TaPod - We Talk Talent Acquisition.

This week on TaPod we sit down with John Bowker – GM People & Culture at Lycopodium to understand the recruitment market in West Australia and believe me… they do things a little different over there… Engineering, Mining, Oil and Gas are the predominant sectors in the market, and it’s extremely cyclical in terms of peaks and troughs. The peaks bring a lot of salary pressure and movement among workers, but Lycopodium have a few tricks to keep them ahead of the pack – and we invite you to learn their tricks right here on TaPod… 

Thanks to Avature for your support for the past two months. 

This week on TaPod we drop a special episode, getting under the hood of the recent Avature Upfront APAC 2025 in sunny Melbourne at the Royal Botanical Gardens, and it was fantastic! Raman Richards joins us as we unpack the day. From Chloe Dalton with a brilliant keynote, to the road map led by Dimitri Boylan & Xiabin Shi, to Maria Ma from Siemens, the panel of experts including Gareth Flynn, Sue Howse, Alex Thomson and Danielle Kent, Melinda Todd on mastering high-volume recruiting, Mark Condon on skills, AI & Work Design, the art of the possible presented by Evelyn Jackson, Scott Allen, Teejay Bui-Mata’afa and Joshua Vinden and product discussions involving Paula Lizardo and Roman Cunci. The day was MC’d beautifully by Adam Walker and the location was simply stunning! Kudos and sell your soul to get a ticket in 2026! 

Today on the Scoop it’s a BIG week and the team from TaPod brings you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news, including Global white collar roles on the decrease, Australian recruiters the best in the world, Kiwis value job security over pay, horrible...  horrible job interviews, bring a pet to work, both Lauren and Craig take a pot at Gen Z. And much, much more. 

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This week on TaPod we catch up with the ever-brilliant Hung Lee. The Recruiting Brainfood Founder has been traveling through South East Asia for the past couple of months and landed in Australia looking for a well-earned rest. Bad luck Hung. He’s running on fumes but still manages to blow us away with his take on the state of the world and the market. We talk AI and competitor advantage in recruitment and argue if we can really be positive about the future? It’s fascinating and relevant. 

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Today on the Scoop the team from TaPod brings you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news including Greenpeace bucking the trend on DEI initiatives, NSW Police raid other states to hit recruitment targets, rising turnover rates coming out of Asia, update on 4 day work week in Iceland, Gen Alpha to change the workplace forever. And much, much more 

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This week on TaPod we catch up with one of our favourite Kiwis, Keith Muirhead – Director of Talent Acquisition at Fonterra. We talk about how one of the biggest companies in NZ (responsible for 5% of the national GDP) transitioned from RPO to inhouse, covering all of the BIG transformation challenges, from tech to people and process. It’s a great blueprint for change; we learn how to 'make dairy sexy’ and we loved our discussion – you will too. 

Thanks to Avature for your continued support this month. 

Today on The Scoop the team from TaPod brings you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news, including Australia’s most equitable workplaces, the latest Trumpisms, achieving gender parity, Indeed at the World Economic Forum, Chinese firm wants to ban unmarried employees, Gen Z and career cat fishing and more events than you can poke a stick at. 

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This week on TaPod we delve into the far reaches of Employer Brand with Meagan Michaels, Head of EB APAC at BUPA. Fresh off her amazing panel at Indeed Futureworks, discussing remote/hybrid work arrangements. Beginning her career in book publishing, then moving to marketing before working in aviation, recruitment marketing, and finding her way to BUPA. We discuss all manner of Employer Branding and how the world may have changed in 2025. If you’re really lucky and listen closely, you just may be able to hear Meagan’s partner having a very important business meeting in the background… 

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It’s time for a TaPod special Episode and today we sit down with Trevor Vas, the only ever winner of a ‘Lifetime’ Internal Talent Award and one of the most brilliant minds in our industry. We touch on where our industry is headed, but more importantly we drill down on Trevor’s new concept – Aligned2Achieve. 

It’s an amazing gamified solution to help optimally position the TA function to help deliver desired business objectives. One of the hardest jobs for a TA Team is to identify the most relevant business goals to their function, Aligned2Achieve guides you through the entire process. At TaPod we were guided through a session and we love it. You will too! 

This week on The Scoop – your weekly Recruitment & TA news – we bring you all manner of updates including… are we really seeing the death of the resume? The latest Gender Pay Gap updates. Pay to apply. DEIB rolls back. Return to Office mandates. Gen Z not ready for the workplace and much more. Craig is accused of ‘sweeping claims of crap.’ 

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