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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 68: How To Source The Very Best Talent Oct 06, 2016

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One of the topics we’ve never really covered in much detail on the podcast is the role of sourcing in corporate recruiting. It is obviously something that is absolutely critical to many organizations particularly those who are recruiting in market segments that are suffering skill shortages.
My guest this week is Chris Shaw Director of Talent at Meteor. Chris has previously been part of the recruiting team at Google and was part of the team who recruited 300 hires in 11 months at Twitter. At Meteor he focuses on recruiting the top 1% of the top 1% of technology talent and I’m delighted he agreed to come on the show to share his thoughts and some of the practical techniques he uses.
In the interview we discuss:
• Why turning passive candidates into active ones is always better than post and pray
• How to identify your Hiring Bar
• The importance of a great ATS
• Automation and personalization
Chris also gives us a step by step walk through of the techniques he uses and share his thoughts on the future of sourcing
This episode the podcast is kindly sponsored by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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Ep 67: Developing an Employer Brand for a Nation Sep 28, 2016

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The critical role employer branding plays in attracting top tech talent to companies is something we have covered a few times on the podcast. However, what happens when you need to create an employer brand for an entire country? The Irish government recently initiated a project to do just that in order to service the growing need to import top tech talent into the Irish digital economy.
My guest this week is Niall Dowling who is Strategic Director at Atomic, the marketing agency who are delivering the project and its resulting website www.techlifeireland.com
In the interview we discuss:
• The strategic thinking behind the employer brand
• Some surprising insights from the research that reveal the motivations that drive people to relocate
• Audience segmentation and personas
• The importance of quality of career and meaningful work
• How the brand has been activated and optimized for the target audience.
Niall also shares the results of the project so far and offers his advice to companies looking to attract senior talent from abroad.
This episode of the podcast is kindly supported by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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Ep 66: Global Talent Branding at Groupon Sep 16, 2016

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The balance between global consistency and local nuance in recruitment marketing is a difficult issue that provokes a lot of debate. It has become clear to me from working with a number of employers in this area that there are no right answers and every company needs a bespoke approach to be successful.
My guest this week is John McCall who oversees Talent Branding for Groupon in the EMEA region. Groupon has grown via acquisition in EMEA, creating a number of challenges for brand and marketing consistency.
In the interview we discuss:
• Groupon’s definition of Talent Branding and how they are positioning themselves as an employer of choice.
• Creating a core central truth with local variations
• Marketing effectively in multiple languages
• The role of mobile video and social engagement
• The importance of messaging consistency throughout the business
John also talks about what is next for Groupon and gives us his thoughts on the future of Talent Branding
This episode of the podcast is kindly supported by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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Ep 65: Transforming Recruiting Into Resourcing Sep 09, 2016

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Changing established ways of thinking is difficult. Changing established ways of thinking about recruiting within large organizations can seem impossible.
However, with economies fluctuating, technology improving and people’s communication preferences developing, driving effective change is a key part of the job for every in house recruiting leader.
My guest this week is Samantha Ramsay, Head of Resourcing and Employer Brand for House of Fraser. Over the last two years Samantha has been systematically challenging assumptions, moving mindsets and embracing new technology to order to drive change within her organization.
In the interview we discuss:
• The difference between recruiting and resourcing
• How fundamental change creates massive impact
• Questioning standard practice in recruiting
• Why House of Fraser prioritise behaviours and traits over past experience
• Success with bespoke online assessment and video interviewing
Samantha also shares her view on the relationship between resourcing and marketing and how resourcing should now be positioned in a very different way
The podcast is kindly supported by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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Ep 64: The Four Biggest Issues In Employer Branding Sep 02, 2016

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Employer branding has never been a more popular discussion topic with a huge amount of content and conference time now dedicated to it. However, when you dig below the surface, there is very little that addresses the day to day concerns of employer brand practitioners, particularly those working within global organizations.

Working in partnership with my regular co-collaborator Mervyn Dinnen and in conjunction with employer brand solution provider Papirfly, this summer we did a piece of research design to restore the balance by uncovering the real issues in employer branding.

On the podcast this week I’m joined by Sara Naveda, Client Director at Papirfly, to discuss the research and its findings.

