Founder & CEO
John Vlastelica, Founder and CEO of Recruiting Toolbox, Inc., started his consulting and training firm back in 2005. In that time, he hired amazing consultants, including Ben Gotkin (2012), Matt Grove (2013), Paul Bunda (2018) who helped deliver projects to 300+ companies in 30 countries, including multiple projects with global leaders like Walmart, Nestle, Deloitte, LinkedIn, Disney, PepsiCo, Booking, CDW, SAP, Northrop Grumman, Autodesk, and Micron. Beginning in 2026, John wanted to focus more of his time on writing, investing in talent tech companies, engaging senior talent leader communities, and less time on operational management of consulting and training projects. While John will remain focused on content development, marketing, and sales for Recruiting Toolbox, he will now work with Ben, Matt, and Paul through an exclusive third party licensing agreement with their new company, 10x Talent Advisors, LLC. 10x is now the exclusive third party live-delivery licensee of Recruiting Toolbox consulting and training materials. SocialTalent remains the exclusive third party online licensee of Recruiting Toolbox training content.
What does this mean for companies interested in our services? Companies seeking the kind of actionable, real-world consulting and custom, live recruiter, TA leader, hiring manager, and interviewer training we’re known for will now contract and work directly with 10x Talent Advisors, LLC. All 3 consultants at 10x are strongly endorsed by John Vlastelica and have received rave reviews from RT’s clients over the years. The RT support team – including Adrienne Grove, PM, Alicia Glass, Ops Manager, and Ixchell Guadarrama, Marketing Assistant and Admin – will continue their work with 10x, as well.
There’s never been a more transformative time in talent acquisition. Finding a great partner to help you define your hiring standards, improve your TA strategies and processes, level up your interviewer and hiring manager capabilities, and turn your recruiters and TA leaders into true talent advisors is key to org success. For 20 years, Recruiting Toolbox has been helping companies improve their recruiting capabilities, and now 10x Talent Advisors carries forward the same great approach to helping clients improve how they hire.
Ben Gotkin
Manager, 10x Talent Advisors
Former Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox
Matt Grove
Manager, 10x Talent Advisors
Former Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox
Paul Bunda
Manager, 10x Talent Advisors
Former Principal Consultant, Recruiting Toolbox
