands the pain points/challenges/etc that we each face as he was an operator himself. He comes across in a very real & relatable way as he bring extremely tangible real world examples & advice to the table based on his experience”
– Ellucian
John Vlastelica – Trainer
Managing Director – Recruiting Toolbox
John Vlastelica, CEO of Recruiting Toolbox, is a former head of global TA turned consultant. John has provided training and management consulting services to companies in over 20 countries since founding Recruiting Toolbox in 2005. He’s been hired by world-class organizations like Nike, PepsiCo, Disney, Adidas, Bloomberg, Google, Target, Booking, SAP, LinkedIn, and Salesforce. He’s trained over 500 corporate recruiting leaders from companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, Slack, Nestle, Microsoft, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Coca-Cola, and Uber. And his hiring manager and talent advisor online training has been gets watched a million minutes a month from global leaders like Paramount, Cisco, IBM, and IKEA.
John has shared his expertise with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat presenter at international recruiting conferences, including LinkedIn Talent Connect, where he was three-time #1 rated. He also contributes to our profession as a writer on talent advising, recruiting leadership, hiring manager engagement, and diversity.
John is a part-time critic, part-time optimist who has fallen in love with the problems we face in the talent space and lives to help recruiting leaders win in their jobs.
Length of Program? 1.75 days in person + two 1-hour follow-up Q&A sessions with John (one ~ two weeks after, and one ~ two months after via Zoom).
Cost: $2,695 + credit card processing fee. How to convince your boss to invest in this.
Why attend? Your peers say our labs are very practical, with over 150 5-star reviews!
Our host will provide a list of recommended hotels – please contact Alicia, our event manager, for further information.
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