Alva Masterclass

Alva Masterclass: The Noise Audit

Friday, May 29, 2026

Free event, choose your format

  • In-person: 8:00–10:30, Miss Clara by Nobis, Stockholm – breakfast included! Limited seats only.

  • Live digital: 13:00–13:55 CET.

The Why

Most hiring processes collect evidence at every stage. Few carry it through to the decision. Criteria shift between roles. Rubrics drift between recruiters. And by the time the committee meets, impressions have often replaced the data.

That's noise. And it's the biggest obstacle to accurate hiring.

Structured hiring reduces noise and produces more accurate decisions. But you can't get there by optimizing stages in isolation. You need a connected system where standards, evidence, and outcomes reinforce each other. That starts with knowing where your current process breaks down. This workshop gives you the tools.

This workshop gives you the tools.

What we'll do

This is a working session. You'll spend most of the time scoring your own hiring process, not listening to a presentation.

  • Understand why your improvements don't compound: Isolated upgrades get absorbed by weaknesses elsewhere in the process. You'll learn the three principles that determine whether those improvements actually hold. 

  • Score your own hiring process: You’ll be guided to score your hiring process, principle by principle. Then compare insights with peers from other organisations.

  • Walk out with your scored diagnostic: Your weakest links, clearly mapped. Concrete enough to take to your next leadership meeting.

Who this is for

You lead TA or own hiring quality in an organisation that sees hiring as a strategic function worth getting right and/or you want a structured way to find where quality leaks, not another opinion on what to fix.

Speakers

Anna Brodin

Lic. Psychologist, People Science Lead, Alva Labs

Anna built Alva's Professional Services function from the ground up. She leads validation studies, builds competency frameworks, and trains TA teams on evidence-based methods across industries. On the product side, she's the go-to for I/O psychology and hiring research, shaping methodology, feature design, and prioritisation. If the question is "does our hiring system actually predict performance?", she's the person you want in the room.