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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 48: The End Of Graduate Recruitment As We Know It? Apr 01, 2016

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Sometimes if you want to be innovative you need to challenge the status quo by taking the tried and tested ways of working and turning them on their head. Often you’ll find they are tried and tested for a reason but sometimes subverting the norm will bring results that make everyone think differently.
On the show last year I talked to Neil Morrison the Group HRD of Penguin Random House about an experimental entry level recruitment programme his team were running know as The Scheme. One year on The Scheme has been so successful Penguin Random House are running it again and I was keen to catch up with Neil to find out what they had learned.
In the interview we discuss:
• What it is like to run a recruitment process with no CVs or insight into the background of the candidates
• Why Penguin Random House have now dropped the requirement to have a degree from all of their roles
• Things they learned from the Scheme last year and what they are doing differently in 2016
• How they are using Snap Chat as a platform to promote this year’s programme.
Neil also gives us his thoughts on the future of graduate recruitment and some advice for any employers thinking of having their own version of The Scheme.
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Ep 47: A Practitioner's View On The Future Of Recruiting Mar 16, 2016

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This week sees the return of one most popular guests I’ve had in the 47 episode history of The Recruiting Future Podcast.
Matt Buckland joined me for Episode 11 of the show last year when he was working for Forward Partners and shared his thoughts recruiting tech talent. It’s almost a year on and Matt is now Head of Talent and Fashion Tech company Lyst. He also recently appeared as the resident recruitment expert on “Who’s The Boss” the BBC TV series which experimented with the concept of “collaborative hiring”

In the interview we discuss:
• The likely future of recruitment
• The advantages and pitfalls of collaborative hiring
• Why recruitment technology can be a bad thing
• Snapchat and its relevance to recruiting
• The role of LinkedIn and Job Boards
• Recruiters v Marketeers
Matt also shares what he considers to be the most important skills a good in house recruiter needs and tells us about the book he is currently reading….
Links to things we talk about:
Matt’s previous podcast interview
BBC2’s Here Comes the Boss
The Lyst recruiting analytics podcast episode

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Ep 46: Talent Analytics At Cisco Mar 10, 2016

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Data Analytics is something that has been growing in importance within Talent Acquisition for the last few years. Most companies are just starting out on their journey with data but there are some who are now sophisticated enough to benefit from a more predictive and data-driven talent acquisition mindset.
One of these pioneers in this area is Cisco and my guest this week is Ian Bailie their Global Head of Talent Acquisition Operations.
In the interview we discuss:
• How Cisco and built and scaled an in house talent trends division
• The key performance metrics they measure and how this is evolving
• What they have learnt from the data and what has surprised them
• The move towards to predictive analytics and how Talent Acquisition is able to influence higher level decisions in the wider business
Ian also talks about the plans for the future and gives his tips on how to get started with talent analytics
Thanks to HR Tech World for helping to organize the interview
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Ep 45: Social Media For Employer Branding Done Brilliantly Mar 04, 2016

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Based on what I see during my work as a consultant it is fair to say that most employers are still struggling to use social media effectively for recruiting. Even the concept of using it as a key platform for Employer Branding and Employee Engagement seems like an impossible dream to many. However as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn embed themselves further into everyone’s lives all companies will have to think differently about the methods they use to attract, recruit and retain talent.
My guest this week is someone who is a genuine pioneer round social engagement in the talent space. Chris Ebbeler is Director of Workplace Community for Chili’s, a company who are embracing social media in a way that is just brilliant.
In the interview we discuss:
• How Chris got both his job and buy in from his leadership team to do what he does
• How Chili’s have used social media to shift deeply held brand perceptions and are now considered a great place to work
• Why their employees are at the heart of what they do on social and the great ways they have driven authentic user generated content from their global work force of 80,000 people
• A completely different way of thinking about the role of corporate Careers Sites
• The importance of Instagram in their social strategy
Chris also talks about the way they measure results, the importance of a selfie with the COO and how he sees their approach to social media developing over the next 18 months
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Ep 44: Innovating To Improve the Candidate Experience Feb 25, 2016

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When it comes to innovation in recruitment marketing and the candidate experience it is very important to never believe the hype. Once you cut through the buzzwords and considerable self-interest promoting spin it becomes clear that driving change and embracing new technologies is something a lot employers find very difficult.
My research has shown me that one of keys to success when it comes to innovation lies in experimentation, testing and iteration. My guest for this episode of the podcast is someone who successful uses this approach to drive change. Heather Tinguely is Senior Program Manager of Innovation Incubation and Candidate Experience at Microsoft.
In the interview we discuss:
• How beta testing ideas can engage stakeholders and win budgets
• Why the candidate experience is so important to Microsoft
• Innovations for the “day of interview”
• The evolution of the careers site and the relationship between content and candidate experience
• The critical importance of being mobile first to avoid the big problem with responsive design
• Personalisation based on candidate profiles
Heather also tells us what she has her eye on in terms of future trends and technologies
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Ep 43: A Blueprint for Digital Transformation Feb 19, 2016

