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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 339: Diversity Hiring Mar 23, 2021

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are critically important. However, despite much discussion and debate, many employers are still failing to improve their hiring diversity. Those employers that are moving the needle are those that have actionable strategies and leadership accountability.

My guest this week is Rachel Hirsch, who is a Recruiter at Frame.io. Frame.io have a genuine focus on diversity equity and inclusion and have tangible results to show for it. In our conversation, Rachel shares the strategy and identifies the key elements that have driven their success.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ The key recruiting challenges at Frame.io

▪ How unconscious bias affects diversity in sales leadership

▪ Narrowing requirements to the things that matter most

▪ The complications of the pandemic

▪ Building trust with candidates

▪ The critical importance of allyship and leadership accountability

▪ The results have Frame.io seen from its strategy

▪ What does the future look like

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Ep 338: Future Brainfood Mar 17, 2021

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It's fair to say that trends in recruiting technology are moving quickly. The events of the last 12 months have turbo boasted some aspects of the market and radically disrupted others. So what's changed, what's accelerating and what does the future look like?

My guest this week is the perfect person to ask and was the most requested guest in the audience survey that I ran earlier in the year. Hung Lee is the Editor of the leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood and a keen observer of recruiting technology.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Changing trends

▪ The rise of assessment tech

▪ Interview analytics

▪ The future of automation

▪ Ethics

▪ What happens after the pandemic

▪ How the way the industry educates itself on technology has changed

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Ep 337: Interview Intelligence Mar 12, 2021

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Interviews have always been the central tenant of the hiring process and the one area where it has been most challenging to collect meaningful data. The mass move to video interviewing in the last 12 months has potentially changed everything. So, what data can we now gather, and how can it be analysed to drive actionable improvement in the interview process.

My guest this week is Siadhal Magos, the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaview. Metaview is a technology start-up that is helping some well know employers gather data and act on interview intelligence in new and innovative ways.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Using data to make sense of interviews at scale

▪ Two techniques to improve interviews

▪ Will technology replace traditional interviews?

▪ What are the critical interview data points?

▪ The correlation between hiring funnel efficiency and interview rigour

▪ Bias and inclusivity

▪ Addressing privacy concerns

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Ep 336: Jobs At Risk Mar 09, 2021

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The future of jobs in an age of AI and automation has been a popular topic on this show. We've tended to talk in quite theoretical terms and never truly considered what practical solutions there might be to the inevitable job displacement. Millions of jobs have already been lost in the pandemic, and the World Economic Forum predicts that an additional 85 million jobs with be lost to automation by 2025. So what type of jobs will disappear, and how do we upskill and transition the large proportion of the workforce who will be affected?

My guests this week are Madeleine Gabriel and Karlis Kanders from Nesta, the UK's innovation agency for social good. Nesta has just completed a significant piece of research called Mapping Careers Causeways, which is intended to support job transitions and inform skills policy in a labour market that AI and Automation will forever change.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ The uncertain future of work

▪ Which jobs are at risk of automation

▪ Identifying pathways from high-risk occupations to safer ones

▪ Why women are twice as likely to be displaced than men

▪ The three types of core skills that will help people transition

▪ The critical importance of training

▪ The role of talent acquisition

▪ Thinking differently about hiring

▪ Why the best way to predict the future is to create it

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Ep 335 Neurodiversity Mar 04, 2021

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Back in 2019, I interviewed Theo Smith about Neurodiversity at work. At the time, I didn't have much of an understanding of Neurodiversity, and it was great to learn from Theo about the challenges neurodivergent people face in the workplace, what employers can do to support them and the enormous benefits this support would bring to everyone.

Theo has since teamed up with Professor Amanda Kirby, and they are about to publish a book on Neurodiversity at Work. A couple of weeks ago, I caught up with them to find out more about the book and what talent acquisition professionals can be doing to be more inclusive in recruiting and assessment.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ What is Neurodiversity

▪ How do we get the best out of everyone at work?

▪ Cognitive strengths and cognitive struggles

▪ Spiky profiles

▪ Unrealistic job descriptions

▪ Focusing on what people can do rather than what they can't do

▪ Making interviews and assessment more inclusive

▪ How will work change post-pandemic

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Round Up February 2021 Mar 01, 2021

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Round up is the monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from the guests.

