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Scroll through the articles below to explore insights, case studies, and interviews created for, and by, the TA Community.
Or if you want weekly Talent updates, check out our regular This Week in Talent (TWIT) column which comes out every Friday.
- Sunanda Creagh
Done well, the renewable energy transition should improve the lives of First Nations Australians. Many are looking for ways to stay on Country, use their knowledge of Country and contribute to industries that align with their values.
Being “ghosted” – cut off from all communications without an explanation – isn’t a pleasant experience in any situation.
So when you’re in the middle of a job hunt – and may have poured your heart and soul into application forms and interviews – it can really sting.
- Naomi Paik
This Week in Talent: Senior Talent Advisor Naomi Paik from WA takes the wheel as TWIT editor for July and talks redundancy, bias, and rethinking. She gives us some unique insights into the Perth TA scene, including the 'Smerth effect'
- Gemma Saunders
This Week in Talent: Gemma Saunders signs off with a reminder that we are all workplace editors, the realities of a changing DEI space, a Gen-Z perspective on graduate recruitment, and more!
- Aurelio Tedesco
We sat down with Aurelio and asked him 3 quick questions about his upcoming session at ATC2024, reviving TA's brand when trust is gone. Aurelio highlights the importance of a customer service mindset, keeping trust as a part of regular conversations and much more (including a surprising restaurant recommendation in Melbourne!)
- Gemma Saunders
This Week in Talent: Gems reframes change in a positive way including the mass redundancies at Telstra, an interesting AI partnership, and the latest in-demand jobs list. She gives us a practical tool for inclusive questions to promote neuro inclusion and wellbeing and looks at a new challenge for farmers.
- Gemma Saunders
This Week In Talent: Gemma Saunders drops a few interview tips and upskilling outside the square
- Gemma Saunders
This Week In Talent: the legendary Gemma Saunders takes the chair and talks about letting go of the guilt from when things go off track and Pride Month related gems
- Petey Wang
Petey considers how TA and business can better engage with the next generation by adapting to the needs and expectations of millennials and Gen Z, noting it is not just beneficial but essential.
- Jo Vohland
Delivered in partnership with our friends at Paradox, the 2024 State of Talent Acquisition Report is a resource for Talent Teams to get a better idea of where Talent Acquisition is headed and provide benchmark data against which to review their own function.
- Ian McCreery, Jo Vohland, Maisie Farmer, Simon Hedt
- Katie Le Page
This week in Talent: Katie takes the reins for the final time and shares 5 top tips for connecting Talent to business outcomes, her 'deer in the headlights' moment, the use of metrics in building her promotion runsheet, and more!
- Rebecca Houghton
We sat down with Rebecca Houghton, former Head of People Experience at Australia Post and former Head of Recruitment at Bupa to talk to her about transitioning from life in Talent at major corporate organisations to running her own business, BoldHR.
- Katie Le Page
This week in Talent: Katie's advice for the next generation of TA - lean into change, the pros and cons of revealing questions before an interview, why we need to rethink employer brand, streamlining our TA processes, building a high performing team, and more!
- 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.
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.
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.
This week: the skills framework you need to implement to kick-start a skills-powered organisation, understanding the 'readiness dimensions' (i.e. the "where should we start?") when it comes to skills strategies, what the Space Race highlights about the shifting boundaries of TA, Atlassian's Head of Team Anywhere on the power of intentional in-person gatherings (rather than return to office mandates), how IBM uses AI to transform their HR strategies, the 2024 Qualtrics EX trends report, and more!
- Eva Husted
Eva Husted, Talent Acquisition Manager @ Autism Queensland, gives us insight into what really goes on in the life of a Not-for-Profit recruiter.
This Week we hand over the reins to TaPod for the final time. They discuss, MAFS, Spicegirls and real issues affecting the Talent Acquisition sector this week including a trip to Adelaide, WFH and hybrid work and much, much more!
- Lucy Eldred
Design Centred Thinking is frequently employed by product development and digital teams, but there's good reason why Talent Acquisition Teams should be using this methodology to help solve critical talent problems. Here's a run down of how TA teams can use Design Centred Thinking, including an example of a Candidate Experience re-development project.
This Week in Talent: Tapod have the reins! and they discuss DE&I initiatives sweeping the country, menopause in the workplace, the continual march of AI in TA, pressures on the labour market, Tik Tok for recruitment and much more!
- Kevin Wheeler
Just as consumer marketing has evolved into hyper-targeted campaigns, your employer branding and recruitment marketing needs to become more targeted and personalised. It's time to look towards consumer marketing trends and tactics to deliver targeted EB campaigns that will connect with your ideal candidates.
- Sylvia Yeo
Sylvia Yeo, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Manager @ Cbus, gives us insight into what really goes on in the life of a DEI Manager.
- Aron Mercer, David Clarkson, Jennifer Tod, Jody Smith, Lou Zoanetti
This week in Talent: the benefits of time-blocking the "Planned Chaos" that inevitably pops up in any recruiter's day, pregnant women and new mothers reporting dismal working conditions, Bupa trials 9-day fortnight, aged care workers win 28.5% wage rise, Business NSW seeks new category of part-time worker, ATC2024 tix now on sale, and more!
Jo Vohland sat down with Trevor Churchley, Founder & MD of Talentology, to discuss how the TA/Agency relationship should be modelled, agency recruiter pricing structures, how to manage candidate experience in an agency environment, ageism in IT, and much more.
- Ben George
This week in Talent: how to make part-time TA work for you, how to win the productivity prize, what does scrapping the traditional 9-5 working hours mean for women?, increasing disability employment to boost economy by billions, Hunger Games hits the Aussie jobs market, and more!
- Jo Vohland
When was the last time you set out time in your diary to slow down and think? According to Jo Vohland, it's time we all prioritised a pause in our day so that we can have space to focus on horizon scanning, scenario scanning, and strategic intelligence.
This week has been the biggest we’ve seen in terms of progress in gender equality in Australia. Not only is it International Women’s Day, but it’s the week when the Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher, will release Australia’s first-ever gender equality strategy. Not to mention the biggest news of the last week - the watershed moment where the WGEA lifted the veil on gender pay gaps from some of the country's biggest employers. And, yes, some of them were big!
This week in Talent: personal reflections on shifting to a part-time Talent role, the WGEA publishes gender pay gaps for 100+ companies, a potential "bye-bye" to the right to work from home, the employers with the biggest and smallest gender paygaps, Microsoft's New Future of Work report, how one Aussie work-site increased its female workforce x5, and more!
- Adam McKinnon, Courtenay Howard-Bath
A recruitment market scan is complicated and time consuming, right? Wrong! Trevor Vas walks through how to qualify your job brief with a pre-sourcing market scan in just a couple of hours using AI tools like Bard or ChatGPT.
- Jo Vohland, Simon Hedt, James Witcombe, Natalie Badawy
- Lucy Eldred, Adam Avci, Ashleigh Lyas
