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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 58: How To Nuture Passive Talent Jul 08, 2016

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Ep 58: How To Nurture Passive Talent
One of the biggest issues I’m seeing Resourcing leaders face this year is the challenge of introducing digital marketing methodologies and behaviours into their strategies. There are some great tech tools out there if they are not utilized in the right way then failure is assured, especially when working with passive talent.
There are a number of organizations who are adapting brilliantly to the new recruiting reality and using digital marketing tools extremely effectively to help them achieve their resourcing objectives. One such company is Salesforce and my guest this week is Jennifer Johnston who is their Head of Global Employer Branding and Recruitment Marketing.
In the interview we discuss:
• The challenges of recruiting 7000 people a year in the toughest geographies and talent segments
• The importance of reputation and how to actively manage it
• How to qualify talent pipelines to avoid wasting people’s time
• Nurturing passive candidates using pre-tested, optimized content
• Using data to quantify addressable markets of talent
Jennifer also shares her strategy for educating line managers to improve the candidate experience and gives us an insight into her vision for the future of recruitment marketing.

This podcast is kindly supported by Lever, where ATS meets CRM
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Ep 57: Are You Getting Enough Talent Attention? Jul 01, 2016

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We live in an age of digital noise and distraction. How can you be sure you are getting the attention necessary to persuade the right people to join your company? Over the last few weeks I’ve been doing a number of presentations and webinars on the concept of “Talent Attention” as I’m finding it is becoming more and more of an issue for employers all over the world.
This week’s episode is a recording of a webinar I did last week and in the presentation I talk about:
• The Talent Attention problem and why it is getting worse
• Why it is easy to blame the tools but actually we need to think about Talent Acquisition in a different way
• A metaphor to illustrate what recruiters often get wrong when attempting to get the attention of potential hires
• The complexity problem
• A simple model that can help you radically improve your strategy and ensure you get the attention of the right talent
I hope you enjoy this departure from the normal podcast style, next week’s episode will revert back to the normal interview format.
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Ep 56: How To Use Employees As Brand Advocates Jun 10, 2016

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Using Employee generated content for employer brand communication is a topic we’ve covered a couple of times on the podcast now. In this episode I want to take things to the next level and talk about using employees as brand ambassadors to strategically distribute and amplify brand content as a way of reaching targeted networks of talent.
I’ve always considered this to be the key to social recruiting success and my guest this week, Craig Fisher the Head of Employer Branding at CA Technologies, is certainly someone who shares this view. I’ve known Craig for a long time now and he has always been a practitioner who operates at the cutting edge of social media, experimenting with different tools and techniques to get tangible recruiting results.
In the interview we discuss:
• Why EVP should be “inside out” with the employees themselves communicating and carrying the brand
• Using employee advocacy platform technologies
• The 5-1 “give to ask” ratio and why it is vital to success
• How CA Technologies identified 80 internal brand champions and the results they have seen after the first five months of the advocacy program.
• The best tools for curating relevant job seeker content
Craig also gives some great practical advice on how to start a employee advocacy program and share his thoughts on emerging recruiting technologies
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Ep 55: The Power Of Employee Generated Content May 31, 2016

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In my work as a consultant, I’m constantly seeing examples of employers whose recruitment marketing and employer brand activity is ineffectual because they are lacking content from their employees that illustrates what working for them is really like.
Generating, managing and optimizing this kind of content is hard and can potentially take up huge amounts of resource. Unsurprisingly then we are now seeing a growing number technology companies providing products and services to help employer brand managers in this area.
My guest on this episode of the podcast is Phil Strazzulla the Founder and CEO of LifeGuides, a company that is helping employers capture and tell their employees stories. In the interview we discuss:
• The advantages of using “Employee Authored Content”
• Some of the reasons employers struggle in this area
• What makes great employee content and the vital importance of authenticity
• The problem with “Frankenstein” job descriptions
• How data insights can help
Phil also gives us examples of companies who are doing this well and offers his advice on how to get started.
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Ep 53: Are You Ready For The Future Of Work? May 19, 2016

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Predicting the future of work is not an exact science, however one prediction that most people seem to agree with is that there will be a significant rise in freelance and contract working. This trend is already here; recent years have seen both a significant rise in the contingent workforce and the advert of talent marketplaces shaping the “gig economy”.
My guest this week is Connor Heaney, Managing Director of CXC Corporate Services. I first met Connor last year when I spoke at CXC’s future of work summit in Dublin. Since then Connor has been running future of work think tanks all over the world and has some important perspectives on how companies should be preparing themselves for the future of work.
In the interview with discuss:
• The positives and negatives of the rise of the gig economy
• The lack of government readiness to understand the changes and give the new workforce the support they need
• Predicted growth rates for the contingent workforce and its implications for traditional companies
• How ready companies are for the legal and tax implications of larger contingent workforces
• The evolution in Employer Branding that is needed make sure companies are attracting the right contingent talent.
• Recruiters versus algorithms
Connor also talks the most interesting technology innovations he is seeing in the space and gives us his view on the future
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Ep 53: Unique Insights From People Analytics May 13, 2016

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People Analytics is one of the hottest topics there is in HR at the moment. A data revolution is starting to make companies radically rethink their approaches to attracting, retaining and developing talent.
Technology is transforming the kind of qualitative research that underpins employer branding and employee engagement strategies, providing the ability to generate instant insights that would have previously taken months of work to produce.
My guest this week is Andrew Marritt from Organization View. Andrew is a pioneer in the field of text analytics for HR and has some fascinating insights into the potential for data in the talent space.
• In the interview we discuss:
• The relevance of Big Data for HR
• The power of using technology to bring meaning to the free text data found in performance reviews and employee surveys on a massive scale
• How free text analytics can help to develop subtle differences in employer brand messaging to give maximum appeal across multiple target audiences
• The potential for real time analysis of job applications to generate automated smart follow up questions, particularly in the graduate recruitment space
Andrew also share his thoughts on the application of text analytics to email and workplace collaborations systems to spot conversational trends within organizations
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Ep 52 How To Set Up An In House Recruiting Function May 05, 2016

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The popularity of moving recruitment in house continues to grow and is now something that is happening across all types of businesses whether they are large corporates, SMEs or high growth start ups. Setting up a in house recruitment function can be a learning experience both for the company and for the recruiters involved as the reality is often much more complex than the theory.
My guest this week is Nick Yockney Head of People for Property Partner, a property crowdfunding platform. Nick has set up two new in house recruiting functions since making the transition from agency recruiter to in house recruiter and is very open and honest about his experiences.
In the interview we discuss:
• The Difficulties for recruiters when moving from agency to in house
• The motivations businesses might have for bringing recruitment in house
• The importance of understand the rhythm of the business and the value an in house function can add if it does this
• The dangers of over-promising
• Thinking strategically while realistically assessing the tools you have
• Function over fashion in recruitment technologies.
Nick also tells us what has surprised him most about moving in house, the tools he finds most useful and his views on the future.
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Ep 51: Recruiting To Digitally Transform The Government Apr 22, 2016

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Gartner Research predicts that by 2020 75% of business will be a digital business or preparing to become one. Digital Transformation is the number one priority for many CEOs and I think it is crucial that HR and Recruiting positions themselves to be key drivers in this business revolution. The companies who can attract and retain the right talent at the right time in the right way are going to be the ones who win the race
Governments tend to have terrible track records when it comes to technology and the UK government is no exception. However in recent years The Government Digital Service has managed to break the mould and make some fantastic progress with the digital transformation of many core UK Government services.
My guest this week is Zeshaan Shamsi who is now Head of Talent Acquisition at background check company Onfido. Previous to this he was Head of Recruitment for the Government Digital Service and his experience there is the main focus of our conversation.
In the interview we discuss:
• The background to the Government Digital Service, how it came about and what it is tasked with doing
• The benefits of challenging the status quo and questioning everything especially entrenched recruiting processes
• Honest open communication and why it is so important in driving change
• The importance of data driven approaches to recruitment
• Cool tools and silver bullets
Zeshaan also tells us why he can’t predict the future and shares his frank opinions on “celebrity” recruitment gurus!
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Ep 50: A Global Perspective On Employer Branding Apr 14, 2016

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Employer Branding continues to be as hot a topic as ever and we’ve covered it from a few angles different angles on previous podcasts. One aspect I’ve been doing a lot of research into this year is how large companies deal with the issue of EVP and employer brand consistency across different countries and different job types.
My guest this week is John Wilson the CEO and Founder of RPO WilsonHCG. WilsonHCG have offices all over the world and work with many clients on a global basis.
In the interview we discuss:
• How companies can make their employer brands globally consistently but also make sure that they resonate locally
• Which companies do this well
• Dealing with social media in multiple languages
• The difference between C-Suite perceptions and EVP reality
• The role of employee generated content in employer brand engagement
• The global impact of employee review sites
John also gives us his thoughts about the future and the commercial implications of a poor employer brand
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Ep 49: An Enterprise Level View On The Future Of Talent Acquisition Apr 07, 2016

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When industry commentators write and speak about talent acquisition, there is a tendency towards generalized truisms that seemingly apply to all employers. The actual truth is much more nuanced and there are distinct differences in the reality of talent acquisition both between industries and between SMEs and large enterprises.
My guest for this episode is David Mason. David has worked at a senior level driving talent acquisition innovation at a number of very large corporates in some progressive industry sectors.
In the interview we discuss:
• Three key things that have changed in Talent Acquisition over the last five years
• Which industries are driving innovation and why
• The problems large corporates have with embracing new technology
• Where Talent Acquisition leaders should focus in order to drive change
David also gives us his views on the future and the role he sees being played by “Applied Artificial Intelligence” in recruiting.
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