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

The events of 2020 are accelerating recruiting automation at a pace none of us could have previously predicted. One of the problems with the current approaches to automation in talent acquisition is that things tend to be vendor lead, and finding a vendor who fully aligned to all of your needs can be a challenge.

In Episode 283, I discussed the importance of building a strategy for automation and having a helicopter view of all of the elements. However, it is only possible for TA Leaders to take that helicopter view if they have an understanding of the critical building blocks of automation.

My guest this week is Leigh Pullen, Co-Founder and CEO at CiGen a Robotic Process Automation services company based in Melbourne Australia. Robotic Process Automation or RPA as it is better known is something everyone in talent acquisition needs to understand.

In the interview, we discuss:

   •   What is Robotic Process Automation?

   •   Current HR use cases for RPA

   •   Combining RPA with Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence

   •   Humans vs Robots

   •   What will RPA make possible in the future

   •   The impact on jobs

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Executive recruiting has always been seen as somewhat separate to the rest of talent acquisition. Search firms have traditionally dominated the market, and digital transformation in this area has historically been very slow. However, a growing number of employers now have their own in house executive recruiting functions and the COVID 19 pandemic is changing everything.

My guest this week is Adriana Quevedo, Director of Executive Search and On-Boarding at Intel. Adriana has spent the last eight years helping to develop in house executive recruiting at Intel and has some great insights and advice to share.

In the interview with discuss:

   •   The challenges of executive recruiting

   •   How Intel's in house function has evolved, and the lessons learnt

   •   Advice on setting up an in house function

   •   The importance of benchmarking and networking with industry peers

   •   Dramatically reducing reliance on search firms.

   •   Combining science and art to secure the right hires

   •   How COVID 19 is effecting executive recruiting and onboarding

   •   Providing a white glove experience virtually

   •   Diversity and Inclusion

   •   What's next for executive recruiting at Intel

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Since the start of the pandemic unemployment is rising all over the world at an unprecedented rate. Even if the labour market does bounce back quickly, things are likely to look very different with many industries currently going through an accelerated digital transformation.

So what can be done to address the increasingly urgent issue of employability, how should employers be thinking about talent and are there any lessons that we can learn from the previous economic crisis?

My guest this week is Colin Donnery, Director at Turas Nua, Ireland's leading provider of employability services which has helped over 40,000 people back into the workforce in the last four years.

In the interview, we discuss: :

   •   How the current crisis is different for jobs than previous recessions

   •   The impact of AI and automation on labour markets

   •   The disproportionate effect on young people

   •   Tools and techniques to get people back to work

   •   Skills for the new economy

   •   Digitising advocacy and guidance and the importance of human interventions

   •   How employers need to change their thinking to access valuable pools of talent

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We're at the halfway point of 2020, and it's clear we are at the starting point of a period of significant change in talent acquisition the speed of which none of us would have predicted six months ago. It's also evident that Recruiting Automation is one of the critical pillars of this change.

I've always felt that as an industry we've had a very head in the sand attitude to automation and debate has been overly focused on specific tools and minor details. That has to change, and we have to look at automation from a strategic perspective.

At the recent TA Global Gathering digital conference, I delivered a presentation on recruiting automation strategy, and I'm really pleased to able to publish the audio from that presentation as this episode of the podcast.

Key points I cover:

• The rise of intelligent recruiting

• Why automation is so important right now

• What can, should and actually is being automated

• The potential for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in talent acquisition

• The importance of strategic thinking from TA leaders

• Five fundamental questions to address

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Content marketing and its critical role in recruitment marketing and employer branding is a topic very close to my heart and something we have covered many times on the podcast. One of the most challenging aspects for any talent acquisition content strategy is often generating the content itself. So how can employers be effective at content marketing in a time of shrinking budgets and smaller teams?

My guest this week is Anthony Jones, Global Head of Talent Brand at Rockwell Automation. Over the last two years, Anthony has built in house content creation and digital marketing capability to address Rockwell Automation's recruiting challenges. He has some excellent insights and advice to share.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The recruiting challenges at Rockwell Automation

• The approach to Talent Branding

• Standing out in the places that matter by using content to get attention.

• Building capability to produce unique content

• The importance of specialists in talent acquisition and the key skills required

• Types of content and the importance of doing things differently

• Why authenticity is critical

• The role of technology

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We are currently living through a period of time where assessment that's based on skills and potential has never been more critical. As the economic crisis plays out, employers need to understand the skills base within their workforces to drive mobility and enable redeployment. At the same time, correctly understanding the transferable skills of available talent will help companies make some fantastic hires.

Unfortunately, though recruiting is still dominated by a reliance on resumes and other outdated practices. So how might this be changed and how can technology help to drive our industry forward.

My guest this week is Todd Raphael from Eightfold. Todd has been studying and writing about the talent acquisition for over 20 years and has some great insights to share about skills-based recruiting.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The most significant developments in talent acquisition in the last ten years

• Outdated recruiting methods

• The benefits of skilled, focused hiring

• Transferable skills in an economic crisis

• Redeployment to prevent layoffs

• The role of AI

• Innovating to improve internal mobility

• Mitigating bias

• The future potential of intelligent automation

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Over the past ten years, I've been on judging panels for many different industry awards. This is something that has really helped me appreciate the role business awards play in driving our industry forward by showcasing and celebrating great work.

That's the reason I'm working with the Stevies to promote their awards for Great Employers. To tell us more about the categories and the judging my guest this week is Michael Gallagher, Executive Chairman and Founder of The Stevie Awards.

Michael also talks about the reason he set up the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, discusses some of the previous winners and shares details about the special awards they have introduced to recognise HR's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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 271: Finding and Nurturing Culture

Ep 272: Momentum

Ep 273: Reimagining Talent Acquisition

Ep 274: Motivation and Resilience

Ep 275: Accelerating Digital Transformation

Ep 276: The Future of Recruiting Technology

Ep 277: 2020 And Beyond

Ep 278: Early Careers Disrupted

Ep 279: The Future Of The Workplace

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With such a large proportion of the global workforce currently working from home, it's now clear that the offices and workspaces that people eventually return to are going to be very different. So what does the future of the workplace look like and what part will it play in attracting and retaining top talent?

My guest this week is Ash Hanson, SVP of Human Resources at Aramark. Aramark provides facilities, food and uniforms to employers across 19 countries and is at the cutting edge of the changes we are currently seeing in workplaces all around the world.

In the interview, we discuss:

• The changes Covid-19 is driving for Aramark

• How hospitality companies are becoming safety companies with a hospitality focus

• The importance of effective employee communication

• How Aramark recruit and retain top talent

• The importance of workspace to employer brand

• What's next for Aramark

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In the last few months, college recruiting and internship programs have been refocused, scaled back and in many cases cancelled. Internships have become digital internships, and on-campus, hiring has gone virtual. So what are the long term implications for early careers and how are companies reimagining their future talent strategies?

My guest this week is Dawn Carter, Director of Global University Recruiting at Uber. In our conversation, Dawn talks about the effect of the pandemic on Uber's internship programs and campus recruiting activity and also share her thoughts on what the future of early careers recruiting might look like.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Uber's approach to university recruiting and how it is changing

• Moving to digital internships

• Changing student attitudes to university study

• Market realities

• Reimagining on-campus events

• Differentiating employer brand

• Can high tech also be high touch?

• Moving from talent acquisition to talent marketplaces and long term talent engagement.

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