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

The idea of a TA Tech stack has gone mainstream very quickly. It makes perfect sense as employers look to have fit for purpose technology to support all elements of their talent acquisition strategy. While integration is a lot easier than it was a few years ago, there are still significant challenges that TA leaders need to understand and prepare for. So what are the key issues?

My guest this week is the perfect person to talk us through the current market situation and provide some practical advice. Peter Gold has been working in the ATS market since day one and has a vast amount of knowledge and experience to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   The current state of the ATS market

   ▪   The key integration issues

   ▪   Asking for evidence of integrations

   ▪   Marketplaces

   ▪   Marketing spin versus implementation reality

   ▪   Challenges in volume

   ▪   AI, humans and automation

   ▪   Advice for TA Leaders

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Building and engaging with talent pipelines has been something we have been discussing for years, but it has always surprised that there are so few employers who do it well and even fewer that do it over extended periods. Technology, recruiting and communication have evolved significantly over the last two years, opening up opportunities for companies to devise very sophisticated pipelining and engagement strategies to help address resourcing challenges such as diversity hiring and skill shortages.

So who is doing this well, and how are they doing it?

My guest this week is Jason Boone, Diversity & Military Outreach Leader at Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin has a long-term talent pipeline strategy that sees them engage some communities of talent for 3 to 8 years before hiring.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   The recruiting challenges at Lockheed Martin

   ▪   Investing in the emerging workforce

   ▪   Long term engagement strategies to increase diversity

   ▪   The role of time and touchpoints in building the brand, creating relationships, driving efficiency and improving offer acceptance

   ▪   Content strategies

   ▪   Time focused candidate-centric resources.

   ▪   The most surprising hiring success

   ▪   The role of technology

   ▪   Pushing talent across the enterprise

   ▪   Mashing up strategies and technologies

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Back in April, I ran a live podcast conference on the future of talent acquisition in partnership with the team at TA Tech. We had ten excellent speakers across five topic sessions, and I'm delighted to now be able to bring you the content to you as a series of podcasts. I'm releasing these every Friday for the next few weeks, so if you don't want to miss them, make sure you have subscribed to the show.

Following on from the Recruitment Marketing session last week, this week's release is the panel debate on Recruitment Advertising. My highly knowledgeable guests were Ellie Harte, Recruitment Partner Talent Attraction from Atkins and KJ, CEO of Joveo.

We are at a real inflection point with recruitment advertising now, and this discussion will give you some clear insights into the strategies and technologies that will shape the future.

In the conversation, we discuss:

   ▪   The current state of the market

   ▪   Shortening attention spans and changing media consumption habits

   ▪   The imbalance between supply and demand

   ▪   How can employers stand out

   ▪   Outcome-based advertising

   ▪   Data and predictive analytics

   ▪   Understanding target audience and segmentation

   ▪   Testing messaging

   ▪   The power of authentic content

   ▪   Automation

   ▪   What future shifts can we expect to see?

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There is currently daily speculation about what the future of work will now look like and how employees might be feeling about it. Rather than trading in speculation and assumptions, I wanted to bring you some proper data to help us find out what is actually happening.

With that in mind, my guest this week is Jon Wilson, CEO of Totaljobs. Every year Totaljobs work with their international partners in The Network in conjunction with Boston Consulting to produce the largest survey of employees and job seekers in the world. The latest research is built on data gathered from over 200,000 respondents across 190 countries and looks at the pandemic's impact on employment preferences and global talent mobility trends.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   The methodology behind the research

   ▪   Remote work and whether employees expect it to continue

   ▪   The advantages and implications of remote work across borders

   ▪   Employee experience, what is important to people now

   ▪   DE&I

   ▪   Sustainability and environmental issues

   ▪   Reskilling and career changes

   ▪   What happens next

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The last 12 months have been transformational for recruiting technology, with both employers and vendors having to adapt very quickly to the new market realities. So what does the technology landscape now look like in talent acquisition, what are the key trends and what do we need to keep an eye for the future.

My guest this week is David Wilson, CEO of industry analysts Fosway Group. Fosway. as ever, have been watching the market closely and have just released an updated version of their influential 9 Box Grid on TA technology. Keep listening to hear David's insights on how technology has evolved in the last 12 months and where it is going.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   The 9 Box Grid methodology and the type of vendors included

   ▪   How vendors have responded to the pandemic

   ▪   The pandemic as a catalyst for change in TA technology

   ▪   The ATS, CRM, TRM evolution

   ▪   Talent mobility and talent marketplaces

   ▪   Room for improvement in data analytics

   ▪   What will the next 12 months look like

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Back in April, I ran a live podcast conference on the future of talent acquisition in partnership with the team at TA Tech. We had ten excellent speakers across five topic sessions, and I'm delighted to now be able to bring the content to you as a series of podcasts. I'll be releasing these every Friday for the next five weeks, so if you don't want to miss them, make sure you have subscribed to the show.

