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

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

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 5 The Market

This is the final episode of Decoding the C-Suite, a five part miniseries from Recruiting Future about how leadership really thinks about AI, recorded with the leadership

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 4 - The Product

This is episode four of Decoding the C-Suite, a five part miniseries from Recruiting Future about how leadership really thinks about AI, recorded with the leadership team

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 1 - The Thesis

The organisations genuinely driving AI change in talent all have one thing in common: alignment with the C-suite. Decoding the C-Suite is a five part miniseries from Recr

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 3 - The Money

This is episode three of Decoding the C-Suite, a five part miniseries from Recruiting Future about how leadership really thinks about AI, recorded with the leadership tea

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 2 - The People

This is episode two of Decoding the C-Suite, a five part miniseries from Recruiting Future about how leadership really thinks about AI, recorded with the leadership team

Ep 817: The Human Bias Fueling Talent Shortages

Cybersecurity is one of the hardest markets to hire in, and a lot of the difficulty comes from how companies approach the process. Candidates are still being filtered on

Ep 816: Hiring For Judgment In The AI Era

There is growing consensus that AI is eroding the experience pathways organizations depend on to develop human judgment. Entry-level roles are shrinking, hands-on work is

Ep 815: Do You Know How Work Gets Done?

AI adoption is accelerating, but for most organisations it is still ad hoc. Tools are bought reactively, budgets keep growing, and few leaders can say with confidence wha

Ep 814: The Science Of Storytelling In Employer Branding

Storytelling might be the most overused word in employer branding. Every company claims to tell stories, yet most of the content being produced sounds the same from one c

Ep 813: The Strategic Case For Sourcing

AI has disrupted the dynamics of hiring. Candidates can now apply to hundreds of roles in a single click, while legal and regulatory constraints limit how far recruiters

Ep 812: Who Trains The Human In The Loop?

For the last few years, most corporate conversations about AI have been about efficiency, automating tasks, and reducing headcount. That conversation is now starting to c

Ep 811: The Hiring Problems Technology Can't Fix

TA leaders are under real pressure to keep up with AI, new tools, and what they think other employers are doing. In that rush, a lot of functions are spending heavily on

Ep 810: End-to-End Hiring Intelligence

AI has been applied to almost every step of the hiring process. Sourcing, screening, assessments, interviews; each has its own tools, and many of them are effective. For

Ep 809: The Data Foundation For AI In Hiring

Agentic AI is only as useful as the data it can access, and getting that foundation right is proving to be the harder half of the work. Years of mergers, acquisitions, an

Ep 808: The Starting Point For TA Innovation

Innovation in recruiting is hard. TA leaders are experts at running their operations, but improving them in a structured way is a different discipline, and the AI revolut