TechTACon
Hi, John Vlastelica here. I started TechTACon as the entity I’m using for investments and advisory work with startups in the talent space. I invest in companies that are solving problems that speak to what I care about most – getting great talent into organizations, fairly, with a great candidate experience.
About Me
John Vlastelica
Founder & CEO, Recruiting Toolbox, Inc.
I’ve been leading Recruiting Toolbox, a global management consulting and training firm, since 2005. We help companies define their hiring bars, improve their talent strategies and processes, train recruiters to be talent advisors, train TA leaders to be strategic executive partners to the business, and train interviewers and hiring managers to hire the best talent for their teams in a fair way. Since 2005, we’ve helped over 350 companies in 30 countries, and trained over a hundred thousand people through live and online training workshops. Our clients include many of the biggest names in each industry segment, including Google, Walmart, Starbucks, LinkedIn, Nike, Uber, P&G, CVS, Siemens, Booking, PepsiCo, Adobe, Marriott, Novo Nordisk, AMD, Nubank, SAP, Autodesk, and EA Games.
My team and I draw heavily on our practitioner experience to ensure our deliverables are built for the real world. I was the head of all technical recruiting for Amazon and the global head of TA for Fortune 500 company, Expedia, the parent company to all kinds of travel companies. My team has held director level TA leader roles at companies like KPMG, T-Mobile, and Marriott.
I’ve shared my lessons learned with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat speaker at top recruiting conferences around the world, earning a #1 speaker rating at conferences like LinkedIn Talent Connect, SourceCon, and RecFest. I sold the conference I co-founded in 2018 (Talent42) to ERE Media, and started my large-company, head of TA workshop – Recruiting Leadership Lab 50 – in 2024.
In 2021, I began began advising the founders of Social Talent, the #1 online hiring training platform company based in Dublin, Ireland. Each year, my paid content gets an 80+ NPS rating and is watched between 500,000-1 million minutes per month by their global client base that includes Paramount, Cisco, SAP, IKEA, Accenture, and Ericsson.
In 2025, I began investing in companies and exploring more advisory opportunities.