In our discussion we cover four key issues:

• How to align internal and external brand to greater effect

• Why employer brand becomes even more important in times of commercial turmoil

• How to adopt employee generated content to grow your employer brand at scale

• The importance of measuring effectiveness of your efforts, and best practice techniques for doing so

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Ep 63: A Global Perspective On Social Media Aug 25, 2016

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Planning and executing a social media strategy for recruiting and employer branding is never a straight forward undertaking. However, doing this within a global organization can be particularly problematic. Complex stakeholder relationships with PR, marketing and comms are a key issues as is getting the right segmentation of channels across geographies and audiences. Local versus Global is a debate I’m often asked my opinion on.
My guest this week is Charu Malhotra. Charu has a wealth of experience working as an interim within a range of global organizations and has some unique expertise in building global social recruiting strategies. She is currently leading EVP and Employer Branding projects at Ferrero.
In the interview we discuss:
• The specific challenges social media presents for complex global organizations
• Transparency and fishing where the fish are
• Content types
• Alignment, stakeholder relations and project management
• Global versus Local
• The power of social media as a research tool
Charu also shares her thoughts on the future development of social media and tells us which emerging social channel she thinks has the most potential.
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Ep 62: Key Trends In Talent Technology Aug 12, 2016

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Over the past five years there has been an investment boom in technology products aimed at the talent acquisition market. The industry is getting more complex by the day and making sense of it is a constant challenge for corporate recruiting leaders.
My guest in this episode is Jon Kestenbaum Executive Director at New York based think tank and incubator Talent Tech Labs. Talent Tech Labs have done a huge amount of work to map out and understand this technology market and has developed a taxonomy that identifies 27 different categories of product in the sourcing to onboarding journey.
In the interview we discuss:
• How to make sense of the complex market by cutting through the marketing spin
• Disruptive solutions versus point solutions
• The importance of analytics
• The Five key trends of 2106
• Levels of innovation and tech adoption being seen among corporate employers and staffing companies.
Jon also tells us what has surprised him most during his two years at Talent Tech Labs and gives his view on the likely future of the talent technology space.
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Ep 61: The Modern ATS Aug 04, 2016

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I realized recently that in the previous 60 episodes of this podcast we’ve had hardly any discussion about Applicant Tracking Systems. I’m very keen to rectify this. ATS systems are crucial to so many employers as a key part of the recruiting process. Many people feel that they have not kept pace with the changing nature of recruiting and the expectations of their users. This is certainly true of some systems but there have been some recent innovations in the ATS space that I wanted to get some opinion on.
My guest this week is Jess Hayes, Talent Manager and HR Lead for Lost My Name. Jess has worked with a number of different types of ATS during her career and I wanted to get her views on the changes in the space.
In the interview we discuss:
• How the purpose of an ATS has developed over the last few years
• Expectations of the ATS and why software should adapt as user requirements develop
• The responsibility of the recruiter
• Limiting the administrative burden so recruiters can spend more face time with candidates
• Why integrations are so important
• The potential of nurturing workflows
• Advice for anyone changing ATS or purchasing one for the first time
Jess also tells us which of the new breed of ATS is her favourite and gives her thoughts on the features and functionality that will be needed in the future.
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Ep 60: How To Deal With Unconscious Bias Jul 29, 2016

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Recognising and addressing unconscious bias in the recruitment process is one of the biggest issues HR and Recruiting professionals face. Dealing with it can be difficult, especially in large organisations, but it certainly not something that is impossible.
My guest on the podcast this week is Jon Hull Group Head of Resourcing at Carillion. Carillion have been running diversity and inclusion initiatives that addresses issues with unconscious bias head on and they have had some seriously impressive results.
In the interview we discuss:
• How neuroscience helped Carillion make sense of their problem
• Why bottom up is better than top down
• Diversity and Inclusion as innovation
• Unconscious bias in recruitment marketing and employer branding
• How HR started to think differently about themselves
Jon also talks through the results Carillion have seen from these initiatives and gives his advice to employers who are looking at how to deal with similar issues.
This week’s podcast is kindly supported by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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Ep 59: Are Chatbots The Future Of Recruiting? Jul 18, 2016

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We live in interesting times. Technology is evolving constantly around us and unsurprisingly everyone’s attention is often focused on what will be the next disruptive game changer for the recruitment industry. What we don’t pay enough attention to though is the experiences and frustrations of candidate who have to try and stand out in a noisy world using the tools that are completely outmoded in other aspects of life but jealously held onto by the recruitment industry.
A shiny new CRM or a brilliant assessment algorithm may make recruiters’ lives easier but they don’t really make the experience of recruitment very different for the candidate when everything still hangs round them having to use a word document CV or static LinkedIn profile to get the recruiter’s attention in the first place.
The situation is untenable in the long term and it shouldn’t come as a shock that eventually the jobseekers were going to take things into their own hands.
My guest on this week’s episode is Esther Crawford creator of a “Resumebot” which took her from frustrated jobseeker to funded entrepreneur. I want you to imagine a world where artificially intelligent chatbots match candidates and recruiters in a completely authentic and bespoke way. In the interview you will hear Esther’s story and find out how she might have taken us on the first step of the journey to a new way of recruiting
This week’s podcast is kindly supported by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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