Recruiting Leadership Lab 50

June 24-25, 2025

Preparing Heads of Talent Acquisition for the Biggest Decisions They Need to Make in the Next 18 Months

This invite-only TA leadership event is not a conference or a pure networking event, and there are no sponsor booths. So, what is it?  It’s a hands-on, strategic 1.5 day workshop for senior TA leaders. It’ll combine some fire-starter panels and talks with small group work sprints, so you’ll build out strategies and processes and new models to take back to work. It’s highly interactive – more like a workshop than a conference – built for senior  TA leaders from 2,000+ person sized orgs with 30+ person TA orgs only. You must apply and qualify to register.

Dates and Time: June 24 & 25, 2025.
Day 1: 8:30 am- 4:00 pm. Day 2: 8:30 am- 2:00 pm.

Fee: $3,495. (Prices include breakfasts and lunches on both days)

Discounts may be available if you’re a Recruiting Toolbox client or a customer of one of our sponsors.

Location: World Trade Center Seattle

Who’s Producing This Event?

John Vlastelica – CEO of Recruiting Toolbox – has been hired to train TA leaders at companies like Nike, Slack, Disney, LinkedIn, and Adobe, and has been rated a #1 speaker at most of our industry’s events. John and his team are bringing you this #willnotsuck TA leadership event.

AGENDA

Our agenda is 100% focused on 1) helping you win in your job as a head of TA and 2) preparing you for the big decisions you need to make in the next 18 months. The format of our workshop creates tons of opportunities for you to build as you learn. Participants get workbooks with frameworks and guides to help you design your strategies and better lead your team through the big changes ahead.

For 2025, we’ll build on some of the topics from 2024 that are still hyper-relevant plus add in some deeper dives into a few new areas.

Deep dive into the impact of AI on your org for hourly and salaried roles

  • How will automation impact the size and makeup of my TA org in the next 18 months?
  • What steps in our process should we automate, and what should we keep high-touch human?
  • Will the tech enable hiring manager self service in a way that eliminates the need for traditional recruiter roles?
  • How should I prep for the questions I’m likely to get from budget holders about the costs of my TA org?

Build out your Recruiter 2.0 role using our updated Talent Advisor 2.0 framework (competencies, leveling guidelines, job description, interview guide)

  • How will the role of the recruiter evolve in a world where a lot of the traditional sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing feedback chasing, and approvals are automated?
  • How does our tech stack and hiring manager self service impact what our recruiters have time to focus on, where our recruiters add the most value, and what new expectations we need to set for what a good recruiter looks like in this new world where purely transactional recruiters will not be needed?
  • What are the skills needed to be a great recruiter in the next 18 months, and how much of that looks like traditional recruiting vs more talent advising and talent management?

Design your driving adoption plan for the new tech and role expectations

  • How can I get buy-in and drive adoption within my own TA org, across HR, and with the hiring manager community?
  • How will I know if the changes are sticking?  Is there tech available that can inspect and drive accountability for these needed changes?
  • How can I best leverage insights into cultural differences and influencing styles to best engage executives across geos?
If you attended in 2024, you know that we 1) don’t allow sales people, but 2) hand-pick a few sponsors that have consulting mindsets, and can share what they’ve learned from working across 100s of TA teams. For 2025, we’ll add an optional sponsor-demo hour at the end of Day 2, so you can learn more about what they do in a non-salesy environment, and hear directly from some of their customers about how they’re leveraging their partner/sponsor’s tech to level up their TA functions.
We’re putting the “work” in “workshop.” Get ready to get into the details, build, share, learn, and laugh in a no-fluff but fun day and 1/2 with your peer TA directors and VPs from larger companies. 2024’s workshop got amazing feedback, so expectations are high for 2025.  Join us!

TESTIMONIALS

Managing Director, TA, KPMG

“5/5! Direct application to TA leadership challenges and great insights and recommendations.”

Sr Director, Field TA, Lowe’s

“5/5! More than just theory, this was actionable content.”

Head of Talent Acquisition, Safelite

“5/5! I’ve already taken back a lot of action items and discussion points to my team to continue to evolve as a department.”

VP Global TA, LinkedIn

“5/5! Incredibly rich and content dense–and the conversations and peer learning was great.”

Head of TA, Sam’s Club

“The content is applicable, relevant and unique to other events. The topics discussed are related to real issues we face but solutions shared are unlike those other conferences or events present. The solutions are pragmatic but high level and highly strategic, which we need. It truly helps elevate a leader’s thinking.”

Senior Director, Recruitment, Hilton

“5/5! The workshop offered excellent content, a well-structured format, and valuable opportunities to connect with peers.”

