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- Jo Vohland
The Internal Talent Awards (ITAs) were held on September 4th, 2025, to recognise the achievement and innovation of key players in the Internal Talent Acquisition industry. It has the highest volume of nominations yet, and the 18 winners, along with the sponsors of the 16 awards.
- Jo Vohland
The seismic shift to remote and hybrid work has reshaped the workplace. Flexibility has become not just an expectation but a competitive advantage for many employers. Yet in 2025, despite its proven benefits, a growing number of organisations are walking back this progress, mandating time in the office and reducing employee choice.
- Marrin-Boyd Andrews
The AI conversation has shifted. One model won’t cover every need: different teams demand different strengths. Leaders now face the task of orchestrating multiple LLMs, balancing speed with safety, creativity with compliance. Success comes from governance, IP protection, and building internal systems (sometimes entire GPTs) that turn AI into a strategic capability. 1: Why One…
- Daniel Balout, Jo Vohland, Maree Fiore, Faye Jackson
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 151 Talent Acquisition Leaders from some of Australia’s largest employers to uncover how they’re managing high-volume hiring in 2025. We investigated the balance between automation and human touch, key hiring metrics, and…
- Jo Vohland
Delivered in partnership with our friends at Paradox, the 2025 State of Volume Hiring Report...
- Jo Vohland
Delivered in partnership with our friends at Eightfold, the 2025 State of Talent Acquisition Report is a resource for Talent Teams to get a better idea of where Talent Acquisition is headed and provide benchmark data against which to review their own function. These results give us a clear insight into current recruitment trends, how talent teams are feeling, and what the talent priorities are right now.
This Week in Talent
Published every Friday morning, our This Week in Talent (TWIT) column features a guest editor plucked straight from the Talent Community who shares their favourite talent articles from around the web from the past week. It’s everything you need to know about the week that was in Talent, all in one spot!
- Jo Vohland, Aubrey Blanche
As AI and new work models take hold, expectations on HR and Talent Leaders will intensify, with new role requirements quickly emerging. Interviews will test not only your past expertise but also your ability to lead the evolving programs of work. Jo Vohland collaborated with HR & Equitable Design Leader, Aubrey Blanche to map out some examples of Interview Questions you may soon be asked.
- Olga Barrett
Thinking of hiring in APAC? Forget one-size-fits-all. From China to Vietnam, Singapore to Japan, every market moves to its own beat - culturally, economically, and legally. What worked yesterday won’t work today, and what works here might fail there. Talent pools shift, policies tighten, and candidates’ priorities evolve faster than most playbooks can keep up. Dive in to uncover the realities, myths, and strategies that actually work when expanding across East Asia - warts, wins, and all.
- Olga Barrett
TA leaders often fight for credibility despite driving revenue through strategic hiring. This is my take on how to quantify TA's business impact, shift from order-taker to advisor, and build data-driven operations, calculate hiring ROI, optimise budgets, and position TA as a profit centre - not just overhead.
- Olga Barrett
Too often 'Agile' means 'we have no deadlines or planning', 'we react to every whim', 'need for speed, quality is secondary'. In fact, any mess can be justified as an 'Agile approach', and if you dare ask for structure or sanity, you risk being labelled 'rigid'.
The Agile Manifesto, born when developers, sick of siloed work, realised the only way to satisfy customers was through collaboration. With geographical expansion, demand surges and spikes, high volume of niche roles and business pressures to keep productivity up and cost per hire down came some big changes. Working just in your locale with occasional 'support' from others was not an option anymore. Before adopting Agile, we had to embody its core principle: being agile - able to move quickly and easily. When role surges hit, we assembled cross-border project teams (TA Leads, Ops, Sourcers, Marketing).
- Olga Barrett
Skills-based recruitment has become increasingly popular in the last few years, and for a good reason. We are looking at a range of sizeable benefits that happen to be especially relevant in the world of the gig-economy upsurge and talent scarcity.
After we finally admitted that the past does not necessarily define the future, and that lie detectors and psychological testing can predict one’s success only slightly better than astrology and fortune telling, many companies came to realise that when done right, skills-based recruitment is quite cost-effective.
And indeed, what is there not to love?
- Simon Hedt
For all the talk about candidate experience, most hiring processes are deeply transactional. Timelines blow out. Feedback is vague. Communication is automated. The human moments get lost in the workflow. When did we forget to just pick up the phone and have a chat? If I can leave you with anything this week, it’s this: phone before email.
On-Demand Content
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- Daniel Balout, Jo Vohland, Maree Fiore, Faye Jackson
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 151 Talent Acquisition Leaders from some of Australia’s largest employers to uncover how they’re managing high-volume hiring in 2025. We investigated the balance between automation and human touch, key hiring metrics, and…
- Nicola Harrison, Andrew Brockhoff, Jo Vohland
Want to know what everyone in TA is thinking about right now, and how your Talent Team compares? In March 2025, we surveyed 226 Talent Teams about: Talent Strategy & Funding; Effectiveness & Evolution of the Function; Talent Technology & AI; Organisational AI Readiness; and much more. In this webinar – which took place on…
- Kevin Wheeler
It’s your chance to access Kevin Wheeler’s annual Fearless Forecast from ATC2024! In this exclusive playback, hear Kevin as he delivers a bold vision for the future of talent acquisition and workforce trends accompanied by his slides from ATC2024. Kevin’s forecast is not not be missed, equipping you to stay ahead in 2025 and beyond.…
- Jo Vohland, Rebecca Warren, Trevor Vas
Aligning HR + TA with Business Strategy If there’s only one strategic imperative you can achieve in 2025, let it be alignment. When your people strategies align seamlessly with your business objectives, everything else falls into place. In this webinar, we unpack: Types of Alignment The challenge for HR and Talent Leaders is that we…
- Jo Vohland, Steve Parker
Career sites are ripe for disruption. Clunky, one-size-fits-all career sites are no longer enough to attract top talent. Candidates crave a personalised experience that resonates with their unique needs and aspirations, and guides them effortlessly through the job search process. This webinar took place on Thursday 29th August where we took a dive into the magnificent world of…
- Josh Farr
For centuries, people who felt a calling to be of service to others usually ended up in a narrow group of vocations – charity work, medicine, teaching, etc. Now we see people of all careers and backgrounds from fitness to IT looking for meaning in their work and life – to have a career that…