Category: Talent Intelligence & Advisory
- Olga Barrett
Thinking of hiring in APAC? Forget one-size-fits-all. From China to Vietnam, Singapore to Japan, every market moves to its own beat - culturally, economically, and legally. What worked yesterday won’t work today, and what works here might fail there. Talent pools shift, policies tighten, and candidates’ priorities evolve faster than most playbooks can keep up. Dive in to uncover the realities, myths, and strategies that actually work when expanding across East Asia - warts, wins, and all.
- Olga Barrett
TA leaders often fight for credibility despite driving revenue through strategic hiring. This is my take on how to quantify TA's business impact, shift from order-taker to advisor, and build data-driven operations, calculate hiring ROI, optimise budgets, and position TA as a profit centre - not just overhead.
- Olga Barrett
Too often 'Agile' means 'we have no deadlines or planning', 'we react to every whim', 'need for speed, quality is secondary'. In fact, any mess can be justified as an 'Agile approach', and if you dare ask for structure or sanity, you risk being labelled 'rigid'.
The Agile Manifesto, born when developers, sick of siloed work, realised the only way to satisfy customers was through collaboration. With geographical expansion, demand surges and spikes, high volume of niche roles and business pressures to keep productivity up and cost per hire down came some big changes. Working just in your locale with occasional 'support' from others was not an option anymore. Before adopting Agile, we had to embody its core principle: being agile - able to move quickly and easily. When role surges hit, we assembled cross-border project teams (TA Leads, Ops, Sourcers, Marketing).
- Olga Barrett
Skills-based recruitment has become increasingly popular in the last few years, and for a good reason. We are looking at a range of sizeable benefits that happen to be especially relevant in the world of the gig-economy upsurge and talent scarcity.
After we finally admitted that the past does not necessarily define the future, and that lie detectors and psychological testing can predict one’s success only slightly better than astrology and fortune telling, many companies came to realise that when done right, skills-based recruitment is quite cost-effective.
And indeed, what is there not to love?
- Nadine O’Regan
Talent Acquisition is Evolving: New Report Reveals the Five-Stage Journey to Talent Enablement. A new report by Talent Strategy expert Nadine O’Regan unpacks the rapidly shifting landscape of Talent Acquisition, revealing a maturity model that redefines the function’s role in business success. The report explores how TA teams are moving beyond traditional hiring practices into strategic business partnership and talent enablement.
- Brad Kent
To unlock the full potential of your TA team, it’s essential to create engaging, meaningful work that not only motivates but also empowers them to thrive. Here’s some ideas so you can transform your TA function into a strategic powerhouse.
- Trevor Vas
Talent Acquisition is at a crossroads. This article explores how TA professionals can reclaim their strategic value by embracing AI, building advisory capability, and aligning closer to business outcomes. It's not about resisting change, it's about leading it with clarity, confidence, and a clear strategy for impact.
- Brad Kent
The expectations of a TA Advisor, Sourcing Specialist or Leader has shifted drastically in the last decade. Much has been written and said about this by many, but like the shift from Recruitment to Talent Acquisition, the shift from Talent Acquisition to a Talent Advisory function is real and happening quickly.
- Marrin-Boyd Andrews
Discover how talent teams can future-proof strategy by using structured prompts to decode industry trends and uncover actionable insight. This TWIT reveals a powerful prompt used to analyse shifting trends, align workforce planning, and shape business decisions - ideal for HR, TA, and strategy leaders ready to lead with foresight, not hindsight.