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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.

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Ep 238: The Rise Of Talent Intelligence Jan 22, 2020

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Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk

Data based intelligence is a critical part of the modern world, but historically talent acquisition has tended to be based on gut feel and lived experience, making it very slow to wake up to the new realities of data-based decision making. Thankfully things are now changing, and one aspect of this change is the rise of talent intelligence as a talent acquisition business function.

My guest this week is Marlieke Pols, Talent Intelligence analyst at Philips. Marklieke recently authored a whitepaper that Phillips has published aimed at helping employers better appreciate the immense value of talent intelligence as a critical part of any talent acquisition strategy.

In the interview, we discuss:

• What is talent intelligence?

• Why instinct is not good enough

• Difference between talent intelligence and people analytics

• The key benefits, KPIs and ROI of talent intelligence

• Data sources

• How many employers are using talent intelligence

• Building the business case

• The skills needed in a talent intelligence team.

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Ep 237: Analysing The Recruiting Technology Market Jan 16, 2020

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The recruiting technology marketplace is getting extremely complex, and it can be challenging for talent acquisition leaders to develop fully effective technology strategies.

My guest this week is David Wilson, CEO of industry analysts The Fosway Group. In our interview, David talks about the kind of approach and insights Fosway used to analyse talent technology markets. We also talk in some depth about the HCM suite versus specialist solution debate. A debate I can see raging for some time yet and one that will continue to shape the patterns of investment and acquisition in the recruiting technology marketplace.

In the interview we discuss:

• The role of an industry analyst

• Headline findings from Fosway’s 9 Grid report into Talent Acquisition

• Why the talent acquisition technology market is currently in flux

• HCM suite vendors versus specialists

• The evolution of the ATS / CRM debate

• Ecosystems over systems

• Current shortcomings in data and analytics

Download the Fosway 9 Grid report here

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Ep 236: 2019 Round Up Dec 31, 2019

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Contact: matt@metashift.co.uk

Recruiting Future Round-Up is the new monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel. It's a short round-up that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from my guests.

As this is my last show of the year, rather than offer you a round-up specifically for the December interviews, I thought I'd round up the whole of 2019 and at the same time take a little bit of a look forward to 2020.

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Thanks to 4MAT for sponsoring, if you are thinking of replacing or refreshing your careers website in 2020, I would strongly recommend downloading their new eBook.

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Ep 235: A Model Candidate Experience Dec 23, 2019

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It seems like we have been talking about the candidate experience forever, and while some employers have made progress in improving things, there is still a long way to go. One of the issues has always been the lack of a recognised model to explain and then consequently strategically address the candidate experience.

I was therefore delighted to hear that Exaqueo, Career Crossroads and The Talent Board have been working in partnership with several Fortune 500 employers to develop a new employee lifecycle and candidate experience model. To tell us all about this, my guest this week is Susan LaMotte, Founder and CEO of Exaqueo.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Process versus experience

• Phases of the candidate experience

• The unification of candidate experience and employee experience

• Why so few employers are fixing their candidate experience

• Measurement

• Source of influencer versus source of hire

• Talking points and messaging for employee referrals

• Employer Brand

Susan also talks about the role of technology and the importance of the Candidate Experience Awards.

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Ep 234: Data Driven Talent Attraction Dec 19, 2019

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Many organizations are currently finding talent acquisition very challenging and need to increase the sophistication of their recruitment marketing to connect with and influence their target audiences of talent.

My guest this week is Celinda Appleby, Global Talent Attraction Director at Visa. Visa is using a strategy of data-driven recruitment marketing supported by sophisticated storytelling and technology to meet their recruiting challenges and Celinda has some great practical insights to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Visa's recruiting challenges

• How recruitment marketing is changing

• Dealing with multiple personas and target audiences

• Using data for audience insight

• The importance of market analysis

• Working in close partnership with vendors

• Building business cases and consensus internally

• The role of technology

• Redefining what storytelling means

Celinda also shares her thoughts on where the industry is going over the next two to three years.

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Ep 233: How To Buy And Implement An ATS Dec 17, 2019

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Buying and implementing a new ATS can be a long, complicated and frustrating process, not to mention the additional work required to drive adoption once the system is actually in place. So what can employers do to set themselves up for success and make sure the process achieves its ultimate objectives?

My guest this week is Shanu Varghese, Director, Global HR Technology at Apollo Global Management. During his career, Shanu has been responsible for over 50 HR technology implementations and has some great insights and advice to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The importance of keeping up to date with the market and having an open mind

• How to approach the RFP process

• Achieving stakeholder buy-in

• Strategies for successful implementation

• Tailoring your strategy to reflect geographical and role differences

• How to encourage usage and adoption

• The importance of understanding the vendor's product roadmap.

Shanu also talks about recruiting automation and what's next for Apollo.

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Ep 232: Is Assessment Technology Working? Dec 13, 2019

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Back in September 2018, I interviewed industry consultant Bas Van De Haterd about his research work exploring emerging assessment technologies. The assessment market is moving exceptionally quickly, and I wanted to invite Bas back, a year later, to update us on what has changed.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The problems with traditional methods of assessment

• Making sense of evolving technologies

• The issue with black box algorithms

• Are micro-expressions useful?

• The power of game-based assessments

• Using technology to broaden pools of talent

Bas also shares several case studies from employers achieving considerable success with new assessment technology and give us his view on the future.

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Ep 231: The Reality Of Recruiting Automation Dec 12, 2019

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One of the ongoing themes of the podcast in 2019 has been my quest to cut through the hype and find out to what extent employers are automating aspects of their recruiting process. I've spoken to several practitioners and look at the automation debate for a few different angles. So I thought it was high time that I talked to a recruiting technology vendor about the art of the possible in recruiting automation and the benefits they are seeing their clients get from it.

My guest this week is Aida Fazylova, founder and CEO of XOR, an automated communication platform for recruiting. Aida started her career as a recruiter and has some great insights to share into both the current and future capabilities of recruiting automation.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The amount of time wasted on repetitive tasks in recruiting

• The evolving sophistication of chatbots

• Natural language recognition and intent analysis

• Do candidates like interacting with chatbots?

• What areas of the recruiting can be automated now and how much could be automated in the future

• Humans versus machines

Aida also talks about the results and benefits employers are getting from recruiting automation as well her predictions for the marketing int he next 12 months.

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Ep 230: Recruiting Future Round-Up Dec 07, 2019

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Recruiting Future Round-Up is a new monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel.

Now that I'm publishing two podcasts a week, I'm aware that not everyone has time to listen to every show. Moving forward I'll be recording a short monthly round-up episode highlighting episodes you may have missed and giving you my take on some of the key talking points.

Thanks to 4MAT for sponsoring, if you are thinking of replacing or refreshing your careers website in 2020, I would strongly recommend downloading their new eBook.

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Ep 229: Improving Social Mobility Dec 04, 2019

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Social mobility is a critical issue in a lot of countries. What should employers be doing to increase social mobility and how effective can their efforts be in terms of tangible results?

My guest this week is Lisa Scales, Head of Resourcing, Executive and New Talent at Severn Trent, a large UK based utilities company. Severn Trent has recently moved up to 3rd place in The Social Mobility Employer Index as a result of their innovative work in this area and is seeing huge benefits as an organisation from their initiatives.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The definition of social mobility and what it means to Severn Trent as an organisation

• Recruiting on equal terms to show opportunities to a massive pool of untapped talent

• Schools engagement

• Work experience focused on employability.

• Thinking different about the recruitment process

• The Social Mobility Pledge

Lisa also talks about the results Severn Trent as seeing from their initiatives and the considerable benefits to the business.

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