Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring? – Details, episodes & analysis

Round Up is the monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from the guests. Episodes mentioned in this Round Up: Ep 631: Science, AI & Assessment Ep 632: Attracting, Retaining, and Empowering Gen Z Talent Ep 633: The Strategic Importance Of Wellbeing Ep 634: Work Before Talent Ep 635: Transform Talent Acquisition Ep 636: Hiring & Retaining Innovators Ep 637: Reinventing The ATS For A New Era Ep 638: Reskilling For AI Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts

It’s been a tough couple of years for Talent Acquisition. There was a time during the post-pandemic hiring wave when companies were struggling to recruit enough recruiters. Now, the situation is the polar opposite, with TA teams shrinking and many recruiters being laid off. In such economically uncertain times, it’s difficult to determine whether AI is starting to be a factor that impacts jobs in TA. However, based on current adoption rates, it’s probably fair to say that AI is still only a minor contributor to the overall situation. But this is quickly going to change. As employers start to look at transforming TA over the longer term, AI and automation will inevitably play a significant role in shaping the TA teams of the future. This raises important questions about job displacement and reskilling. These are not just questions that AI raises for TA; they are questions that span the entire organization, with a strong likelihood that all jobs will be impacted in some way. So, how can employers prepare their workforce for these impending changes, and what is the likely split between job replacement, job enhancement, and job creation? My guest this week is Kamal Ahluwalia, President of Ikigai Labs and former President of Eightfold AI. Kamal has extremely well-informed insights on AI’s impact on jobs and skills and valuable advice for employers and employees. In the interview, we discuss: The impact of AI on work and jobs Jobs eliminated, jobs changed, jobs created Building scenarios for the future The critical importance of data How should employers be responding What is the role of HR and TA? Evolving processes to meet new objectives Reskilling and upskilling How do employers encourage people to learn new skills? What will work be like in five years? Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

Get my free whitepaper "10 Ways AI Will Transform Talent Acquisition" – Download Now  Transform Talent Acquisition – Find out how my digital course will help you shape the future of talent acquisition in your organization – Click Here One key aspect of any journey to becoming a skills-based organization is having effective skills assessment strategies in place. This doesn't just apply to hiring and leadership development. Some of the most cutting-edge organizations are using assessment as part of the onboarding process to help understand the development needs of new employees. My guest this week is Simone Jacobi, Global Director of Talent Assessment at McKinsey. In our conversation, Simone talks about how McKinsey is gratifying assessments in its journey toward becoming a skills-based organization.  In the interview, we discuss: What do skills mean at McKinsey? How McKinsey's talent acquisition process is evolving Broadening talent sources The advantages of gamifying assessment Onboarding and "Day One Readiness" assessments to help people become productive as quickly as possible Using Gen AI to Personalize Assessments Building individual skills profiles and mapping up skills development Reducing bias and using "Fairness Observers" when making people decisions What are the most essential skills for the future? Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

If you have been listening to the recent episodes of the show, you'll have noticed the considerable amount of innovation currently happening in high-volume hiring. Driven by skill shortages and automation technology, high volume is the area that has given us an insight into what the future might be like for talent acquisition. In episodes 551 and 552, I'm diving deeper into automation and AI in high-volume hiring by speaking to technology CEOs with products that are helping to shape the future.  My second guest in this mini-series is Max Armbruster, CEO at Talkpush. Max does extensive work around high-volume hiring in Latin America and Asia. Technology is driving innovation for different reasons in these markets than in the US and Europe, and Max has some deep insights into how hiring is developing and where things are heading. In the interview, we discuss: The hiring market beyond the US and Europe Automation to reduce recruiter numbers and broaden talent pools Emerging markets and future economic powerhouses Cost per hire How AI improves the quality of hire The impact of the accessibility and affordability of AI Communication channels and candidate experience Developing local toolkits Advice to employers hiring remotely in these markets What's the future for recruiters? Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

If you have been listening to the recent episodes of the show, you'll have noticed the considerable amount of innovation currently happening in high-volume hiring. Driven by skill shortages and automation technology, high volume is the area that has given us an insight into what the future might be like for talent acquisition. Over the next two episodes, I will dive deeper into automation and AI in high-volume hiring by speaking to technology CEOs with products that are helping to shape the future.  My first guest is Stephane Rivard, CEO and Co-Founder of Hiring Branch. Several Hiring Branch's customers have used technology to move away from human interviews completely. Stephane talks us through the results they are getting and the implications for the future of talent acquisition. In the interview, we discuss: Is recruiting automation gaining traction? Predicting job performance via scenario-driven assessment Previewing the work and showcasing skills Removing bias Will this approach spread beyond high volume? Hiring within 24 hours Selling the role and organization Improving the quality of hire Resources, efficiencies, budgets, legislation and regulation Recruiter career prospects and advice to TA leaders Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts.

