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Recruiting Future with Matt Alder – What’s Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

Talent acquisition is undergoing unprecedented disruption as AI, economic uncertainty, and the ever-shortening lifespan of skills radically reshape recruiting. On Recruiting Future, Matt Alder explores this evolving landscape, using insightful interviews with transformational TA practitioners and forward-thinking experts to spark your imagination and provide the insights you need to shape the future of talent acquisition in your organization.
Each episode explores topics such as AI, recruiting automation, recruitment marketing, employer branding, skills-based hiring, assessment, candidate experience, DEI, internal mobility, and the transformation of TA teams. Recruiting Future is an essential resource for everyone involved in hiring.
Matt Alder is a globally respected talent acquisition futurist, author, and speaker with over 25 years of experience exploring what’s next in recruiting. Renowned for his expertise in strategic foresight and technology trends, Matt provides a unique perspective that empowers leaders to navigate disruption. His deep industry knowledge and ability to spark meaningful conversations make Recruiting Future a must-listen for talent acquisition and HR professionals everywhere.

Latest Episodes:

Ep 382: HR's Impact On Talent Brand Oct 20, 2021

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With everything that is going on in the market, it is more important than ever to understand the factors that make people feel positive enough to want to advocate for their employer or feel negative enough to want to leave their job.

My guest this week is Marcus Buckingham, Head of Research, People and Performance at The ADP Research Institute. Marcus is well known in the industry for doing pioneering research work. He has just realised a report with a new model that measures the impact and performance of HR through the lens of employee experience. The results are fascinating and illustrate just how much influence the performance of HR can have on a company's talent brand.

In the interview, we discuss:

The current state of the market and the reassessment of work

The HR XPerience Score

Measuring the effectiveness of HR through employee experience

Can HR drive positive employee behaviours?

What are the levers to create a great experience?

How HR experience drives talent brand

How HR can drive attrition

Characteristics of a high scoring HR function

Results that run counter to current megatrends

The importance to humans of being seen at work

What does the future look like

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Ep 381: People First Automation Oct 14, 2021

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Recruiting automation via conversational AI is proving to be an effective way to help solve some of the unique challenges in today's talent markets. But how are employers actually using it, what benefits are they getting, and how do they manage the balance between humans and machines.

My guest this week is Victor Gaines, Senior Vice President, Talent Acquisition at Aveanna Healthcare. Aveanna has been using automation technology to vastly increase efficiencies in its recruiting process. Victor has some exceptional advice and insights to share on choosing and implementing technology, as well as some fascinating thoughts around the future of recruiting.

In the interview, we discuss:

Talent acquisition challenges in the home care market

Working at scale when speed is a critical issue

The role of technology in creating internal and external efficiencies

Building an engaging candidate experience with automation

Being people first

Balancing technology and humans

Advice to TA leaders on evaluating and buying technology

What to look for in vendor partners

Screening people in rather than ruling them out

The future of recruiting

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Ep 380: Transformational Hiring Oct 13, 2021

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Digital transformation is currently one of the fundamental drivers of talent strategy for many organizations. Ensuring your company has the right balance of skills is a complex task involving talent acquisition, L&D, retention, internal mobility and an effective HR and Recruiting tech stack.

So how are employers managing the complexity of all of this while prioritizing the employee experience?

My guest this week is Harm Otten, Executive Vice President Human Resources at DHL Global Forwarding & Freight. Harm has spent the last few years focusing on the talent aspect of digital transformation within his organization, putting recruiting technology at the heart of the strategy.

In the interview, we discuss:

Digitizing the HR organization

Improving the employee experience

Creating a job architecture and an internal career marketplace

Building an HR tech stack around a core systems

The advantages of using end to end recruiting technology

The impact of the pandemic on working practice

How digital transformation is changing skill requirements in a competitive market

The vital importance of EVP and being an attractive employer

Being applicant centric

Combing cultures after an acquisition

The future of recruiting

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Ep 379: The Right To Remain Human Oct 08, 2021

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As our working lives become ever more focused on digital screens and devices, how can employers ensure that they support their employees' mental wellness? Also, with the growth of digital tracking and surveillance in work technology, how can HR step up to defend cultures and long term productivity by ensuring people are treated as humans and not machines.

My guest this week is Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, founder of Consciously Digital. Anastasia writes, speaks and coaches extensively around the impact of devices on wellbeing and the challenges around the use of technology at work.

In the interview, we discuss:

Screens, devices and mental health

Establishing boundaries and regaining balance

How employers can help

Productivity and deep work

Digital presenteeism

Tracking and surveillance

Why HR needs to step up

What would an ideal world look like

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Ep 378: Values Driven Retention and Recruiting Oct 07, 2021

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Keeping employees is as difficult as attracting employees at the moment, and, as ever, it is particularly tough in the tech sector. The relationship between employees and employers is changing, and shared values are a vital part of this.

