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- Nadine O’Regan
The case study explores Bupa’s broader focus on productivity, employee wellbeing, and delivering better customer outcomes. Rather than treating productivity and engagement as separate challenges, the project reframed work design as the lever to improve both simultaneously. The goal was to create a more human, future-ready TA function where people spend more time on meaningful, high-impact work.
- Ian McCreery, Adam Godson, Jo Vohland
Your workforce strategy is the engine that powers your organisational goals and when you align how you find people with where the company is headed, TA becomes a primary driver of business success. Yet many teams still face fragmented systems, limited talent visibility, and processes that struggle to keep pace. The next phase of Talent…
- Natalie Badawy, Alexia Ellmers, Ashleigh Lyas
In 2026, the most effective talent acquisition professionals have stepped into the role of commercial coach. By moving beyond order-taking, these partners provide the value, data, and perspectives that hiring managers simply don’t have. This shift ensures that before a role is even posted, the strategy has been challenged and refined to maximize ROI and strategic alignment with departmental goals.
- Jo Vohland, Kim Cullen, Ben Stevens
Relying on a resume and conversations as a core hiring process is currently facing its most significant challenge. While self-reported skills have never guaranteed actual ability, the widespread access to powerful AI tools has fundamentally shifted the environment.
- Kevin Wheeler
The year 2026 marks the end of the “experimentation” phase for recruiting. If 2024 and 2025 were about toy-like AI chatbots and general AI curiosity, 2026 is about outcomes, infrastructure, and a fundamental redesign of what recruiters actually do and the new shape of the workplace.
This will be a year to remember, as changes already reshaping almost everything take hold.
The year 2026 marks the end of the “experimentation” phase for recruiting. If 2024 and 2025 were about toy-like AI chatbots and general AI curiosity, 2026 is about outcomes, infrastructure, and a fundamental redesign of what recruiters actually do and the new shape of the workplace.
- Sean Perera
For smaller not-for-profits, often working with limited resources, improving candidate experience does not require big budgets or complex programmes. Simple, practical changes such as clearer communication, easier scheduling and more thoughtful feedback can make a meaningful difference. Our progress came from a series of small, deliberate improvements across the hiring journey. Candidate experience is not something you add on at the end. It is shaped by everyday decisions and how consistently they are applied. When those decisions reflect your purpose and values, the result is an experience people genuinely remember.
This Week in Talent
Published every Friday morning, our This Week in Talent (TWIT) column features a guest editor plucked straight from the Talent Community who shares their favourite talent articles from around the web from the past week. It’s everything you need to know about the week that was in Talent, all in one spot!
- Sanghita Mukherjee
At ATC2025, the session “Canva Redesigned Tech Interviews for the AI Era” was a standout example of how hiring practices are catching up with the realities of modern work. I found this session both refreshing and thought-provoking. Canva’s approach challenges the old model of technical interviews by recognising that coding in 2025 isn’t a solo act, it’s a collaboration between humans and AI. Rather than testing memory or syntax, their process evaluates how candidates think, prompt, and problem-solve alongside intelligent tools. It felt like a glimpse into the future of hiring.
- Hai Nguyen
The Strategic Workforce Planning session at ATC2025, presented by Chris Hare and Alicia Roach, was one of those moments that made you stop and rethink how your organisation really plans for the future. It unpacked what happens when workforce planning evolves from a numbers exercise to a true business capability - one that connects people, purpose, and performance.
- Andrew Retschko, Jo Vohland
Jo Vohland and Medibank’s Andrew Retschko created interview questions to help HR and Talent Acquisition leaders prepare for a 4-Day Work Week (4DWW) pilot. From system redesign and cross-team alignment to EVP positioning and candidate experience, these questions highlight the leadership skills needed to deliver a successful 4DWW transformation.
- Jo Vohland, Aubrey Blanche
As AI and new work models take hold, expectations on HR and Talent Leaders will intensify, with new role requirements quickly emerging. Interviews will test not only your past expertise but also your ability to lead the evolving programs of work. Jo Vohland collaborated with HR & Equitable Design Leader, Aubrey Blanche to map out some examples of Interview Questions you may soon be asked.
- Olga Barrett
Thinking of hiring in APAC? Forget one-size-fits-all. From China to Vietnam, Singapore to Japan, every market moves to its own beat - culturally, economically, and legally. What worked yesterday won’t work today, and what works here might fail there. Talent pools shift, policies tighten, and candidates’ priorities evolve faster than most playbooks can keep up. Dive in to uncover the realities, myths, and strategies that actually work when expanding across East Asia - warts, wins, and all.
- Olga Barrett
TA leaders often fight for credibility despite driving revenue through strategic hiring. This is my take on how to quantify TA's business impact, shift from order-taker to advisor, and build data-driven operations, calculate hiring ROI, optimise budgets, and position TA as a profit centre - not just overhead.
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- Ian McCreery, Adam Godson, Jo Vohland
Your workforce strategy is the engine that powers your organisational goals and when you align how you find people with where the company is headed, TA becomes a primary driver of business success. Yet many teams still face fragmented systems, limited talent visibility, and processes that struggle to keep pace. The next phase of Talent…
- Kevin Wheeler
As we move toward 2030, the global labour market is entering a period of realignment driven by three converging forces: the accelerated adoption of AI, rapidly aging populations in developed economies, and the modularization of work itself. This session will explore how these macro trends are undermining traditional recruiting models and reshaping the employer-employee relationship.…
- Daniel Balout, Jo Vohland, Maree Fiore, Faye Jackson
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 151 Talent Acquisition Leaders from some of Australia’s largest employers to uncover how they’re managing high-volume hiring in 2025. We investigated the balance between automation and human touch, key hiring metrics, and…
- Nicola Harrison, Andrew Brockhoff, Jo Vohland
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 226 Talent Teams about: Talent Strategy & Funding; Effectiveness & Evolution of the Function; Talent Technology & AI; Organisational AI Readiness; and much more. In this webinar – which took place on…
- Kevin Wheeler
It’s your chance to access Kevin Wheeler’s annual Fearless Forecast from ATC2024! In this exclusive playback, hear Kevin as he delivers a bold vision for the future of talent acquisition and workforce trends accompanied by his slides from ATC2024. Kevin’s forecast is not not be missed, equipping you to stay ahead in 2025 and beyond.…
- Jo Vohland, Rebecca Warren, Trevor Vas
Aligning HR + TA with Business Strategy If there’s only one strategic imperative you can achieve in 2025, let it be alignment. When your people strategies align seamlessly with your business objectives, everything else falls into place. In this webinar, we unpack: Types of Alignment The challenge for HR and Talent Leaders is that we…