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 operations are training workers to...
View ArticleRound 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 insights that my guests are...
View ArticleEp 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 now being decided on that basis...
View ArticleEp 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 where the impact on a first...
View ArticleEp 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 has been reduced across many...
View ArticleEp 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 wherever they look, which...
View ArticleEp 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 unusually high at the moment,...
View ArticleEp 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, boards are rethinking what they...
View ArticleEp 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 they were finished. What’s...
View ArticleDecoding 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 team at SmartRecruiters seven...
View ArticleDecoding 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 at SmartRecruiters seven...
View ArticleDecoding 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 team at SmartRecruiters seven...
View ArticleDecoding 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 at SmartRecruiters seven...
View ArticleDecoding 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 Recruiting Future exploring how...
View ArticleEp 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 degrees, previous employers,...
View ArticleEp 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 being automated, and fewer...
View ArticleEp 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 what is being used, what is...
View ArticleEp 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 company to the next, and AI is...
View ArticleEp 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 can use AI to review what...
View ArticleEp 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 change, with more attention on...
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