Category: Featured

Hays at the Forefront of Talent Tech Innovation

November 21, 2024
Jo Vohland

Learn why Hays is doubling down on talent tech innovation—driven by a commitment to improving recruitment outcomes, staying ahead of market trends, and fostering partnerships that redefine the future of work. Discover why being part of the Innovation Lab at ATC for the past 4 years aligns with their vision for smarter hiring.

ATC2024 Recap: Time to hire is a terrible metric

November 21, 2024
Simon Townsend

Why is time-to-hire a terrible metric? Because it measures your team, but in a horrible way. It’s so variable, and there are so many other metrics that would be more beneficial to focus on. Let Simon Townsend change your mind in this recap of his ATC2024 5+5 Think Again presentation.

Growing More Than Just Moustaches

November 20, 2024
Jo Vohland

Discover how workplace initiatives like Movember drive conversations about men's health and wellbeing. Learn how organisations use creativity to raise awareness and foster a supportive culture. Explore inspiring success stories, tips for engaging teams, and the long-term impact of fostering health-positive workplaces. Join the movement to create lasting change for men’s health.

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Australian workers hoard more than 160 million days of untaken leave. So could you be forced to take a break?

November 14, 2024
The Conversation

Australian workers have accumulated over 160 million days of untaken leave, a trend largely driven by increased workloads, financial concerns, and mental health struggles. This mounting leave liability poses challenges for both employees' wellbeing and business budgets. With burnout on the rise, some employers are starting to mandate leave to support mental health and manage long-term costs, raising questions about whether Australians may eventually be required to take leave for their own and their organisation's benefit. For more details, read on.

ATC2024 Wrap up

October 16, 2024
Jenna Molan

HUGE thanks to everyone who joined us for ATC2024 and helped us make our very first Melbourne ATC a smash hit. A big thank you to all of the speakers, moderators, partners, sponsors, exhibitors, volunteers, and attendees who made ATC2024. We’re putting it lightly when we say we really can’t do it without you.

Unified Hiring

September 26, 2024
Jenna Molan, Matthew Lant

Matthew Lant took time out of his busy schedule as Head of Recruitment and Employer Brand at the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) to answer 3 quick questions about getting started in talent and his upcoming session at ATC2024: Unified Hiring: how we redefined AFCA's needs and aligned Hiring Leaders.

Meet the ATC2024 Innovation Lab Finalists

September 24, 2024
Jo Vohland

Get ready for one of the most highly anticipated sessions of every ATC Conference - the Innovation Lab lets the Australian Talent Community see and explore the emerging and game-changing Talent Technology set to impact how you hire. Co-hosted by ATC and Hays, this year’s finalists will pitch live on stage at ATC2024 at Fed Square where the audience will determine the winner.

The pathway to become a Talent Director

September 18, 2024
Nina Pollard

We asked Nina Pollard, Head of P&C - Corporate Functions at Coles, 3 quick questions and she came back with 3 quick (and insightful!) answers. Find out what Nina thinks about career, making moves, and Melbourne before she takes the stage at ATC2024.

This Week in Talent (13th September 2024)

September 13, 2024
Jody Smith

This week in Talent: cleaning up a hot mess talent function, using a customer journey to convince the higher-ups to change an ugly user experience. Why creating personas was a game-changer in analysing a talent experience and more.

Here’s all the winners from the ITAs 2024

September 6, 2024
Jo Vohland

Last night, Melbourne rolled out the red carpet for the Internal Talent Awards (ITAs), shining a spotlight on the brightest stars in the talent acquisition industry. It was an unforgettable evening packed with applause, excitement, and well-deserved recognition of innovation and excellence. The team at ATC sends a huge congratulations to all the finalists—what a fierce competition. Dive into the full list of winners below and see who claimed top spots in this glittering celebration of talent.

Over the past four years, Hays has partnered with ATC on our annual Innovation Lab Competition, an exciting live pitch-off between several new talent technologies entering the market.

Each year, the Hays team awards the coveted Hays Choice Award to one standout finalist, recognising the most promising new technology with the potential to revolutionise talent acquisition in their on-site RPOs and MSPs.

Beyond the award, Hays works with their chosen talent technology throughout the year via a comprehensive support program. Leveraging their extensive LinkedIn network of 8 million followers, Hays introduces the technology to a wide audience, building brand awareness and industry credibility. Additionally, they organise a series of collaborative meetings with their RPO and MSP on-site leaders, providing the finalist with direct access to talent acquisition teams across diverse industries. This hands-on approach enables the finalist to refine their product through real-world feedback, accelerating their market entry and positioning Hays as a champion of cutting-edge talent tech solutions.

We asked a few questions to Richard Barnett, MSP Solutions Director – ANZ at Hays.

Of the four finalists pitching this year, why did you select Scotty AI?

We had a voting panel of 12 people across Hays. Each person evaluated the four written submissions, as well as publicly available information on the entrants’ websites, and scored them in order. We’re looking for something innovative that will be relevant to our large RPO, MSP, and agency clients.

This year, Scotty AI scored almost 40% more votes than the second choice, but we always reserve our final decision until after the live pitch-off at ATC, as we want to ensure they can articulate their product effectively.

We felt Scotty provided practical talent applications for AI that we could rapidly incorporate into some of our solutions. What we didn’t realise during the written application phase was that Hays was already evaluating Scotty to support our biggest RPO in Europe, which means testing and due diligence were already under way.

Why is innovation so central to Hays’ business and approach?

Hays is well known as a large recruitment agency, but we also run some of the most innovative RPO and MSP programs in ANZ. These solutions are all enabled by technology, and we use the Innovation Lab to help uncover and support the best new talent tech to make the services we provide more effective.

This initiative also saves our clients time in evaluating new products themselves; they appreciate that if it has won the Innovation Lab, it’s probably worth looking at.

To date, Hays has worked with:

2024 Hays Choice Award Winner: Scotty AI

Scotty allows you to manage up to half a million conversations simultaneously in 140 languages—without bias, prejudice, or unfair judgement. Through simple chats, via text or voice, Scotty sources, qualifies, and onboards ideal team members. It solves challenges such as limited capacity, high response times, lack of personalisation, tedious data entry, manual outreach, and inefficient scheduling.

2023 Hays Choice Award Winner: TALY

TALY provides the insights leaders need when they need them. Its personality insights fuel real conversations and smarter talent decisions. Built on validated psychometric tools that capture the five-factor personality model, emotional intelligence, and a range of other traits, TALY profiling gives users clear direction for recruitment, team engagement, and culture.

2022 Hays Choice Award Winner: equidi

equidi is a world-first platform providing real-time visibility into gender pay gaps and workforce representation across every part of a business on a single dashboard. It automates WGEA reporting and helps create a more equitable and inclusive future for all.

2021 Hays Choice Award Winner: GoFIGR

GoFIGR is a talent insights and opportunity marketplace platform that connects the skills and aspirations of your workforce to internal opportunities for upskilling and growth. It helps organisations mobilise, develop, and retain internal talent.

The year-long commitment that Hays provides to their selected technology encompasses marketing, promotion, lunches, meetings, demos, and more.

Natalie Flynn, Founder & CEO of equidi, says:

“The partnership with Hays has been fabulous. They brought their RPO clients together to hear about the product. They gave me lots of great feedback and had thought about how they could help us get the word out. They organised a breakout series and were generous enough to position it as an equidi breakfast, not just as a guest speaker at their event. We’ve also got some broader plans further down the track where we can work on some product enhancements together. Hays has been such a great company to work with.”

With thanks to our friends and partners, Hays.

Hays provides high-quality outsourced recruitment services, including RPO for permanents, MSP for contractors and statements of work, and contractor payroll. We manage multiple MSP, RPO, and contractor payroll programmes across ANZ on behalf of some of the region’s most recognised employers. These cover multiple industry sectors and role types, both blue- and white-collar, and include national, APAC, and global capabilities.