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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 331: Transforming Recruitment Marketing Feb 10, 2021

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It's still early in the year, but the reimagining of Recruitment Marketing is already a big topic for 2021. This has been clear in several conversations I've had with talent acquisition leaders and in the results of the audience survey I currently have running.

Many employers are looking to transform their recruitment marketing to meet the new challenges they have and leverage emerging techniques and technologies.

So what is cutting-edge thinking in recruitment marketing and what steps do talent acquisition teams need to take to unlock the power of what is possible?

To give us some insights to answer these questions, I'm delighted to welcome Allyn Bailey, Global Recruitment Marketing Leader at Intel, back to the podcast. Allyn is one of the most progressive thinkers in our industry, and this is genuinely a must-listen interview.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Why and how recruitment marketing is transforming

▪ Data decision mapping

▪ Collecting target audience data via automation

▪ Segmenting audiences by behaviour and motivation

▪ Candidate data infrastructure

▪ Predictive modelling in recruitment marketing

▪ Building purposeful engagement plans

▪ Providing genuine value with content

▪ Advice to talent acquisition leaders on how to start their transformation

▪ What does the longer term future look like for recruitment marketing

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Ep 330: Jobs That Don't Exist Yet Feb 05, 2021

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We are living through a time of immense disruption the full scale of which we don't yet fully understand. The pandemic has caused millions to lose their jobs and changed the business models of entire industries. Understanding the skills now needed in the labour market and the level of reskilling required is further complicated by the rise of artificial intelligence and automation.

So what does the future of work now look like and how can companies and individuals navigate the next few years?

My guest this week is Dr Michelle Weise, Senior Advisor at Imaginable Futures and author of the book, Long Life Learning - Preparing for jobs that don't even exist yet. Michelle specialises in the future of work and the future of learning and has some incredibly valuable insights to share

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ A more positive vision for the future of work

▪ The lack of a common skills taxonomy

▪ Data infrastructure for talent mobility

▪ Why employers are struggling to articulate the skills they have and recognise the gaps

▪ The role of technology

▪ Restructuring the working day to enable reskilling

▪ Developing an "Education GPS"

▪ What does the future look like and how can we solve these problems

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Ep 329: Assessment Lessons From Elite Sport Jan 29, 2021

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Understanding and assessing talent is something I don't think we talk about in enough detail in our industry. Advances in both technology and neuroscience are challenging traditional thinking in recruiting if this will be another key topic for me this year.

To get the conversation started my guests this week have a simple fascinating story to share. Eric Castien and Andries Van der Leij are the founder and CTO of Brainsfirst. Brainsfirst is a Dutch company that uses cognitive psychology and machine learning to help elite football teams identify future talent. They have brought their learnings into the business world and have some incredible insights to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Talent identification in elite football

▪ Studying the link between specific brain function and performance

▪ Learnability over capability

▪ How understanding brain skills can drive talent redistribution

▪ Only assessing skills you can actually quantify

▪ Seeing a role as a set of desired behaviours

▪ Focusing on future fit

▪ Eliminating bias

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Ep 328: Authentic Hiring Jan 27, 2021

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Over the last six months, we have talked a lot about transformation in talent acquisition with a large number of employers working hard to reinvent their strategies to meet the new challenges they face.

So what does great talent acquisition now look like in 2021? Well, that's a question I'll be focusing on a lot in the coming weeks and months.

My guests this week are Rona Anhalt, and Ed Nathanson, the Chief People Officer and VP of Talent and Talent Branding at disruptive pharmaceutical startup EQRx. Since their launch early last year, EQRx has done fantastic work in talent branding and talent acquisition and really is a benchmark for what hiring strategies should now look like.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ How EQRx is disrupting the pharmaceutical industry

▪ The challenges of scaling up talent acquisition in a pandemic

▪ Building a purpose driven culture

▪ Diversity, Equality, Fairness and Inclusion

▪ Culture add over culture fit.

▪ Superpowers

▪ Being bold with talent branding

▪ The power of people stories and authentic interviews

▪ Candidate experience as the ultimate differentiator

▪ What they will be focusing on in the next 12 months

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Ep 327: Conversational Intelligence Jan 22, 2021

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It's only the end of January, and I think we can all clearly see that 2021 will be another challenging year. So what can talent acquisition leaders do to motivate and build resilience in their teams during these incredibly stressful times?

