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Improving Quality of Hire
In a world where every single TA best practice is a 30 second AI prompt away, knowing TA best practices isn’t enough. Real impact as a TA leader will come from improving candidate quality, hiring decision quality, and overall capabilities of our exec’s teams. And this will require us to be masters at leading change and driving adoption. Not pushing generic best practices, but instead, leveraging root issue diagnosis to identify the blockers to quality and strong relationship and influencing skills to get the business the tailored best practices they need to improve quality.
In this new Recruiting Leadership Lab by John Vlastelica, we’ll dive deep into HOW to:
- Improve quality of hire in a world where employee competency models are evolving (because of AI), candidate cheating and fraud risk is higher, teams are moving back to in-person interviews, and many hiring managers still struggle to make quick, quality hiring decisions.
- How do we lead the work to redefine quality and align our teams on the processes needed to hire the right talent for 2026 and beyond?
- Drive a culture of high hiring manager ownership, where our execs and hiring manager community see their work to get top talent as a core part of their job, not a favor they do for us.
- We know top talent demands highly engaged hiring teams, so how do we lead the work to get hiring managers to invest their limited time on the high ROI work that is needed to get our teams top quality talent?
- Build and sell a segmented TA strategy, where we drive alignment on business and talent priorities with execs and then decide where to leverage AI and automation versus outbound, high touch human recruiting.
- We have limited capacity, so we’re not going to be able to provide the same level of recruiting support to every req. How do we decide where we must invest in higher touch candidate experiences, more outbound recruiting, more compensation approval exceptions, and more talent advising with our busy hiring managers?
This recruiting leadership lab is not about generic management best practices, quality of hire metrics, or “future of recruiting” predictions. Instead, we’ll dive deep into how we identify and get buy-in for the strategies and processes needed to get our teams the highest quality talent. Change leadership is a full contact sport, not something you do via email. So, in this workshop, we’ll leverage small group scenario-based work to share and learn how we tee up the conversations, engage execs, sell the change, get them to help lead the change, and then successfully drive adoption and show our value and impact to the business.
You’ll leave this lab with practical, real-world tested language – plus a workbook, templates, stories, and new peer connections – to help you confidently engage and influence executives and raise the hiring bar across your organization.
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: LinkedIn Sunnyvale Campus, California.
When? June 9-10, 2026.
Day 1: 8:30am-5:30pm + dinner.
Day 2: 8:30am-3:30pm.
Length of Program? 1.75 days in person + one 1-hour follow-up Q&A sessions with John 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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Hear from TA leaders who have joined John’s other Recruiting Leadership Labs
“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
“This was the most beneficial training session I have attended, with each topic providing significant value. It was like a book or movie I didn’t want to end!”
Talent Manager, Expedia Group
“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
“The program was just excellent. I have learnt so much – it’s completely changed the way I view my role/function and the added value that my team can bring to the business. My head hurts a bit… but in a good way!”
Head of Recruitment, Kingsley Napley LLP
“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
“Absolutely essential for any TA leader, it changes your perception of the role and how we interact and impact the business.”
Director, Talent Acquisition EMEA, Aristocrat
“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
“5/5 brilliant training, effective communication, I felt this was the most impactful learning I have ever attended.”
Head of Global TA, Merlin Entertainments
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 adoption of 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.
Workshop location: LinkedIn Sunnyvale Campus, California.
Length of Program? 1.75 days in person + one 1-hour follow-up Q&A sessions with John 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!
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