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- Jo Vohland
Delivered in partnership with our friends at Paradox, the 2025 State of Volume Hiring Report...
- Jo Vohland
Delivered in partnership with our friends at Eightfold, the 2025 State of Talent Acquisition Report is a resource for Talent Teams to get a better idea of where Talent Acquisition is headed and provide benchmark data against which to review their own function. These results give us a clear insight into current recruitment trends, how talent teams are feeling, and what the talent priorities are right now.
- Nicola Harrison, Andrew Brockhoff, Jo Vohland
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 226 Talent Teams about: Talent Strategy & Funding; Effectiveness & Evolution of the Function; Talent Technology & AI; Organisational AI Readiness; and much more. In this webinar – which took place on…
- Sakshi Jansen
Greenhouse has officially landed in Australia, opening a Sydney office to support its expanding client base. As hiring teams confront a surge in AI-generated candidate fraud, Greenhouse introduces “Real Talent” a new AI-enabled platform designed to detect fake applications, ensure candidate authenticity, and protect hiring quality across the recruitment process.
- Derek Del Simone, Jo Vohland
In every organisation, some Talent leaders do more than hire, they untangle. They strip back needless complexity, challenge stale systems, and design hiring that’s scalable, credible, and clear. These Friction-Fixers don’t just move faster. They build trust, resilience, and capability into the process itself ensuring progress doesn’t depend on heroics.
- Jo Vohland
The Internal Talent Awards (ITAs) are thrilled to reveal the 2025 finalists, recognising the incredible individuals, teams, and organisations driving talent excellence across Australia and New Zealand. This year saw a record number of high-quality submissions. Winners will be announced at the ITAs Gala on 4 September 2025 at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom.
This Week in Talent
Published every Friday morning, our This Week in Talent (TWIT) column features a guest editor plucked straight from the Talent Community who shares their favourite talent articles from around the web from the past week. It’s everything you need to know about the week that was in Talent, all in one spot!
- 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?
- Simon Hedt
For all the talk about candidate experience, most hiring processes are deeply transactional. Timelines blow out. Feedback is vague. Communication is automated. The human moments get lost in the workflow. When did we forget to just pick up the phone and have a chat? If I can leave you with anything this week, it’s this: phone before email.
- Simon Hedt
At a time when tech is advancing rapidly, it’s tempting to keep adding. But the most future-ready teams I know are doing the opposite. They’re auditing. They’re simplifying. They’re choosing tools that align with their process, not contorting their process to fit a platform. They understand that great recruitment isn’t about toolkits. It’s about clarity of thought. About process discipline. About being intentional at every stage
- Simon Hedt
The single most important thing we can do to improve hiring decisions is to standardise the interview process. Not just in structure, but in mindset. It’s about treating interviews not as informal chats or instinct-driven conversations, but as designed, repeatable systems. Because when we don’t, we introduce noise. And noise is the enemy of good judgement.
- Simon Hedt
Right now, there is a lot of change in recruitment. New tools are arriving fast. AI is already part of our world. But I believe one thing stays true. Great recruitment still comes down to people. It comes down to how we listen, how we ask, how we plan and how we show up.
- 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.
On-Demand Content
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- Nicola Harrison, Andrew Brockhoff, Jo Vohland
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 226 Talent Teams about: Talent Strategy & Funding; Effectiveness & Evolution of the Function; Talent Technology & AI; Organisational AI Readiness; and much more. In this webinar – which took place on…
- Kevin Wheeler
It’s your chance to access Kevin Wheeler’s annual Fearless Forecast from ATC2024! In this exclusive playback, hear Kevin as he delivers a bold vision for the future of talent acquisition and workforce trends accompanied by his slides from ATC2024. Kevin’s forecast is not not be missed, equipping you to stay ahead in 2025 and beyond.…
- Jo Vohland, Rebecca Warren, Trevor Vas
Aligning HR + TA with Business Strategy If there’s only one strategic imperative you can achieve in 2025, let it be alignment. When your people strategies align seamlessly with your business objectives, everything else falls into place. In this webinar, we unpack: Types of Alignment The challenge for HR and Talent Leaders is that we…
- Jo Vohland, Steve Parker
Career sites are ripe for disruption. Clunky, one-size-fits-all career sites are no longer enough to attract top talent. Candidates crave a personalised experience that resonates with their unique needs and aspirations, and guides them effortlessly through the job search process. This webinar took place on Thursday 29th August where we took a dive into the magnificent world of…
- Josh Farr
For centuries, people who felt a calling to be of service to others usually ended up in a narrow group of vocations – charity work, medicine, teaching, etc. Now we see people of all careers and backgrounds from fitness to IT looking for meaning in their work and life – to have a career that…
- Michelle Rushton
Our lives are full of meetings, conversations and interactions. This session will provide you with the tools to enhance EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM and help you create the outcomes you desire. Daniel Siegel M.D. calls this skill “mindsight”. Professor William Ickes calls it “empathic accuracy”. Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University simply calls it “mind reading”.…