My guest this week is Michel Visser, VP People Success & Enablement at software company Unit4. Unit4 are taking a holistic values driven approach to recruitment and retention. It is also a strategy based on innovation and experimentation, and Michel has some extremely valuable perspectives to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

Recruiting challenges in tech

Talent on the move

Making work more than transactional

Taking a holistic view of employee success

Being innovative with compensation and benefits

Meaning versus tokenism

Using core values as a compass

Demonstrating values through candidate experience

What is the future of work?

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Ep 377: Strategic AI Oct 01, 2021

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Talent Acquisition is uniquely challenging at the moment. Impossible talent markets, virtual recruiting, and evolving EVPs are just a small selection of TA leaders' current challenges. At the same time, we are seeing an unprecedented amount of investment and innovation in recruiting technology being driven by AI. So how does everything join up, and how can talent acquisition teams use AI in a strategic way to address the problems they face

My guest this week is Rebecca Warren, part of the Customer Success team at Eightfold AI. Rebecca is a former TA leader, which gives her some unique insights and advice to share on using AI strategically.

In the interview, we discuss:

Talent Acquisition challenges

The best way of connecting with candidates in the current environment

Looking beyond the resume

Using AI to find skill adjacency, talent and potential

DE&I, what is happening in practice?

Which new ways of working are long term trends

How AI can make Talent Acquisition more strategic

The evolution of the EVP

Practical examples of AI in action

Advice to talent acquisition leader on AI

What does the future hold?

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Ep 376: Recruiting In Challenging Markets Sep 27, 2021

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Recruiting is a challenge for pretty much everyone at the moment, but how do you continue to recruit effectively in a market with long term skill shortages in a country whose borders have been shut for more than 18 months and where applications rates are down by 75%?

My guest this week is Lorraine Carr, Talent Acquisition Manager at Class, an Australia based FinTech. Lorraine is using a combination of strategies to recruit successfully in an incredibly challenging market and has some high-quality insights and experiences to share

In the interview, we discuss:

The current challenges in technology recruitment

How talent acquisition at Class has evolved

Creating a diverse pipeline

The importance of optimizing job ads

Candidate experience and the Circle Back initiative

Hiring managers and executive stakeholders

Preboarding

The humanization of EVPs

What does the future of talent acquisition look like

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Ep 375: The Magic Of Behavioural Science Sep 22, 2021

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Over the last couple of years, I've developed an increasing interest in the use of behavioural science in advertising and marketing and its growing relevance in broader business disciplines. I'm absolutely convinced that it offers a route to incredible innovation in talent acquisition and therefore is something we should all be actively investigating.

So what is behavioural science, and what implications does it have for recruiting, diversity and the future of work. There is no one better to explain all of this than Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy. Rory is one of marketing most original thinkers and influential speakers. He is a pioneer of behavioural science in business, and it's a huge privilege to have him on the show to share his thoughts about talent and talent acquisition.

In the interview, we discuss:

Why Behavioural Science is the science of knowing what economists are wrong about

The dangers of defensive decision making

Finding psychological truths and the importance of emotions

Why Uber has a map

Recruiting for diversity of thought

How Ogilvy have redesigned the recruiting process to find people of exceptional non-standard ability

While the average is not the optimal solution

The difference between equality of opportunity and diversity of opportunity

Why work is a relational relationship, not a transactional one

Cost reduction versus lost opportunities

Personalising the value exchange between employer and employee

The future of work and why it has taken a pandemic to get us there

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Ep 374: The Whole Person Workplace Sep 17, 2021

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The relationship between employees and employers is fundamentally changing. The integration of work and life has never been more in focus. Making work better for employees is no longer a wish list item; it is imperative for competitive advantage. So who is leading the way here, and are we seeing a short term trend or a permanent shift?

To help answer these questions, my guest this week is Scott Behson, a professor of management at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Scott has recently published a book called The Whole Person Workplace, which explores how employers are building better workplaces by focusing on Work-Life, Wellness and Employee Support.

In the interview, we discuss:

What is the whole person workplace?

Rethinking work

What are leading employers doing

Flexibility and trust

Small companies versus large companies

The growing power and influence of employees

Workers whose roles are tied to time and place

What could the future look like

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Ep 373: Filling The Talent Gap Sep 16, 2021

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Talent markets continue to be challenging globally, and employers have to think differently to fill the talent gaps within their organisations. So what strategies are working, and what might the future look like?

My guest this week is Heather Moyer. Heather is the President, CEO and Founder of HNM Systems, which provides talent and consulting services to the Telecommunications, Utilities and IT sectors. Heather shares her experience and expertise of working in markets with severe skill shortages and discusses how employers are responding to the current situation.

In the interview, we discuss:

Talent market challenges

Focusing on retention and meeting the needs of employees

Career development and mentoring

Authentic employee engagement

Predictive analytics for talent acquisition

Identifying and persuading hard to find talent

What could the future look like

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