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

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

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