VP Global TA, PepsiCo

“5/5! Discussions with other executives at my table offered forward-thinking ideas on redefining the future of our function and dealing with the challenges of changing the recruiter’s role. This led me to rethink the strategic value that Talent Acquisition brings amid big economic shifts and the rapid spread of AI.”

VP, Talent, Roblox

“5/5! Loved the small group approach with actionable work and takeaways vs. presentations. Plus, the opportunity to build stronger relationships with peers.”

SVP, Talent Acquisition, Paramount

“5/5! Most interactive workshop I’ve attended (no slides, small group activities throughout, opportunity to sidebar and engage in large group discussion). Loved the chance to network with real peers, dealing with many of the same issues and challenges. Topics were very timely and top-of-mind for all in attendance. Good use of outside guests/speakers to hit on relevant issues real thought leadership and practical insights.”

VP, Talent, Box

“5/5! Loved that it was a small, curated group of peer leaders as opposed to the throngs at the big HR conferences. Also really enjoyed learning from peers outside of my own industry (tech). We operate in such a bubble, it was awesome to hear of some of the challenges and innovations being managed to leaders from different industries.”

Global TA Leader, Google

“5/5! I was so inspired and motivated by John’s leadership – he was able to effectively present in a way that showcased his deep expertise in Recruiting and in such a thoughtful approach that resonated with leaders with different goals, various industries and all levels. I was really impressed and still inspired!”

Director, Talent Acquisition, Chipotle

“5/5! John pulled together such a great group of senior leaders. We rarely get valuable time to sit down with peers who are tackling the same issues and thinking through how to lead our organizations and TA teams through change. This workshop allowed critical time we are not often awarded to discuss, ideate and solution together.”

Director, Global TA, AMD

“5/5! I learned actionable items I need for my business case, new ideas on TA structure, and that our org is further along than originally thought.”

Head of Global University Recruiting, Adobe

“5/5! Refreshingly different. I loved the no-slides format, and deep discussions. John, as usual, was full of deep insights, and the sponsors were fantastic, too.”

VP, TA, Compass Group

“5/5! Brilliant- great networking, actionable content, authentic real-world challenge sharing with other leaders. Refreshingly fun, I laughed a lot and left feeling inspired!”

VP Recruitment, Sprout Social

“5/5! Very relevant content. Even the examples for companies/industries different than mine inspired new thinking about how the tech and learnings could be applied.”

Recruiting Leader, Pfizer

“5/5! Left with some great tools that can be used with my TA leadership teams to facilitate strategic conversations related to AI and our TA Org.”

Head of TA, iFood

“5/5! The event was far above others I have attended, both in terms of content selection and participant interaction. The facilitation was also excellent.”

VP, TA, Red Bull

“5/5! Learned about tech, tactics for scale, different ways to approach common problems we all share as senior TA leaders.”

Sr Director, TA Strategy, ServiceNow

“5/5! Perfect length of time, the topics were incredibly relevant and useful, and everything was extremely well organized.”

VP, Recruiting, Twilio

“5/5! Very good! More actionable than most conferences I’ve been to. Really appreciated hearing from my peers and crowd sourcing ideas, what’s worked, what hasn’t. I won’t be attending another big industry conference because this has been a better use of my time!”

Director, TA, Okta

“5/5! Awesome! The most engaging and informative conference I’ve been too. Content was specific to senior TA leaders and actually pertained to the challenges we are all facing in today’s climate. Well done Recruiting Toolbox!!”

Director, Global TA, Electronic Arts

“5/5! I like this smaller intimate setting, hands on working through problem statements and sharing best practices with fellow TA leaders. Key takeaways on AI, perspective on cheating, building business cases.”

Sr Director, Global TA, Micron

“5/5! Exceeded expectations, can apply most of what I learned immediately to my role. John’s humor, anecdotes, business cases, insights, etc. are so very powerful.”

Global Head of TA, Aristocrat

“5/5! Hands down, the best engagement and topics that are relevant to drive the change needed for our businesses.”

VP, TA, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

“5/5! Loved the workbook and workshop format. And building the case for the CFO and the CEO were spot on.”

VP, TA, Oracle

“5/5! I loved that this was leadership specific, so your peers in the room are dealing with similar issues.”

Director, TA, Nordstrom

“5/5! Ideal topics for what I’m working on right now.”

Sr. Director Global TA Programs

VP Talent Acquisition

VP Talent Acquisition

VP, Global Talent Acquisition

APPLICATION TO REGISTER

Apply to register for 2025. This event is for corporate directors or VPs of Talent Acquisition only. You must work in a larger sized org with a 30+ person TA team. You must lead managers, and have responsibility for TA strategy for all or a major function or geography to qualify. This event is not for TA managers from smaller companies, who report into TA directors (we have different events for you!). And sorry, no consultants, vendors, contractors, RPO firms, or search firms will be permitted to register.

LOGISTICS

You must pre-register to attend. No tickets sold onsite.

