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

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When I first started this show as a fun side project, I had no real expectations of getting much of an audience. I could never have anticipated that four years and three-quarters of a million listens later I'd be publishing my 200th episode.

I want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported me and the show. My superb guests, my fabulous sponsors and most of all, everyone who has listened, subscribed, recommended, shared and given me feedback. The story doesn't end here, I've got some big plans for the future and as some fantastic guests lined up for the coming months.

What better way to celebrate 200 episodes than with a live recording of the show. A few weeks back, I was on stage at the excellent RecFest event in London, and we recorded a live panel discussion on Recruiting Automation.

My guests were:

• Megan Butler from CognitionX

• Ben Gledhill from Yodel

• Andrew Soane from Accenture

The discussion was wide-ranging with lots of insights and experiences shared

Thanks to SurveyMonkey for supporting this episode, I highly recommend signing up for their online Curiosity Conference, more details here

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Candidate experience is a topic we've covered time and time again on this podcast, mainly by looking at employers who are innovating in this area. It is clear though that delivering even an acceptable level of candidate experience is still problematic for most companies. So what is the current state of the candidate experience and what can employers be doing to get a competitive advantage?

My guests this week are Martin Dangerfield and Neil Harrison, both of whom are well known consultants in talent acquisition. They have recently collaborated on a piece of research that collected candidate experience insights from a variety of employers

In the interview we discuss:

• The importance of candidate experience in the current labour market

• Where does candidate experience start and end

• Who owns the candidate experience

• Key moments of truth

• The increasing importance of review sites

• The relationship between talent acquisition and hiring managers

• Data, measurement and the importance of optimisation

• Getting competitive advantage.

You can find the full report here.

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With talent acquisition continuously changing and evolving, making sure your recruiters have the right skills is critical for employer hiring success. But what are the skills needed, what should recruiters be doing develop them, and how should their employers be supporting this process?

My guest this week is Rachel Dalboth Strategy and Capability Director for the Forum For In House Recruitment Managers, otherwise known as The Firm. The Firm is a collaborative support community for in house recruiters and has recently done several very interesting research projects around recruiter capability.

In the interview we discuss:

• The FIRM and its work

• The definition of recruiter capability

• The critical skills in house recruiters need in 2019 and how they currently measure up against them.

• When confidence is overconfidence

• Typical areas for development

• How the growth of technology is changing the type of skills which are needed

Rachel also shares what she is seeing the best employers doing to build capability and gives more details on how companies can get involved with The Firm.

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