Attitudes to work are more complex and varied than ever, making identifying trends and patterns harder. There are currently critical questions around retention and productivity that employers need to understand. So, how can we make sense of our ever more complex motivational drivers and attitudes to work? ADP have access to massive human capital management datasets, and by combining this data with qualitative research, the ADP Research Institute is helping to shine a light on complex questions about work. ADP Research Institute has recently launched a new quarterly workforce report called Today At Work, and my guest this week is Ben Hanowell, their Director of People Analytics Research. As well as looking at patterns in worker sentiment, the report has revealed a surprising inverse relationship between promotion and retention. In the interview, we discuss: Using data to make sense of the labor market The vital importance of retention The Employee Motivation and Commitment Index The impact of promotion on retention Implications for talent acquisition Why having a good bench is important Individual contributors vs. manager Why career development doesn't end with promotion Motivation and commitment are a state, not a trait. Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcast.

The way we describe work and jobs is mostly by long-standing assumptions that have been in place since the Industrial Revolution. The world is now a very different place, and the employers breaking free of our ingrained mindsets around jobs and recruiting are giving themselves considerable talent market advantage. My guest this week is one of my favourite thinkers around the reinvention of work. Dart Lindsley is Strategic Advisor for People Experience at Google. Dart believes that rather than being seen as resources or units of production, employees are actually customers of a product we call work. There are some vast implications for talent acquisition here, and this is a must-listen for anyone developing a strategic plan for the future. In the interview, we discuss: How we should be looking at work The legacies of the industrial age A multi-sided business Business architecture Employees as customers, not as units of production The implications for HR Bringing marketing thinking to HR Market research, product market fit and route to market Work as a subscription model A land and expand sales motion Job to be done theory How do recruitment marketing and employer branding need to evolve A different data model for describing work The implications of AI What does the future look like? Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

We've featured several employers on the show with recruiting strategies focusing on hiring people with criminal histories. All of these employers have spoken about the benefits for the people they hire, the benefits they get from reaching new talent pools, and the benefits for society as a whole.  Despite this growing list of case studies, several misconceptions about hiring people who have been involved with the criminal justice system are holding many employers back. My guest this week is Shawn Bushway, a professor at the University at Albany and a researcher at RAND Corporation. Shawn has built a body of research on the impact of criminal background checks on employment, and his work informed the current standards of the EEOC. He now helps employers revise their background check policies to better reflect the science about re-offending and become compliant with EEOC guidance. In the interview, we discuss: How background checks have evolved Ban the box How the tightness of the labor market dictates employers' attitudes Common misconceptions The myth around recidivism Overestimating the level of risk Why crime type is irrelevant Making factually informed decisions Avoiding false positives Age, time, and number The role of government in creating practical, useable incentives to hire people with criminal histories Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts

It has been an extraordinary year for technology. We can all broadly agree that the effect of generative AI will be transformational for talent acquisition, but how can we separate the hype from the reality to know where to focus in the short term and how to plan for a much-changed future? With so much noise and minimal signal in the discussion about AI, I thought the best way to get a grip on everything was to talk to a genuine AI thought leader. My guest this week is Jon Krohn, host of the SuperDataScience Podcast, Best Selling Author, and Chief Data Scientist at TA start-up Nebula. Jon was on the show back in 2019 and gave us a primer on AI that was so good people are still listening to now. This time, he is doing a deep dive into generative AI, giving us some history, explaining the current reality, and outlining the radical potential for the future. This conversation was eye-opening for me, and it is a compulsory listen for everyone working in Talent Acquisition. In the interview, we discuss: Developments in AI over the last three years Hype v Impact The development of the transformer architecture that facilitates ChatGPT Why the jump from ChatGPT 3.5 to ChatGPT 4 was incredibly significant Is artificial general intelligence possible in our lifetimes? Other notable examples of Large Language Models The immediate implications for Talent Acquisition How LLMs will supercharge vendor innovation The importance of TA Leaders embracing AI Are we heading towards a utopia or a dystopia? Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts. A full transcript will appear here shortly.

Round up is the monthly show on The Recruiting Future Podcast channel that highlights episodes you may have missed and gives you my take on some of the key learnings from the guests. This Round Up episode also features a short interview with Clive Meyers, Director of Public Sector Strategy at Indeed, talking about some up coming events to support refugees across Europe Episode mentioned in this Round Up: Ep 537: Strategic Workforce Planning Ep 538: The Rise Of Short-Form Video Ep 539: Building TA Technology Strategies Ep 540: AI & Recruitment Marketing Ep 541: The Skills-Based Revolution Ep 542: Building A Global TA Strategy Ep 543: Hiring At Speed And Scale Ep 544: Transforming TA Teams Ep 545: Using AI Strategically Ep 546: Transforming Frontline Hiring Listen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts