Category: Talent Careers
- 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?
- 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.
- Sarah Purches
Recruiters assess candidates every day. We review CVs, LinkedIn profiles, communication style, credibility, attention to detail, career progression and professional judgement. But candidates are assessing recruiters in exactly the same way.
- Craig Brewer, Jo Vohland
A Talent Partner can mean many things across different organisations. When structured (and labelled!) correctly, Talent Advisors are a Commercial Hiring Coach offering high-value consulting and strategic decision support: helping leaders make informed workforce choices, challenge traditional and sometimes outdated hiring practices, and align talent decisions with business reality.
- Alisa Belova
Is the candidate you’re interviewing a deepfake or a real person? Do you have an AI governance policy in your organisation? Will AI make your skills and ultimately your career obsolete? Will AI replace recruiters? Do you still think AI is just like any other revolution?
- 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.
- Brad Kent
When people ask me why I love my job, the answer is simple and not surprising: Impact. The impact we have on people’s lives, on businesses, on communities and on ourselves. In the world of HR, few roles offer the unique blend of strategy, creativity, and human connection that Talent Acquisition does.