My guest this week is Jen Thornton, a former Global Director of HR Operations who is now founder and CEO of 304 Coaching. Jen is an expert in conversational intelligence, something that can help everyone improve the quality and outcomes of their communication.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ What is Conversational Intelligence

▪ Applying neuroscience to workplace communication

▪ Having better conversations

▪ Motivating Talent Acquisition teams in tough times

▪ The importance of resilience and coping with change

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Ep 326: Getting Automation Right Jan 15, 2021

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Recruiting Automation will be a topic we explore in a lot of detail over this coming year. The key to any automation strategy is removing friction in a way that saves time and resource but at the same time enhances the experience for candidates, recruiters and hiring managers. I wanted to bring this to life by looking at a very specific recruiting process area, interview scheduling.

As we all know, talent acquisition has many nuances, and generic scheduling automation tools can often create more work than they save and damage the candidate experience. So how should we automate and what are the real benefits of doing it properly

To help answer this question my guests this week are Adam Bird CEO and Co-Founder of scheduling platform Cronofy and Jon Eyers founder of tech recruitment company Harvey Thomas.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Automating interview scheduling in a smart way

▪ Improving the candidate, recruiters and hiring manager experience

▪ Factoring recruiting nuances into automation

▪ Reducing friction to save time and increase value

▪ Remembering what humans are good at and recognising what computers are good at

▪ The future of recruiting automation

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Round Up: New Year 2021 Jan 13, 2021

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In this short episode, Matt reflects on the past 12 months and looks forward into 2021.

Episodes Mentioned in this Round Up:

Ep 321: The End Of Jobs

Ep 32: Better Recruitment marketing

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Ep 325: Recruiting Leaders Dec 23, 2020

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Recruiting at the C-Level presents some unique challenges, perhaps the most prominent being the long-standing inequality of the number of women hired at board level. The sudden move to remote recruiting has also significantly disrupted executive search's traditional high touch candidate experience.

My guest this week is Venesa Klein, a partner at international search firm Calibre One. Venessa worked as an in house recruiter earlier in her career and has some valuable knowledge and insights to share on the current challenges in executive recruiting and the drive for more equality in the C-Suite.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ Building an effective in house executive recruiting team

▪ How high touch candidate experience has adapted to remote

▪ Is female representation in the C-Suite improving and what are the key issues

▪ Why internal career pathing is critical to equity at the top

▪ Being inclusive

▪ How has 2020 changed the market

▪ The value of the CHRO

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Ep 324: Better Recruitment Marketing Dec 22, 2020

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I've been involved in recruitment marketing and employer brand for a couple of decades now. I've consistently felt that although there is some outstanding work in this space, the overall quality of output is not as good as it could be. So how can we fix this and who can we learn from to make things better?

My guest this week is Nick Thompson, Global Talent Marketing Team Manager at IBM. Nick and the teams that he has worked with have done some brilliant work in recruitment marketing and employer branding in the last few years and have developed ways of working that everyone can learn from

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ How can talent acquisition step up the quality of recruitment marketing and employer branding

▪ Judging recruitment marketing against other types of marketing.

▪ Effective methodologies and processes

▪ Failing fast and iterating

▪ Understanding your audience

▪ Giving employees a voice

▪ The role of technology

▪ Thoughts and predictions for the future

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Ep 323: Solving Talent Challenges Dec 18, 2020

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The past nine months have thrown up multiple challenges for talent acquisition leaders. While technology isn't ever the whole answer, it has been interesting to see how employers have been using emerging recruiting technologies to help address the unique problems 2020 has created.

My guest this week is Michael Watson, Senior Director of Talent Transformation Advisory at Eightfold.ai. Michael has previously been a TA Leader and some great insights to share in terms of driving practical value from AI technology.

In the interview, we discuss:

▪ The current challenges for talent acquisition

▪ Using technology to separate the signal from the noise

▪ What value does AI bring to talent acquisition?

▪ Using technology to reduce bias

▪ Enhancing human interaction by automating repeatable tasks

▪ Mobility and retention

▪ Building meaningful engagement

▪ What's next for recruiting technology

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