Episodes mentioned in this Round Up:

Ep 328: Authentic Hiring

Ep 331: Transforming Recruitment Marketing

Ep 333: Automation, Simplicity and Experience

Ep 332: Careers Site Systems

Ep 329: Assessment Lessons From Elite Sport

Ep 334: Fair AI

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Ep 334: Fair AI Feb 26, 2021

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The number of talent acquisition technology solutions offering AI continues to grow exponentially. However, we must look at AI's role in recruiting through a critical lens to ensure transparency and that technologies are fair and ethical. If AI is being used to improve the candidate experience and remove bias, how do we make sure it isn't actually making things worse.

My guest this week is Barb Hyman, CEO of Predictive Hire, an AI based interviewing solution. Predictive Hire has recently published a paper on Fair AI in recruiting intended to provoke debate and help Talent Acquisition leaders ask the right questions when they are buying a solution. Barb has an HR leadership background which gives her a unique perspective on the dangers and opportunities of the AI revolution.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Fair AI in Recruiting

▪ The importance of vendor self regulation

▪ Why AI should be unbiased, inclusive, valid and explainable

▪ Building trust with talent acquisition leaders and candidates

▪ When AI isn't AI

▪ Why a human candidate experience is critical

Download “Fair AI In Recruitment”

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Talent Watch: Learning & Performance Feb 23, 2021

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As regular listeners will know, I often collaborate with HR Technology Analyst Mervyn Dinnen to produce research reports on various aspects of talent technology.

Our latest report was published a few weeks ago with support from the learning and performance management platform Bridge. I wanted to bring some of the highlights of our findings to the podcast, so keep listening to hear what we discovered about how the landscape for learning and performance management has been changing during the pandemic.

In the episode, we discuss:

▪ Critical skills gaps

▪ The challenges of talent mobility

▪ The importance of specialist and fit for purpose technology

▪ Training to support remote management

▪ The employees perspective

▪ Peer to peer interaction

Download the Learning and Performance Management report

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Ep 333: Automation, Simplicity and Experience Feb 17, 2021

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The events of 2020 / 2021 will shape how talent acquisition operates for years, especially when it comes to recruiting automation. In the past automation in recruiting has often been dismissed as impersonal and ineffective. However, as technology has developed and strategies have changed the immense value and inevitability of automation is becoming clear.

My guest this week is Jeff Uden, Head of Talent for UK supermarket, Iceland. Like all frontline food retailers, Iceland has faced some unprecedented talent acquisition challenges during the pandemic. Jeff gives us an insight into the innovations these challenges have driven, and Iceland's successful use of automation to radical enhance both the candidate and hiring manager experience.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ The challenge of hiring 5,500 people in 8 weeks

▪ Maximising simplicity and efficiency in the recruiting process

▪ The critical importance of candidate experience

▪ Automation with a human touch

▪ Keeping hiring managers empowered

▪ Return on investment from technology

▪ Change management and stakeholder engagement

▪ The future of talent acquisition at Iceland

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Ep 332: Careers Site Systems Feb 11, 2021

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As I said at the start of the last episode reinventing recruitment marketing is a big topic for talent acquisition this year. Long term listeners to the podcast will also know about my deep-held belief that careers sites are the critical element of recruitment marketing that remains very much underutilised.

Many forward-thinking employers are now turning to careers site systems to maximise the recruitment marketing benefits of careers site and minimise their development pain points.

So what happens when we start thinking about careers sites as sophisticated software solutions rather than one-off creative projects?

My guest this week is James Saunders, CEO of Attrax. Over the last few years, James has been one of the pioneers of careers site systems and has a massive amount of knowledge and experience to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ What is a careers site system?

▪ The focal point of employer branding

▪ Strategic positioning

▪ Why employers should invest in their own asset

▪ The dreaded "log in to apply."

▪ The core elements of sophisticated careers sites

▪ Optimising the candidate experience

▪ Personalisation and AI

▪ Unique stats and analytics

▪ Learning from eCommerce

▪ Future innovations

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