This Week in Talent (24th November)

Hi there! Lucy here, Head of Marketing & Comms @ ATC, dropping into the TWIT feed for a special one off edition – LIVE FROM ATC2023!

That’s right, this week 500+ Talent Professionals from all around Australia and New Zealand converged at Sydney’s Luna Park to talk all things Talent. The past 2-days have featured some incredible insights and takeaways, including:

  • We need to start thinking about work as a product. Work experiences are the products that get purchased by employees; it’s time for you to get to know what “product” you’re taking to market  (Dart Lindsley, Google)
  • The future of work never comes. The future of work is now – if we want to achieve the future we want to live, we need to start making micro adjustments to what we’re doing now. And Talent Leaders are the canaries in the coalmine of the evolving work landscape. (Reanna Browne, Work Futures)
  • If you are struggling to retain employees in the first 6-12 months, it’s worth assessing whether candidates understand what the job entails. Dentsu’s Daniel Stockdale explained how they implemented Vervoe to enable candidates to experience a real live job experience, and in doing so dropped their 44% turnover rate to 6%.
  • The rate of unemployment for people with disability hasn’t changed in 30 years, and 88% of people with disability don’t need any workforce adjustment; the just need a chance. The panel discussion with  spoke about how Talent teams hold the keys to build more diverse and inclusive organisations. (Dylan Alcott,  Joel Sardi, The Field, and Kate Gaffy, Tennis Australia)
  • When a family adopts the use of the term “family” it’s usually a red flag for candidates. How can we represent our brands and roles in a more authentic way that reflects what candidates are really looking for in their work? (Lauren Anderson, Indeed)
  • The 4-day work week is coming! There was once a point in history when people worked 7 days a week, up until WWII it was common to work a half-day on Saturdays – moving to a 4-day work week is a natural step in this evolution. (Kevin Wheeler)

A HUGE congratulations to Getmee, who took out the prize for the ATC2023 Innovation Lab Talent Tech Pitch Off! Founder and CEO Bala Thavarajah delivered an impressive pitch to a packed room of delegates explaining the merits of their Interview Ready, an interactive AI driven coaching tool which allows candidates to practice their conversational English to help prepare them for job interviews. The Hays’ Choice Award went to Taly, pitched by Peter Treloar,  a personality profiling and talent intelligence solution that brings to life the valuable insights from personality data through technology and AI.

And as well as all the incredible content and insights, lets not forget the rides. The games. The great chats and merch at the expo. The gelato. The Party. And the FUN! The vibe on the show floor was honestly electric and it was such a great joy to be amongst it.

This is just a drop in the ocean of the knowledge gems that were dropped this week, so we’ll bring you more over the coming week. If you want to see what the attendees and partners were saying about the event, head on over and take a look at #ATC2023 on LinkedIn.

Just a few snaps from #ATC2023 – more coming soon!

For our articles this week, we’ve provided a summary of the insights from our speakers that we heard from at Luna Park this week. Stay tuned for next week when we’ll be bringing you a full run-down next week with a new TA industry Guest TWIT Editor (Who will it be?? ).

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