Australasian Talent Conference 2018

Case Study: Improving the candidate experience journey through feedback and benchmark data

For Johnson & Johnson, 2017 was the year of the candidate. It was an opportunity for the TA function to better understand how their processes were viewed on the external market and how this was impacting their candidates. This started their journey to discover how we could improve their candidate experience and address the real life challenges that their future employees were experiencing. James will share the stage with Kevin Grossman, Talent Board’s President of Global Programs, in this session to share how important gathering candidate feedback is and their journey so far.

Workshop: Hello A.I. Enabled Sourcing, Goodbye Boolean Expert 

Expert sourcing was once for Boolean logic experts – carefully crafting stings and executing searches across a multitude of platforms. But that’s no longer the case! Today, A.I. produces the same results instantaneously but also does the screening and benchmarking for you, making everyone an expert Sourcer. Are you ready to put your feet up as your Sourcing Assistant operates 24/7 with 10X faster results? Join Andy to find out more.

Breakout: The challenge of human connection at scale

How can you get personal at scale? Siemens’ Head of Global Recruitment Marketing, Teresa Collis, discusses how the adoption of video has allowed her team to achieve that, all the while ensuring that their brand values of innovation and authenticity continue to stand out. However, rolling out this new technology globally was not without its challenges and Teresa will be sharing some of the issues she faced and how she overcame them.

Case Study: Leading Talent transformation using influencing & storytelling

You are new, your organisation is undergoing major disruption, and you realise everything that you know about Talent, growth and transformation no longer apply – what do you do? In this session, Raquel will share how she overcame these challenges using skills and strategies that are not from your typical Talent Acquisition playbook.

Keynote: How to Lead a Quest

Has your organisation become Cursed with Efficiency? We’re all so busy that we seek quick fixes, aka defaults, to save us time, incrementally innovating without realising these things may be leading us toward irrelevance. Jason will show you how to augment your existing strategy by leading quests, so that we stay the path towards enduring relevance!

Raising the Bar – How Atlassian Attracts More Qualified & Diverse Candidates with Data

In a short span of 2 years, Atlassian has improved it’s hiring of women in technical roles by 80% while simultaneously increasing the representation of employees over 40 and those from ethnic minority groups. Aubrey will show you how to leverage on data to build a balance & diverse team at scale effectively and share some of the tools you can use.

Artificial Intelligence: Separating Hype from Reality

With so many tools using A.I. entering the Talent market and in a space few of us deeply understand, what we really need is a tour guide. As mentor for over 1,500 Talent start-ups in the U.S., Jonathan is perfectly placed to share his insights on what’s hot in the A.I. space. Join him!

The Science of Innovation

The ability to create a culture of innovation is key to growing a business.  Hooray! Something the bots can’t do. Well actually, most humans don’t know how to either. This interactive session will test your intuition against science & you’ll learn a scientifically proven method giving you the edge in the innovative new world of work.

A.I. for Recruitment: What does it mean & how it’s helping Talent functions today

Artificial Intelligence is generally misunderstood – from the fear it will take our jobs through to the idea that it will magically solve all of our problems. Rob’s keynote will explore what A.I. in recruiting can and can’t do, and provide you with real examples of how it can help you solve your recruiting challenges.

Breakout: Creating an automated selection experience that treats your candidates as people, not numbers

Candidates want to be treated as people, not numbers, gaining a return on the time they’ve invested in applying for your role. Sounds familiar but not sure how to do that? David will share how he has combined candidate-centred design thinking, business engagement, automation, and an agile approach to solve this challenge, and how you can apply the learning to your own organisation.

Human Solutions for the Skills Revolution 

Sue shares the stage with Kate Donovan, ManpowerGroup’s President Global RPO, to discuss the growing importance of identifying human strengths in the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) recruitment process – including traditional soft skills like communication, collaboration and creativity, as well as uniquely human traits like empathy, relationship-building, cognitive ability and the desire to learn. You will also hear how the ADF has partnered with ManpowerGroup to recruit their brightest and best for more than 14 years through a public-private collaboration called Defence Force Recruiting (DFR).

