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

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 465: Curiosity At WorkEp 466: UNLEASH WorldEp 467: Automation & PersonalizationEp 468: Embracing NeurodiversityEp 469: TA Technology TransformationEp 470: Disability InclusionListen to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and with so much focus on DE&I in the workplace, this significant proportion of the population needs to be included and not overlooked.My guest this week is Dr Jennifer Luebke, Chief Workforce Inclusion Officer at PRIDE Industries. PRIDE Industries is a social enterprise creating sustainable career opportunities and training for people with disabilities, and Jennifer has some hugely valuable insights to share.In the interview, we discuss:The story of PRIDE IndustriesProjecting a welcoming attitude as an employerAccommodations and adjustmentsMisconceptions about hiring people with disabilitiesHow does disability inclusion fit into DE&I?The Advantages of employing people with disabilitiesNeurodiversity in the workforceHow to tap into new communities of talentMaking it safe to disclose non-apparent disabilitiesAdvice for employersA full transcription will appear here shortly.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

With recruiting challenges so acute and talent acquisition technology developing at such a great pace, tech stack adoption and transformation strategies are critical for many employers.So what are the key issues, and how are talent acquisition teams specializing and evolving to exploit new technologies and methodologies?My guest this week is Samantha Ramsay, Head of Experienced Hire UK&I at EY. I caught up with her a couple of weeks ago at UNLEASH World in Paris, where she was delivering a presentation about Tech Transformation.In the interview, we discuss:Current challenges in talent acquisitionDriving change in recruitingAsking five whys to get to the root cause of the problemBuilding stakeholder consensusWhat makes a great vendor/employer partnershipTalent intelligenceUsing CRMs in the right wayDeveloping specialist skills within TA functionsBuilding long term engagement and affinity with talent poolsWhat does the future look like?Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

One of the most encouraging aspects of our changing world work has been the number of employers actively seeking to recruit neurodiverse talent. However, it is estimated that 15-20% of the world's population is neurodivergent, and there is still a vast amount of work to do to ensure that our workplaces are inclusive for all and that employers benefit from supporting everyone to work to their full potential. My guest this week is Genie Love, an Executive Function Coach who works with neurodiverse professionals to help them achieve their personal and professional goals. In our conversation, she offers many practical insights into how employers can support their people at work.In the interview, we discuss:Understanding the unique strengths of neurodivergent peopleTime, attention, decision making, and organizationEnergy levels and strategies for deep workHow can employers be more inclusive?Re-imagining job descriptions and interviewsThe power of thinking differently Subscribe to this podcast in Apple Podcasts

Anyone who has seen me speak this year knows that I consider personalization the next big trend in talent acquisition. If they get their strategies right, the rapid growth in automation technologies allows employers to offer a bespoke candidate experience at scale. So which employers are doing this well, and what can we learn from them?My guest this week is Lisa Scales, Head of Talent Acquisition for the UK and Ireland at Nestle. In our wide-ranging conversation, recorded at UNLEASH World in Paris, Lisa talks us through Nestle's strategies around personalization and the results they're getting.In the interview, we discuss:The turbulent market and conflicting tensions for talent acquisitionScarcity of skillsRemoving repetitive transactional tasksUsing conversational AI to answer previously unanswered questionsThe power of personalizationThe time, place and wishlist for automationPersonalized onboardingWhy automated selection can amplify systemic biasMoments that matter, interesting technologies, and the deskless workforceWhat does the future look likeSubscribe to this podcast in Apple PodcastsA full transcription will appear here shortly.

One of the best things about 2022 is that face-to-face events are back. It's been a pleasure to connect with people in person again for the first time in a long time, and great to see such enthusiasm for face-to-face conferences and events after everything that has been happening in the last few years.Last week I was at UNLEASH World in Paris, and as well as hosting some fantastic speakers on the Talent and Recruiting stage, I did a lot of podcast recording. Thank you to Kate Graham, Marc Coleman and Jon Kennard at UNLEASH for organising a dedicated podcasting booth, which Recruiting Future shared with The Chad & Cheese Show and the Tech Talks podcast.I recorded long-form interviews with three speakers; Lisa Scales from Nestle, Charu Malhotra from PA Consulting and Samantha Ramsay from Ernst & Young. I'll be publishing these over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, I wanted to give you a taste of the event, so here are four short interviews to provide a flavour of the topics that are top of mind in the industry at the moment.First up, you'll hear me sharing my thoughts on the event in a recording made for The Chad and Cheese Show. Next is a conversation with my co-author and collaborator, Mervyn Dinnen, followed by fellow podcaster David Savage from Tech Talks. Finally, as a bit of a bonus, I've got a quick-fire discussion with Bas van de Hatred about the recently published 2022 edition of his annual research into the state of corporate careers sites.

Albert Einstein once said, "I have no special talent; I am only passionately curious". I like this quote so much that I use the phrase "Passionately Curious" as the tagline for my consulting business. So you can imagine my delight then when I came across a book on workplace curiosity written by Stefaan van Hooydonk, the founder of The Global Curiosity Institute, who is my guest this week.A former Chief Learning Officer, Stefaan has done some pioneering work on the science behind curiosity and why improving the skill of curiosity is essential in the modern world of work, both at an individual and organizational level. In the interview, we discuss:The story behind the Global Curiosity InstituteIntentional curiosityWhy and how you can train curiosityThe importance of curiosity to organizationsMeasuring curiosity on an individual and organizational basisCreating a curious cultureAwareness, Intentionality and MeasurementThe importance of learning something newListen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

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 458: Recruiting & Retention In The Current MarketEp 459: Underrepresented Communities of TalentEp 460: Equity & InclusionEp 461: Talent Acquisition RealitiesEp 462: What’s New In Candidate ExperienceEp 463: Fractional HiringEp 464: Optimization, Automation and AugmentationListen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts

As talent acquisition rapidly adapts to disruptive times, innovative ways of working and new technologies are being adopted at an unprecedented pace. So, where are the most successful TA teams focusing and what are the mindset shifts we are now seeing in the industry?My guest this week is Will Staney, founder of Proactive Talent and co-founder of industry community The Talent Brand Alliance. Will has a long history of innovation in talent acquisition and shares his insight into the short-term and long-term strategies the most successful TA teams are currently building.In the interview, we discuss:The current state of the marketStaying lean and nimble while adopting best practicesWhat are the most successful TA teams focusing onRetention, culture and brandWorking on short-term and long-term simultaneously Optimization, automation and augmentationAgile RPOThe rise of the gig economy in talent acquisitionGame-changing technologyThe link between employer branding, DE&I and profitHuman-centric recruiting and the future of talent acquisitionListen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.

With continuing skills shortages and massive disruption to how and where work is done, it is not surprising to see innovation as employers start to think differently about talent. Fractional hiring is rising and has some significant benefits to employers and employees. But what is it, how does it work, and how is it different from traditional interim and contract hiring?My guest this week is Matt Widdoes, CEO of Mavan. Mavan is a globally dispersed network of specialized former growth leaders at iconic tech brands working fractionally, and Matt has some unique insights to share on this growing trend.In the interview, we discuss:What is fractional hiring?Recruiting as the key to growthThe current state of the talent marketSpecialist talent as a resource that can be turned on and offBenefits for organizations and the implications for the career development of individualsThe mindset shift employers need to make to use fractional working successfully. Decentralized talent poolsThe kind of roles that can be fractionalHow is fractional different from interim and contract?What does the future of work look likeListen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts.