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Year: 2024
- Jo Vohland
Can you ask applicants about their cultural background, sexuality, and other protected attributes in the hiring process?Jo Vohland sat down with two experts – one legal and one cultural – on what identity questions we should and shouldn’t ask in a hiring process.
- Katie Le Page
This Week in Talent: It's time for TA to address the issue of bad bosses when talking to hiring managers, prioritising annual leave based on seniority, 3 keys to building an agile and efficient recruiting function, the "Rage Applying" problem, 30% of hours currently worked could be automated by 2030, where Employer Branding is heading, and more!
- Gemma Saunders
Gemma Saunders worked at Medibank in a range of different Talent roles across Talent Acquisition, Organisational Development, DEI, and Employee Experience for almost 10 years before going out on her own with The Workplace Edit. We sat down with Gemma to talk to her about transitioning from life in Talent at a major corporate organisation to working for herself.
- Katie Le Page
This Week in Talent: How can we re-ignite our fascination in "the craft of TA"?, upcoming 'placement poverty' payments not enough, the future skills all Talent Teams need, does your DEI initiative promote assimilation over inclusion?, candidate relationship management, and more!
- John Vlastelica
HR and Recruitment have often felt like 2 separate functions that just work out of the same office. But as the way we work evolves, many modern TA leaders are thinking it’s time to get the band back together. Here are some examples of how Talent Leaders from global organisations have unified elements traditionally thought of as "HR" into the TA function.
- Katie Le Page
This week: why TA needs to focus on "the essence of the customer," Australia in the Top 5 most difficult countries to relocate to for work, more arguments for the 4-Day work week, 1 in 7 people admit to sexually harassing colleagues at work, how effective onboarding impacts retention, and more!
- Kevin Wheeler
Kevin reflects on the advancement of AI in the Talent industry, particularly how data, analytics and algorithms can be used in recruitment today.
- The Conversation
While it's now illegal to restrict employees from openly discussing their salary, it's still generally "not the done thing." But, not talking about salaries can cause problems with pay gaps (by perpetuating implicit bias), and also with employees who mistakenly think they are underpaid. You may not be ready for it now, but there are plenty of reasons for your organisation to start moving towards a model of salary transparency.
- Paul Martin
This week in talent: a look at the hows and they whys of Digital Talent Marketplaces, getting under the hood with Monash Talent, 10 Employer Brand lessons we can learn from Taylor Swift, the 2 women who want to job-share the MP role in the Victorian seat of Higgins, a look at how male and female hiring managers interview differently (and what that means for candidates), the recruitment AI being used by LinkedIn Top Companies, and more!
- Lucy Eldred
We put it out to our LinkedIn community to find out what the Australia/NZ Talentsphere is loving listening to right now. Get ready to update your playlist - here are the top TA & Recruitment podcasts you should be listening to.