Breakout: Delivering organisational growth strategy through data-driven talent management

A key challenge for many organisations is aligning their people strategy with their organisational strategy. In this session, Tanya shares the stage with Mark Do, Director, Talent (Organisational Psychologist) from Peter Berry Consulting (PBC), to discuss how Probuild uses a multi-metrics approach to Talent identification and development, based around PBC’s Talent Codex framework. This innovative approach has enabled HR to drive the people capability agenda to ensure Probuild delivers on their business objectives.

Workshop: The human behind the job title – using video to scale your personal brand

The future of recruitment is all about being more human, connecting with candidates in a real and authentic way. This interactive workshop will have you moving out of your comfort zone and diving into the contagious world of video creation. Join prolific digital content creator and recent recruiter-turn-entrepreneur Ruby Lee, as she shows you how to utilise social media video platforms (e.g. Facebook Story) to shape your employer and personal brand and turn that into content that attracts candidates, leads and conversations beyond your expectations.

The Good, the Bad & The Ugly of A.I. 

We’ve heard it all: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is taking over recruitment, A.I. is destroying recruitment, A.I. is enhancing recruitment, but what’s the truth? Antonluigi  breaks down the good, the bad, and the ugly of A.I.. Find out how your recruitment team will thrive in a world developing around A.I.

Breakout: Re-imagining Talent Acquisition: How A.I. hires your best talent, bias-free

The current wave of HR tech innovation is opening big opportunities to reinvent the way we think about Talent Acquisition, and with the TA function playing a more strategic role to impact business success. Grace and her fellow presenter Kelly Trindel, in this session, will give you insight on how pymetrics, through the use of neuroscience and cutting edge A.I., has helped top global and Australian-based companies diversify their workforce, and more.

Fearless Forecast: Workforce 2019 & Beyond

Kevin’s Fearless Forecast at the end of the conference is an ATC institution and absolutely unmissable if you want to be prepared for upcoming industry disruptions in 2019 and beyond. His decades of industry experience pulls back the veil on whatever the future may hold.

Workshop: Understanding your candidate’s persona using Human Centred Design 

Once reserved only for serious Marketers, HCDT and the use of personas is now a tool of the modern recruiter enabling them to reduce costs and time to fill. By the end of this session you will have created a Persona for either your hardest to fill or your most frequently hired role, enabling you to implement and replicate the approach across your portfolio.

Innovation Lab 

The HR Technology showcase that will change the way you recruit. Be the first to see and explore the emerging and game-changing HR & recruitment technology set to impact the future of talent management.

Workshop: Strategist: The New Perm TA Model 

Reviewing your TA model has never been more important. There are many variables to consider such as levels of service to all stakeholders, amount of automation, the analytics you use to measure success, your sourcing channels and many others. This session will provide you with a framework that will enable you to understand how you to benchmark and then potentially may optimise your TA Model.

Workshop: The human trait of influencing 

The Comms Expert is really a person with amazing Influencing Skills. This workshop will take you through the Principals of Ethical Influence that can be applied to any Talent Management Situation. Trevor Vas and Sonia will be using the Principals set down by Dr Robert Cialdini who has written a number of books on Influencing. We will define these Principals and then break up into groups to apply these principals to practical Talent Management scenarios.

Workshop: Digital recruitment marketing – maximising candidate engagement and conversion

In the recruiting equivalent of shopping cart abandonment, over 90% of candidates are needlessly lost along their way to an application. Shane and Stan Rolfe will show you how to leverage your existing tech stack with free online tools to enhance your candidate application journey and share simple recruitment marketing techniques that can help you uncover hidden talent pools that you never knew existed.

Breakout: Wowing candidates and freeing up recruiters via A.I. powered text bots and scheduling assistants 

With A.I. powered bots and survey assistants on the rise we saw a talent problem just begging to solve itself. Join Grant to hear how leading talent functions are piloting the use of a ‘text bot’ and scheduling assistant that has not only delighted their candidates but has freed up their recruitment team to do far greater things.

