• Go from feeling lost and confused...
  • ...to feeling confident in your abilities!

Skills You'll Be Able to Demonstrate

  • Identify, source and engage candidates through creative and innovative sourcing approaches

  • Provide market research to support candidate and geographic profiling to guide recruiting in various locations

  • Review, pre-screen and interview candidates to determine appropriateness of skills, experience, and knowledge in relation to position requirements

  • Ensure consistent communication regarding recruiting efforts by providing status updates to all stakeholders through meetings, email updates, and reports

  • Monitor the effectiveness of all recruiting efforts, with specific attention paid to continued flow of candidates through the recruiting pipeline

  • Understand how to engage and recruit technical talent in a fast paced environment

  • Provide excellent support to candidates throughout the recruitment process to ensure a world class candidate experience

  • Ability to build strong, productive relationships with hiring managers

  • Exposure to full lifecycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, negotiations/closing, and candidate relationship management

  • Exposure to applicant tracking systems (ATS)

  • Regularly track pipeline activity to share with internal stakeholders

  • Experience using data to consult with hiring managers to make data-based decisions on processes and approaches; experience with Tableau is a big plus

  • Handle confidential information discreetly

  • Ability to adapt in a fast-paced, continually evolving environment using proven time management skills and working with a strong sense of urgency

  • Strong interpersonal and organizational skills

Syllabus

Module 1: Know Your Role

  • Know what a Technical Talent Advisor is
  • Know the people function (and where a TA sits within it)
  • Know your client businesses
  • Deep Dive SDLC/Scrum Agile Overview
  • Understanding the end to end recruiting process + ATS
  • Mindset Matters
  • Many Hats of a Talent Advisor
  • The KO
  • Deep Dive: Product Manager


Module 2: Know the Process

  • The KO
  • Follow-up Fridays (never leave them hanging)
  • Module 1 Workbook
  • Deep Dive: Front/End + Backend Engineer
  • Sourcing for Success / Sourcing strategies session with Justin Giovinco
  • Understanding how to do the work of TAs
  • Market Intel Conversations
  • Deep Dive: UX/UI Designer


Module 3: Consultative Excellence

  • Time Management + Communication
  • Follow-up Fridays for Clients + Candidates
  • Deep Dive, Engineering Leadership
  • Shadowing your HM's phone screens + stand ups
  • Deep Dive: Mobile Engineering
  • Interviewing Techniques, Bias & Legal Issues
  • Phone Screening Dos/Don'ts
  • Deep Dive: Understanding QA + SDET Engineering
  • Sourcing in Action (outreach, metrics)



Module 4: Effective Project Management

  • Sourcing for Success
  • Rapport building (with candidates)
  • Understanding Front End/Back End/Full Stack engineering
  • What is an "HR Business Partner/People Partner?"
  • Understanding the relationship between cross functional people teams, internally
  • Rapport building (with HRBP, cross functional teams)
  • Module 3 Workbook


Module 5: Run Your Process

  • Initial Client Status Overview
  • Understanding Mobile Engineering
  • Documentation + delivery
  • Module 4 Workbook 


Module 6: Rock Your Role as a Tech TA 

  • Candidate Review
  • Advising vs. order taking
  • Understanding the talent market (trends, data, market impacts)
  • Module 5 Workbook

1:1 Mentorship with Dom Farnan

The Mentorship add-on includes individualized monthly calls with Dom Farnan, Founder of DotConnect™️, to help you enhance and accelerate your learning agility for talent advising while also giving you an opportunity to learn first-hand what it is like to be on the professional path of being a top talent advisor. Connecting the dots is easy with Dom as your guide! Learn more about working with Dom 1:1 as your professional path mentor here.

Founder + CEO, DotConnect™

Dominique Farnan

As a Leader, Founder and Entrepreneur, Dom Farnan has an uncanny ability of uncovering talents’ potential -- and that’s why, after extensive personal development at the highest levels with thought leaders like Seth Godin, the women of Chief and dozens of others, she has launched a professional certification program to help more Talent Advisors find their truest path through understanding their own growth, thereby accessing their fullest potential.


The DotConnect™ Talent Acquisition Framework was developed by Dom to understand individuals’ values and help better align their professional lives with their personal passions so they can create a life that matters. Over the past 20 years, Dom has leveraged her passion for humans, her deep understanding of Talent Acquisition and combined the two to develop this strategic process that works wonders.

Path Connect features courses that the DotConnect™ team runs through on an annual basis to ensure that their mindset aligns with the skill set needed to find the right talent for their clients.

Path Connect is designed to help you create a career in Talent Recruiting by leveraging an existing skill set and building on it.

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