Building Interviewer Scorecards to Raise Your Talent Bar with Vanessa Paladini, Nubank

About this episode

Vanessa Paladini discusses how Nubank improved its hiring process through structured assessments and data-backed scorecards.

Great hiring outcomes start with great interviewers. Vanessa Paladini, Global Talent Acquisition Director at Nubank, joins Shannon to share how the world’s largest digital bank outside of Asia raised its hiring bar without slowing down growth. She walks through Nubank’s four workstreams, including structured assessments, technical bar raisers, and a data-backed interviewer scorecard. Vanessa broke down how her team measured interviewer assertiveness, linked decisions to 90-day ramp and 12-mon...

People in this episode

Host: Shannon

Guest: Vanessa Paladini

Topics covered

• hiring
• interviewing
• talent acquisition
• data-driven decision making
• employee performance

Keywords

• interviewer scorecards
• hiring outcomes
• talent bar
• structured assessments
• technical bar raisers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nubank

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