The Talgo Blog

One of the biggest issues when growing your company is ensuring that you keep your bar for quality high. It’s easy to do for your first dozen hires because they generally come pre-vetted and from your existing networks. Once you start scaling beyond that, you need a reliable process in place for ens...

Whether you’re about to implement the Talgo approach for the first time, or you’ve been doing it consistently for awhile, it’s important to have a process in place to review and improve upon your starting point.

The Japanese philosophy for this is known as Kaizen (“continuous improvement”) and it’s...

If you’re making a commitment to being a better interviewer this year, rapport is a great place to start. It will get you better data and it creates a better experience for the candidate too.

Here are 3 pieces of advice you can apply to your next interview:

1. Curious > Polite
2. “I’m hearing a fasci
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Happy New Year! Here are five resolutions you can make to improve your interviewing and hiring game in 2024:

1. Sharpen Role Definitions: Commit to putting down—in writing—a Target that outlines measurable, time-bound results for each role. Pair them with sharp, differentiated competencies that clea
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One of my favorite business thinkers is Peter Drucker, author of The Effective Executive. Here are a few selected quotes, along with my reflections on how they apply to interviewing and hiring:

“What the executive needs are criteria that enable him to work on the truly important, that is, on cont...

When coaching interviewers, I find myself giving certain advice repeatedly. Here are three areas that almost every new interviewer struggles with.

1. Vocalize More.

We help condense the nuanced concept of rapport (curiosity, fascination) into a memorable tagline: Smile, Nod, Vocalize. Most people ...

I've been facilitating CEO/founder 360 feedbacks and noticed a recurring theme: most leaders and organizations grapple with accountability. It's a well-known concept, yet creating a high-accountability culture is hard.

Everyone knows—intellectually—how important accountability is. Of course you’re ...

The idea of a perfect initial question is a myth in the world of interviewing. A question that promises to unlock a candidate's entire potential or flawlessly predict their future performance doesn't exist. If it did, candidates would rehearse their answers, turning interviews into scripted plays ra...

Curiosity isn't just a trait; it's an essential skill for interviewers. We all have an internal sense of when we are bored and when we are engaged, and you can actually channel this into an tactical compass for becoming a better, more precise interviewer.

First, a note on relevance. The interview s...