This Week In Talent (7th June)
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
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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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 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!
Hello fellow TWITs – I hope you have had a great week!!
For most of us in TA, the mechanics of end-to-end recruitment hasn’t really changed over the last 15 plus years. You have a PD, create an advert, screen candidates, interview candidates, make an offer to the best from the interviews, and close the job – right?
However, post-Covid anyone that didn’t have the passion for our craft saw this step-by-step routine as too boring; why bother if you were going to process candidates like a sausage factory, body in and body out? These people fled for greener pastures.
What these people missed is the fascination with our craft. I see this not just within my own TA team but also when I spend time with the vast talent within my networks (including the Brissy Meet-up’s that I co-host with Tracey Quinn). It’s the growing complexity that sits behind every role, every hiring leader, their team’s objectives, the requirement to segment difference per key job family, and the everchanging business demands to do more with less – because there’s no more budget! It’s these complexities that help us build better critical thinking, consulting skills, and stronger confidence to challenge the status quo; what we hired last year is not what we will find today. Candidates’ expectations, ways of working and the pace of career progression post-Covid keeps morphing. I wonder if our craft is keeping up?
Our tech solutions are just as vast, complex, and often mind blowing. In which combination do we use our team’s expertise, coaching outcomes with our leaders, creative written skills to pitch the role? Where I don’t see a lot of maturity still is in the variety of situation any new hire will face to be successful in their role – how can we assess this in a fun, interactive and experience centric way that elevates “situational awareness questioning”?
If you want to know more about how Talent Leaders from all around Australia and New Zealand are dealing with these situations, make sure to tune into the upcoming ATC webinar on Thursday 23rd May which will unpack the findings from the 2024 State of TA Survey.
Placement poverty across our student nurses, teachers and social workers is a growing (yet not overly published) concern. It’s baffled me working in Aged Care how enrolled nurses can survive working a full time placement with NO pay and still find time to work to live and feed themselves!
With the emergence of employers shutting down offices, embracing 100% virtual operations, and saving costs on commercial properties – it makes me wonder how are they investing differently in culture, engagement and talent management.
With so much AI tech targeting skills set to pre-determine talent and candidates, what does this mean for building capabilities within our talent/people teams to have these conversations?
The fine line between inclusion vs. assimilation is a key theme currently with international clinical hiring – Is cultural assimilation a new theme within DE&I strategies?
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