First up is our session on the future recruitment marketing featuring Allyn Bailey from Intel and Chris Forman from Appcast. This was a really lively debate with a big focus on the current inversion we are seeing in the talent market and the transformative effect it is likely to have on recruitment marketing.

In the conversation, we discuss:

   ▪   The inverted job market and the change it might drive in recruitment marketing.

   ▪   What is driving the change in job seeker behaviour?

   ▪   A critical need to think differently

   ▪   Precision targeting and segmentation

   ▪   Recruitment marketers need to be technology wizards.

   ▪   The rise of the dedicated recruitment marketing function

   ▪   Autonomous matching

   ▪   What recruitment marketing will look like in two years

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Virtual communication has been the mainstay for all of us for nearly 18 months now. As employers consider how they will work post-pandemic, the debate about what stays virtual in the future is going to dominate the next few months. There is always lots of discussion about the negative aspects of endless Zoom or Teams calls, but what would we lose if we return to our old ways of working?

To help provide some perspective on this, I have a very special guest. Jackie Weaver became an instant celebrity after a Zoom recording of a chaotic meeting of Handforth Parish Council went viral. As well as cheering us all up during a very long miserable locked down winter, Jackie has used her platform to champion the work of town and parish councils and increase the diversity of their membership. There are some interesting parallels for employers here, and Jackie most definitely does have the authority.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   That Zoom meeting and instant global internet fame

   ▪   The positives of virtual communication

   ▪   Engaging with diverse audiences through virtual platforms

   ▪   Inclusivity and accessibility

   ▪   Virtual, face to face and hybrid

   ▪   What can employers learn from what is now happening to parish and town council meetings?

   ▪   What Jackie Weaver is doing next

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The challenges for recruiting in hospitality at the moment are unprecedented both in the US and the UK. The jobs market has inverted, and there are currently many more roles than there are people searching for jobs. The extent of this imbalance has taken the industry by surprise and put many companies on the back foot and struggling to reopen fully. So what can employers do to get the talent they need, not just in the hospitality industry but also in other sectors where talent is in short supply.

My guest this week is Brandon Batt, Director of People at Savory Restaurant Fund. Savory has several restaurant brands and is being very successful at staffing them despite the current talent market crisis.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   The current challenges in the hospitality industry

   ▪   An unprecedented imbalance in supply and demand

   ▪   The importance of thinking creatively

   ▪   Focusing on the fundamentals of culture

   ▪   What is important to employees

   ▪   Telling employee stories and reflecting the EVP

   ▪   Equipping employees with the right tools for referrals

   ▪   Using recruiting technology to its full extent

   ▪   Thinking outside of the ATS

   ▪   Communicating with candidates in their chosen channels.

   ▪   What does the future look like for recruiting?

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Health and wellbeing are now front and centre of the employee experience and fast becoming a critical factor in talent acquisition and retention.

This is especially true in the retail industry, whose employees have had to face massive amounts of uncertainty during the pandemic and genuine concerns about their personal safety.

Next week retail industry charity retailTRUST is holding an online event to champion the health and wellbeing of the retail workforce following the reopening of non-essential shops across the UK. As part of the build-up to the event, I spoke to Chris Brook-Carter, CEO of retailTRUST and Louise Stonier, Chief People Officer at Pets at Home, about the renewed focus on health and wellbeing in the employee experience.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   The work of retailTRUST and how it has been supporting the industry during the pandemic

   ▪   What is essential to retail employees right now

   ▪   The vital importance of transparent and clear communication

   ▪   Building a coalition of employers to champion health within the sector

   ▪   Retail as a post-pandemic force for good

   ▪   How health and wellbeing are now critical for talent acquisition and retention

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It's becoming increasingly clear to me from the conversations I'm having with talent acquisition professionals worldwide that what happens in the coming months will set a course for a wholesale transformation of our industry. Talent markets are changing, technology is changing, employers are changing, and the very nature of work itself is changing.

So how do we navigate these disruptive times? My guest this week is Joe Mullings, Chairman and CEO of the Mullings Groups of Companies. Joe has some very strong and very well informed opinions on what the future looks like for talent acquisition. Take a listen to our conversation, and I would love to know whether you agree or disagree with him.

In the interview, we discuss:

   ▪   What happens next?

   ▪   The challenges of the hybrid workforce

   ▪   Disruptive forces in the talent market

   ▪   Building a hiring brand

   ▪   The golden age of recruiting

   ▪   The difference between HR and Talent Acquisition

   ▪   Who has the leverage?

   ▪   Talent Acquisition versus Talent Access

   ▪   Advice for Talent Acquisition and HR professionals

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