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Digital Transformation is a key issue that all businesses will need to address in the next few years. It is likely to have a fundamental effect on HR and Recruiting and I really surprised that there are still such low levels of awareness round the concept among HR and Recruiting professionals.
My guest for this episode is Douglas Shirlaw Chief Digital Officer of The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities or (COSLA). Douglas has many years of front line experience in digital transformation and leads COSLA’s initiatives to digitise public sector recruitment in Scotland.
COSLA’s award winning jobs platform myjobscotland is hugely successful and continues to develop to keep pace with evolving technologies and increasing user expectations.
• In the interview we discuss:
• The challenges involved in developing myjobscotland
• The implications of having over 50% of the site’s audience accessing from mobiles and tablets
• The rise and importance of “customer experience first” thinking
• The ongoing clash between user expectations and current recruitment process realities
• The benefits of digital transformation and a workable model to implement it
Douglas also talks about changing attitudes to privacy and gives us his vision for the future of recruitment platforms
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Ep 42: How In House Recruiting Leaders Can Drive Change Feb 12, 2016

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We live in changing times and change is certainly being felt in the recruitment industry at the moment. Technology is changing, communication is changing, candidate expectations are changing and for many employers the talent landscape is growing ever more competitive. Strategically driving the systems and organisational change needed to keep up is big challenge for in house recruitment leaders.
My guest this week is Barry Flack . Barry has worked in senior HR and recruiting leadership positions within a number of fast changing industries.
In the interview we discuss:
• How organisations need to get on the front foot with their recruiting strategies and stop being reactive
• The reason why many employers are stuck with legacy “record keeping” recruitment technology.
• The importance of embracing technology that improves user experience, candidate experience and enables proactive sourcing
• Ways in which recruitment leaders can drive the strategic change needed within their organisations.
Barry also gives us his view on the key trends to watch in the future
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Ep 41: What Is The Future Of Work? Feb 04, 2016

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Matt Alder talks to Kevin Wheeler

Speculating about the future of work is a very popular past time at the moment. This should be no surprise considering the disruptive times we are living through. However I find it very frustrating that there is a distinct lack of sensible debate and discussion about the actual implications of these changes.
My guest this week is Kevin Wheeler. Kevin is a Silicon Valley based futurist with a global outlook who specializes in the future of work and talent. We were both contributors to the same book on the Future of Business last year and I have a lot of respect for Kevin’s work and views.
In the interview we discuss what the future of work is likely to look like in the short, medium and long term. Topics we cover include:
• The debate round the rise of the contingent workforce
• The growth of generalists
• Jobs we currently take for granted which will disappear or shrink in volume with the growth of automation.
• The future role of humans at work
• The importance of creativity in the future workforce
Kevin also shares his opinion on the future of HR and identifies what he sees as the most importantly technology trend for the future of recruitment.
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Ep 40: Lessons To Learn From Sales And Marketing Jan 28, 2016

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The mantra that in house recruiters need to behave more like marketeers is an often-repeated one. Like many recruitment truism it is easy to say but more difficult to justify and even more difficult to describe how it should actually work.
My guest this week is Ted Elliott CEO of Jobscience. Ted has spend the last 16 years building tools that help recruiters adopt key disciplines from sales and marketing to help them operate in competitive talent markets
In the interview we discuss:
• The concept of Blue Ocean strategy
• Increasing competition in global talent markets
• The importance of micro marketing instead of mass marketing
• Why just in time recruiting is vital in meeting hiring manager expectations
• Why corporate recruiters have an impossible task in 2016 and need to think differently.
Ted also and highlights the employers he feels are successfully implementing sales and marketing best practices for recruiting and explains why Jobscience is built on the Salesforce platform.

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Ep 39: Recruiting Where The Rubber Meets The Road Jan 21, 2016

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For the podcast this year I’m committed to searching far and wide for the most interesting stories and ideas in recruiting and HR. Change is now a constant in our world and the people who are prepared to strike out from the norm and experiment are the ones driving innovation. My guest this week is a brilliant example of what is possible when you think about things differently.
Larry Hernandez is currently a Talent Scout for ThoughtWorks having formerly worked for both Rackspace and Zappos. By working while driving round America in an “RV” he is bringing a whole new meaning to mobile recruiting.
In the interview we discuss:
• Why Larry choose his unique approach to work life balance
• What it is like to source and recruit on the road
• How his alternative lifestyle is helping build connections with candidates
• His experiences of working in the unique culture at Zappos where his team were the beta test for the much talked about move to holocracy.
Larry also talks about recruiting innovation and his predictions for where things are going (including him and his RV!) in 2016
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