Human Solutions for the Skills Revolution 

Kate shares the stage with Air Commodore Sue McGready to discuss the growing importance of identifying human strengths in the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) recruitment process – including traditional soft skills like communication, collaboration and creativity, as well as uniquely human traits like empathy, relationship-building, cognitive ability and the desire to learn. You will also hear how ManpowerGroup has partnered with ADF to recruit their brightest and best for more than 14 years through a public-private collaboration called Defence Force Recruiting (DFR).

Case Study: Improving the candidate experience journey through feedback and benchmark data

For Johnson & Johnson, 2017 was the year of the candidate. It was an opportunity for the TA function to better understand how their processes were viewed on the external market and how this was impacting their candidates. This started their journey to discover how we could improve their candidate experience and address the real life challenges that their future employees were experiencing. James and Kevin Grossman will share how important gathering candidate feedback is and their journey so far.

Breakout: Delivering organisational growth strategy through data-driven talent management

A key challenge for many organisations is aligning their people strategy with their organisational strategy. In this session, Mark shares the stage with Tanya Cook, Probuild’s Group Manager of People and Culture, to discuss how Probuild uses a multi-metrics approach to talent identification and development, based around PBC’s Talent Codex framework. This innovative approach has enabled HR to drive the people capability agenda to ensure Probuild delivers on their business objectives.

Breakout: Re-imagining Talent Acquisition: How A.I. hires your best talent, bias-free

The current wave of HR tech innovation is opening big opportunities to reinvent the way we think about Talent Acquisition, and with the TA function playing a more strategic role to impact business success. Kelly and her fellow presenter, Grace Kerrison, in this session will give you insight on how pymetrics, through the use of neuroscience and cutting edge A.I., has helped top global and Australian-based companies diversify their workforce, and more.

Workshop: Marketer: Maximising Candidate Engagement and Conversion 

In the recruiting equivalent of shopping cart abandonment, over 90% of candidates are needlessly lost along their way to an application. Shane Gray and Stan will show you how to leverage your existing tech stack with free online tools to enhance your candidate application journey and share simple recruitment marketing techniques that can help you uncover hidden talent pools that you never knew existed.

Success in the era of talent intelligence

We are in an era of Talent intelligence where companies are turning to data solutions and artificial intelligence to source, hire and retain talent. As part of this, talent leaders have to shift from traditional methods such as simply evaluating a candidate’s last job or current skillset, to assessing where new talent pools are, identifying what skills gaps currently exist, and evaluating if the candidate has skills that can be transformed to fit a different role within the company. Join Tim Grogan’s session and learn how to succeed in this new era of talent intelligence.

Breakout: Bots can’t tell stories 

Life lessons can’t be coded and bots can’t tell stories so why, with storytelling at the foundation of the recruitment process for both recruiters and candidates, are we so worried about “when the bots will take over”? During this interactive session, Lee-Martin Seymour will tackle a rising concern over the loss of human skills in the human resources profession, and uncover the point at which human experience must be applied to tech smarts to maintain control of the recruitment process. Lee-Martin Seymour: “We might use technology to speed up the dating process, but we need to be human to win love. We have learned this lesson before.”

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Breakout: Forget Red Bull – A.I. gives you wings: simple ways AI can help you bring higher value and better decision-making. Global expert shows you how

A.I. is most powerful when it simply enables people to do more valuable work, every day. Drawing on creative and thought-provoking use-cases, global A.I. expert Antony will look at who’s using A.I. well and how it has enabled higher-quality decisions and some surprising outcomes. Antony leads a team of world-class Data Analysts and Scientists and has a deep understanding of A.I.’s current application and future potential in the employment marketplace. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with an industry thought-leader who is at the leading edge of A.I.’s role in recruitment and sourcing.

Case Study: Launchpad: How hiring and onboarding Australian Service Personnel can strengthen your business

Service personnel have undergone a superior level of training which has taught them to handle a variety of situations, often under very demanding circumstances. These unique skills are able to be transferred to the corporate sector, if they are properly understood by both the employer and the service person. In this interactive session, Prue will explain what some of these skills are and explore how you can make your business stronger by hiring ex-service personnel. She will also outline a core area of Soldier On’s services; assisting service personnel in their career transition process and providing free support to corporate Australia through the Soldier On Pledge Program.