Dates and Times: Tue June 24, 2025: 8:30am-4:00pm. Wed June 25, 2025: 8:30am-2:00pm. (optional 2:30-3:30pm, 1 hour for attendees to get demos of sponsor products at the end of day 2)

Location Address: World Trade Center Seattle: 2200 Alaskan Wy #410, Seattle, WA 98121, USA.

Distance from SeaTac Airport: 30-60 minutes by car, depending on traffic.

Hotels: We are working on a discounted room block at The Edgewater, an amazing hotel that’s walking distance to our facility. If approved to register, you will receive an email with details on how to reserve based on availability.

Directions and Parking: World Trade Center Seattle

Meals: 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and snacks. You may be asked to join a group of peers with one of our sponsors for dinner on Tuesday/Day 1. This is optional, and will be coordinated in advance, with additional opportunities to join dinners – if available – onsite at the event.

FAQs

This is an invite-only TA leadership workshop, it’s not a conference. It’s also not a pure networking event.  And there are no sponsor booths. This is a hands-on, strategic 1.5 day event for senior TA leaders. It’ll combine some fire-starter panels and talks with small group work sprints, so you’ll build out strategies and processes and new models to take back to work.

We’ve been delivering Recruiting Leadership Lab workshops to corporate TA teams (Nike, Salesforce, Adobe, Bloomberg, Disney, Canva, Slack, Liberty Mutual, LinkedIn) and individual TA managers for over 10 years. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Pinterest, Facebook, Target, Starbucks, EA Games, and Northrop Grumman have been sending their TA managers/directors to be developed for years now.  We’re now offering a value-dense experience for leaders of TA managers (Director/VP level only). It’s called RLL50 because it builds on the experiential learning format of our regular TA manager labs, but is limited to 50 senior leaders.

Yes, our founder created Talent42 (sold to Sourcecon in 2018) and as president of a non-profit put on highly rated conferences for 10 years. Our public Recruiting Leadership Lab workshops have received ridiculously positive feedback from the 20+ cohorts that have participated across the US and Europe over the past 12 years.

John Vlastelica – who’s been hired to train VPs, Directors, and Managers in recruiting for over 10 years, and served as the head of TA for a Fortune 500 firm himself – is personally building out the agenda and MCing the event. He knows heads of TA and directors in TA are crazy busy, and won’t put something together that sucks. It’ll be fun, intense, actionable, and strategic. And participants will have to apply and qualify to attend. John’s team will be working at the event to help keep it engaging and valuable, and his team is made up of former TA Directors at companies like Marriott, KPMG, Yahoo!, and Oakley. John is a 3-time #1 rated speaker at LinkedIn Talent Connect and a former #1 rated speaker at Unleash, events aimed at senior talent leaders

Fee: $3,495 . (Prices include breakfasts and lunches on both days)

We won’t have any booths or sales people selling, but we will have some underwriting assistance to help fund this event.

Flexible registration: If you cannot make the event, you may send another eligible person from your company (corporate director level or higher) to take your place at the same event, with no additional fee; they can use your registration in your place but they must be pre-approved by John Vlastelica. Just email us at least five days before the event, so that we can get them approved and signed up.

Early cancellation: If you cancel at least 45 days before the event, credit card refunds are available for the full ticket price, excluding Eventbrite service and processing fees (as of Dec 1st, 2024, fees are $236.27 for a $3,495 ticket). Note: Eventbrite policy doesn’t let us reimburse you for their fees; they keep those.

If you cancel 21-44 days before the event, you may receive a partial credit card refund of 50% of the ticket price (excluding all Eventbrite service and processing fees).

If you cancel 0-20 days before the event, Recruiting Toolbox will have already ordered your workshop materials and food, and will not have enough time to sell your seat to another person, so you will not be eligible for any refund.

Travel and lodging expenses: Under no circumstances can we reimburse for travel expenses. Regardless of the reason for cancellation, our obligation to you is per the above prorated ticket fee reimbursement. We recommend booking travel and lodging that you can cancel if needed.

Force Majeure: If we must cancel or postpone the event due to Covid-19-related travel issues or major catastrophe or property restrictions (i.e., the conference center hosting our training no longer allows in-person events), we will give you a full refund for the ticket price (excluding Eventbrite fees). In no circumstances will we refund travel-related expenses, so please book travel and lodging that you can cancel if needed.

If you have any questions about these policies, please contact our event manager at alicia@recruitingtoolbox.com.

SPONSORS

We won’t have any sponsor booths or sales people attending this event. However, we do have a few sponsors helping to under-write the event and sponsor some attendees. These sponsors were hand-selected and invited by John Vlastelica to partner on this workshop. They were selected for their insights and relationships with senior TA leaders, and will be participating in the event, sharing best practices and customer successes.