How to Win the Recruiter Call and Land the Next Round

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How to Win the Recruiter Call and Land the Next Round

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

274 students

What you'll learn

The scorecards recruiters use to evaluate you on a call.

How to prep for recruiter calls with next-level research.

How to use AI to forecast the questions you'll be asked.

The DIFF framework for storytelling that will set you apart.

Tricks + best practices that will land you the next round.

Why this topic matters

In 2025, more qualified candidates are applying to an ever-shrinking amount of roles. When you get a phone screen with a recruiter, you have to double down on the opportunity to impress and move into the core of an interview loop. But too many candidates say what everyone else is saying - the 'safe,' academic answer. I'll teach you how to stand out instead, which is what you need to do to win.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Helping people reach the height of their ambition.

Sherveen brings unique insight from all sides of the hiring equation, having built AI-powered recruiting technology and led product development at major startups like Toptal and Stella.

For a majority of his career, he's also been uniquely focused on the candidate side of the equation. He previously founded JobHero, a job search tracker with 100k+ enthusiastic users, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency.

Through Free Agency (backed by prominent investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, Kygo), he now helps job seekers navigate the modern hiring landscape to land top of market roles. Since 2019, clients of Free Agency have won over $400M in job offers and landed at top companies like OpenAI, Amazon, American Express, Stripe, YouTube, Netflix, and hundreds more.

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