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

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Early bird pricing is available until July 1 - that's 40% off regular tuition!