Alva Masterclass

Alva Masterclass: The Noise Audit

May 29, 2026 · This webinar has passed

Most hiring decisions carry more noise than teams realise: the same candidate scored differently depending on who interviewed, when, and in what mood.

This masterclass walks through five strategies to reduce that noise and make your hiring decisions more consistent. The two tools below are built to help you close that gap. Use them together: score yourself first, then read the guide for whichever strategy came out lowest. Teams move fastest when they pick one strategy and one first step to run with.

The Audit Scorecard
A digital one-pager covering all five strategies, with a 1-5 maturity scale and named anchors at each point. Block 20 minutes with your team and run it. Score honestly. The conversation it opens with your team is the real value. Download >

The Practical Guide
For each strategy, the guide gives you three things: what good looks like in concrete behaviours, the smallest first step you can take, and the common traps to watch for as you go. Download > 

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.