The Benchmarks You Need. The Insights You’ve Been Waiting For.

We surveyed 244 Talent Leaders in the 2026 State of Talent Acquisition Survey. Now, we’re unpacking the story behind the stats in an exclusive two-part webinar series.

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Webinar 1: The Structural Evolution: Skills, Advisory, AI

  Tuesday, 21 July |  💻 Webinar replay available here!

The first session focuses on transformation, workforce strategy, and the structural shifts reshaping Talent functions.

• AI Strategy & Governance: Where the 244 organisations are on their AI infrastructure.
• Agents & Agentic Benefits: Where respondents see the greatest value, contrasted against the biggest barriers slowing adoption.
• The Skills-Based Organisation: What it really means, who typically leads it, how organisations are getting started, and the implications for TA teams.
• Org-Wide Redundancies: What has been driving organisation-wide redundancies over the past 12 months.
• Strategic Focus: Where HR and Talent teams are concentrating their attention in 2026, from SBO to AI and Work Redesign to Talent Advisory.

Webinar 2: The Operational Benchmark

  Tuesday, 28 July |  💻 Webinar replay available here!

The second session focuses on delivery, capability, maturity, and the emerging trends impacting hiring in 2026.

We’ll dive into the operational mechanics behind modern Talent functions:

• Hiring Intentions & Team Size: Are organisations planning for headcount growth or decline and by comparison, how the size of TA teams compare across the market.
• Process Maturity: From standardised scorecards through to formal AI usage guidelines.
• TA Strategy & Business Alignment: Benchmark your organisation against regional averages for strategic strength and business alignment.
• Past Delivery vs Future Confidence: A comparison between hiring delivery over the past 12 months and confidence levels for the year ahead across strategy, process, and technology.
• Candidate Fraud: How prepared Talent teams are to detect sophisticated candidate fraud and the key methods they are using.
• The Changing Role of TA: The extent to which Talent Leaders expect AI to reshape the composition of TA teams by 2028.