DEEP Teach™

The Ideal Candidate Profile

February 18, 2026

During this Deep Teach, we tackled one of the most overlooked parts of hiring: knowing exactly who your ideal employee is before the job ad ever goes out. This session focused on building an Ideal Candidate Profile the same way marketers build an Ideal Customer Profile, using a 3-part ICP Triangle to filter the right applicants in and the wrong ones out from the start.

Key takeaways from this replay include how to translate your ICP into job ads, social posts, and interview questions that pre-qualify candidates for you, why most interviews are already lost before they begin, and how to use LAYA AI as a hiring co-pilot to guide messaging and decisions in real time. Rather than another hiring checklist, this session gives you a repeatable mental model for every future hire. Watch the replay to walk through the full framework.