TaPod - We Talk Talent Acquisition.

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Rachel Hill, Managing Director at Hill Consulting HRS & Founder at The Recruitment Skills Academy. But Rachel is on a mission. Along with our very own Craig Watson, she has developed the first-ever accredited vocational training for our industry in a Certificate IV in TA and Diploma in TA Management. Not only that, but they are also about to launch the Talent Acquisition Association of Australia – TAAA. This is a member-based industry association to drive the professionalism and standards of talent acquisition in the region. The TAAA will provide guidance and resources, lobby the government, be the voice of internal recruitment and test frameworks around new strategies and technologies. They have already signed on a number of vendor partners who will contribute data, whitepapers and special deals to members. It’s high time we are seen as a true profession, and that can only be the case if we take steps to act like one.

Thanks to Greenhouse for partnering with us this month. 

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, including holding grudges at work and what it’s costing you; Callam Pickering – APAC Senior Economist at Indeed joins us for an update on job numbers, the Budget and what we can all look forward to… or not; AI already gaming recruiters; Human Capital reduced to a cost line item; the real story behind Bolt firing their HR team; and much more.

Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us to bring you the Scoop.

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Sue Howse – Managing Partner & Founder at The Human Collaborative. Sue is the foremost commentator in the Contingent Workforce in the APAC region. Sue shares with us what has changed and what has stayed the same in the sector. From P&C to Procurement to TA, the Contingent Workforce can be a minefield of risk and the biggest risk of all is a lack of understanding. If you have non-traditional workers in your business, from casuals to contractors to SOW workers you really need to take a listen to this episode.

Thanks to Daxtra for partnering with us this month. 

Get ready for a special episode of Tapod, where we sit down with Christian Ward – Chief Customer Officer at Daxtra. We talk tech in recruitment. And how many recruitment functions are wasting this valuable asset. We talk about how powerful data is for recruiters, how AI supports data processing and where the future lies. We have so much information at our hands – how do we unlock the candidate data vault? Christian’s here to let us in on the secret.

It’s your weekly episode of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including…  Bunnings Chief wants us to consider hiring reformed offenders; LinkedIn cuts blown totally out of proportion; Tech companies are hiring back laid-off staff; Women suffer more over AI role encroachment and have lost trust in employers; putting on a brave front at work may force you towards the bottle; EY roll back paid parental leave perks and much more.

Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop. 

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Bernt Schindler – Head of Talent Acquisition at Holcim Australia and Director at APACAI. AI is threatening to completely change the landscape in TA & Recruitment and Bernt is here to help us navigate the really interesting bits. Lauren and Craig can’t seem to agree on anything, and they all take you on a fascinating journey through what’s real and what’s not. 

Thanks to Daxtra for partnering with us this month. 

It’s your weekly episode of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including…  China bans workers being sacked for AI,  Qantas on track for a little spat with the union, employers rewarding staff who regularly attend the office, data around just how… or if AI is supporting recruitment, skilled migrants underemployed, James Ellis is the Taylor Swift of TA & EB and much more

Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop. 

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Tibo Torche – Group Talent Acquisition Manager from Esri (Australia and South Asia). If you’ve ever checked a rain radar, or dialled before you dug – Esri probably provided the tech – and recruiting in this field is very interesting. We discuss process to tech-stack to AI and future plans. And the end of the day, Tibo has a teamwork-first philosophy and it has enabled him the build a highly successful team. It’s a great episode and we learned a lot – you will too.

Thanks to Daxtra for partnering with us this month. 

Buckle in for a special episode of Tapod, where we sit down with Craig Watson, (yes you read that right - Craig is a guest), as he launches his new venture, People Orbit AI. Craig has spent the last year embedding himself in all things AI and has some very controversial views on where our industry sits. People Orbit AI has been created to add knowledge, power and value to TA and HR functions as we navigate the new reality. 

He believes that we are right on the precipice of a ‘Kodak moment', and if we as an industry don’t wake from our slumber, we may suffer a similar fate. No one disputes that we are implementing more AI in our workflows to remove the repetitive, boring, adminny (not sure that’s a real word) tasks. But businesses are also hiring less staff in many industries while they work out their own tech-led restructures.

So if automation is allowing us to get more work done, but there is less work – where does that leave us as a function? With a massive opportunity to step up and grow up – that’s where!

Who knows roles in businesses better than TA and HR? Who knows what tasks are required to be successful in any role better than TA and HR? No-one… So it makes sense that we take ownership for tasks, roles and workforce planning. That’s right, we need to run the workforce re-architecture projects, and we need to make the decisions on whether humans, agents or a combination of both are the right fit. And then WE need to be the ones hiring not only the people but also the automation solutions.

Craig has built People Orbit AI to get teams and businesses to that point.

It’s a fascinating development and you should speak to Craig if you want to learn more…

It’s your weekly episode of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… Lauren sings for us all, candidate fraud on the increase, workplace cocaine use on the up, possible changes to leave entitlements and redundancies, AI stirring up religious objections, money to be invested in apprenticeships and much more

Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.