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-established habits are much harder...
View ArticleEp 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 changing faster than most...
View ArticleEp 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 the headlines, the people in TA...
View ArticleEp 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, although the people I spoke to...
View ArticleEp 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 even five years ago, while many...
View ArticleEp 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 and reach out at scale, and...
View ArticleEp 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 directly to candidates. When AI...
View ArticleEp 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...
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