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- Liani Baylis
This free download is a hiring design framework designed to help HR teams, hiring managers, and senior leaders review common recruitment barriers for neurodivergent candidates. It gives you practical steps to define role requirements, assess capability more clearly, and reduce reliance on vague criteria, interview performance, and “culture fit” judgement.
- Liani Baylis
This free accommodations menu template gives you a practical starting point for making access clearer in your hiring process. It offers examples of simple, yet effective, accommodations, as well as templated text to help you communicate seeking adjustments as a tool for supporting interview performance.
- Jo Vohland
Discover the top 7 TA and HR podcasts for ANZ and global talent leaders. Benchmark your hiring strategy with insights from TaPod, Edan Haddock - Total Talent, bAIbes, and more on TA strategy and AI tech.
- Tibo Torche, Radhika Achwal, Matt Broadley
The shift to becoming a Skills-Based Organisation sounds straightforward: understand the skills you have, identify the capabilities you need, and use that insight to make better workforce decisions. In practice, getting there requires changes to how organisations think about jobs, workforce planning, learning, technology and, importantly, the role of Talent Acquisition.
For TA Teams, this creates an opportunity to move beyond replacing roles like-for-like and play a more active role in shaping the capabilities the organisation needs next. But what does that actually look like in practice?
- Matt Woodard
TA has spent the last few years getting more strategic. Talent mapping, market engagement, pipeline building, structured outreach. All of it useful, all of it necessary. But none of it works if the hiring manager is still operating in replacement mode, treating every vacancy as a like-for-like backfill and every brief as a search for the last person who held the role.
- Jo Vohland
Our recent LinkedIn poll surfaced an important mindset shift for Internal Talent Acquisition Teams.
When asked who they saw as their ‘Customer’, the largest proportion of respondent (all Talent Acquisition Leaders and Senior Recruiters) chose ‘The Hiring Manager’. That perspective reflects a traditional recruitment model, where success is defined by responding well to a hiring request.
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- Ashleigh Lyas, Adam Avci
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- Jo Vohland
Webinar 2 focusses the operational mechanics behind modern Talent functions. Delivery, Process Maturity, AI Transparency and Trust as well as the changing role of the Hiring Teams in 2026.
- Jo Vohland
Webinar 1 focusses on the structural evolution of Skills, Advisory and AI and how Talent Functions are expanding their remit.
- 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…