Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

Ep 835: How AI Is Reshaping Work And Hiring

I recorded four conversations at UNLEASH World in Paris in October, and there was one theme that kept coming up in all of them. My interviewees argued that AI is starting

Ep 834: Six Predictions For AI In HR

There is no shortage of predictions about AI in HR and hiring at the moment. Most of them come from analysts, vendors and commentators looking in from the outside. Far mo

Ep 833: Deciding What Not To Automate In Hiring

AI can automate a large and growing share of the recruiting process, and within a few years it may be capable of handling almost all of it. For employers, the question

Round Up September 2026

If you've not listened to Round Up before, it's a short review of the episodes that I've published in the last month to make sure you don't miss out on the valuable insig

Ep 832: The Human Side Of AI Readiness

AI is moving from a specialist technology to something employees in large parts of the organization are increasingly expected to be using. Skills, mindsets, and long-esta

Ep 831: The Talent Employers Are Throwing Away

Redundancies have become a constant feature of the talent market. AI is taking a lot of the blame, but the drivers behind this are much broader. Jobs and skills are chang

Ep 830: Is AI Anxiety Holding TA Teams Back?

There is a lot of pressure on talent acquisition to adopt AI, and the discussion about how to do it tends to focus on tools and skills. With layoffs attributed to AI in t

Ep 829: What TA Leaders Are Talking About Now

TA leaders have to keep delivering for the business while they use AI to transform how hiring works. At RecFest USA in Nashville, AI was the main topic of conversation, a

Ep 828: Managing Career Transitions

The world of work is changing quickly, and the way people move between roles is changing with it. Hiring for senior positions looks very different from the way it did eve

Ep 827: Agent To Agent Recruiting

Recruiting is generating more activity than ever and less connection. Candidates are using AI to produce polished applications at scale, employers are using AI to screen

Ep 826: Do AI Interviews Work?

AI is becoming more embedded across recruiting tools, but there is a meaningful difference between AI that automates workflows behind the scenes and AI that talks directl

Ep 825: The Real Risks Of Candidate Fraud

Remote hiring, freely available deepfake tools and harvested identities have created an opportunity that organized criminals are now taking seriously. State-backed operat

Round Up August 2026

If you've not listened to Round Up before, it's a short review of the episodes that I've published in the last month to make sure you don't miss out on the valuable insig

Ep 824: Is AI Creating Talent Debt?

Inside most organizations, the pressure has shifted from proving that AI works to showing what it is worth in cost, productivity and headcount. Some workforce plans are n

Ep 823: How AI Is Disrupting Entry Level Jobs

In software development, AI tools now write much of the code, and at a growing number of organizations junior developers are no longer doing that work themselves. Tech is

Ep 822: How To Win Investment For Employer Branding

Hi there, welcome to episode 822 of Recruiting Future with me, Matt Alder. Employer branding teams are still under sustained pressure. Budgets have shrunk and headcount

Ep 821: Why Every Employer Brand Sounds The Same

Employer messaging has a sameness problem. Candidates researching potential employers find the same values, the same mission statements, and the same well-meaning phrases

Ep 820: What Strategic HR Really Means

The gap between claiming to be strategic and actually operating strategically has real consequences, and nowhere are they clearer than at the top of HR. CHRO turnover is

Ep 819: Who Gets The Biggest Job In HR?

The job of Chief People Officer has never been more demanding, and the way organizations decide who gets it is changing fast. Appointment volumes have fallen sharply, boa

Ep 818: The New Hiring Decision

Skills have been on the HR agenda for decades, but they rarely became the basis for real decisions; frameworks took so long to build that the business had moved on before