Edan Haddock - Total Talent

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Raw, unfiltered insight from inside talent acquisition and talent management. No guests. No sponsors. No agenda.Each week Edan Haddock, Head of Talent and People Experience at Movember, shares honest reflections from the front line of talent. Straight from the tools, for the people who live it every day. Episodes tackle the things the conference circuit tends to avoid: why skills-based hiring stalled, how to build a talent tech stack without the vendor gloss, what design thinking actually does for a hiring brief, why "do more with less" is a myth worth dismantling, and whether Australian talent acquisition still asks permission to belong in the global conversation.This is an independent, practitioner-led show. Nothing here is sold, sponsored or ghost-written. If you work in talent and want an unvarnished view from someone still doing the job, start anywhere.

  1. 1 day ago

    When the World Stops: The Capacity Problem Talent Has Normalised

    After an unexpected two-week break following the loss of his father-in-law and a sudden trip to Scotland, Edan returns with a personal follow-up to his recent episode on capacity planning. What happens when the person spinning all the plates suddenly has to stop? Talent teams are managing interviews, candidates, hiring managers, offers, inboxes and the constant pressure to deliver a great candidate experience. AI is helping us carry more than ever, but has it actually created capacity? Or has it simply exposed how under-resourced Talent has been for decades? This episode explores productivity versus overload, the need for genuine headroom, and why AI should help us do better, not simply do more. Because sometimes the world stops. Our Talent functions need to be designed for when it does. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  2. 28 Aug

    I Don’t Want a Promotion: Have We Completely Misunderstood Ambition?

    What if your best employee doesn’t want your job? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan challenges one of the most deeply embedded assumptions in the workplace: that ambition means moving up. What about the person who wants mastery, impact, purpose or simply a great life outside of work? And what if an exceptional candidate tells you upfront they only want to stay for a year or two? Drawing on Movember’s employer brand, “DO GOOD – Work For Movember,” Edan explores why shorter tenure doesn’t necessarily mean a bad hire, why retention might be the wrong measure of success, and why organisations need to get much more comfortable with talented people choosing their own definition of ambition. Maybe ambition was never the problem. Maybe our definition of it was. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  3. 21 Aug

    Future-Proofing Talent Acquisition: 5 Capabilities I’d Build Right Now

    The Talent Acquisition industry is nervous. Teams are shrinking, redundancies are happening, AI is accelerating and some of the work recruiters have traditionally owned is changing fast. So what do you do about it? In this episode, Edan Haddock argues that the answer isn’t to protect the traditional TA role. It’s to expand beyond it. Edan breaks down five capabilities internal Talent professionals should start building now to remain relevant and valuable in Workforce 5.0, from remuneration and salary benchmarking to workforce planning, talent management, data and designing work across humans and technology. Because the future may not belong to the person who is best at filling vacancies. It may belong to the person who can help the business decide whether a vacancy should exist in the first place. Don’t protect your role. Expand your capability. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  4. 14 Aug

    Your Name Is the Brand: When Personal and Professional Identity Collide

    Where does your professional brand end and your personal brand begin? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores how those lines are rapidly disappearing. Our opinions, expertise, personality, employers, online presence and professional reputation increasingly exist in the same place. But as personal branding becomes an industry of its own, have we started confusing visibility with credibility? Edan challenges the obsession with followers, algorithms and manufactured authenticity, explores how employees and employer brands are becoming increasingly connected, and looks at what AI-generated content could mean for the value of genuine human voice. Because your job title belongs to your employer. Your reputation belongs to you. If your job title disappeared tomorrow, what would people still know you for? No guests. No sponsors. Just an on-the-tools perspective on Talent, People and the future of work. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  5. 7 Aug

    Why Your Next Career Breakthrough Won't Come From Google

    In this episode Edan explores why access to information is no longer the competitive advantage it once was. In a world where AI can generate frameworks, answer questions and build strategies in seconds, the real value now lies in human experience, shared learning and professional community. Using the upcoming Startup People Summit as a real-world example, Edan reflects on the growing importance of specialist events that bring practitioners together to solve the challenges that can't be Googled. From AI and role design to scaling People functions and navigating Workplace 5.0, this episode explores why the best career breakthroughs often come from conversations, not search engines. If you're looking to stay ahead of the future of Talent, this is an episode not to miss. Learn more about the Startup People Summit: Startup People Summit 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  6. 31 July

    Hiring Humans, Not Roles

    For decades, organisations have been built around job descriptions, career pathways, salary bands and job architecture. But what happens when work evolves faster than we can redesign the roles themselves? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores a provocative question for the Workplace 5.0 era. What if the future isn't about hiring into predefined roles at all? As AI becomes part of our teams and human capability becomes the true competitive advantage, do traditional job architecture, remuneration frameworks and career pathways still reflect the way work gets done? This episode challenges conventional thinking around position design, benchmarking and organisational structure, while exploring a future where organisations hire adaptable humans to solve evolving business problems instead of simply filling a position description. A thought-provoking look at what the future of work could become. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  7. 24 July

    Workforce Labs: Every Organisation Has a Boardroom. Very Few Have a Rehearsal Room.

    In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan introduces the concept of the Workforce Lab - a new way of thinking about how organisations prepare for the future of work. As technology, AI and workforce expectations evolve at an unprecedented pace, Edan explores why traditional governance and annual workforce planning are no longer enough. Instead, he makes the case for creating dedicated spaces where organisations can experiment, challenge assumptions and prototype new ways of working before change is forced upon them. Drawing on his experience as a Talent practitioner, Edan shares what a Workforce Lab is, how it differs from another committee, who should be involved, and why the organisations that learn and adapt the fastest will be the ones that thrive. A thought-provoking episode for Talent, HR and business leaders looking to move beyond managing today's workforce and start designing tomorrow's. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

  8. 17 July

    The Metrics That Matter (And The Ones We Need To Let Go)

    Every Talent team has dashboards. Every Talent leader reports metrics. But are we measuring what really matters? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the difference between operational recruitment metrics and true business intelligence. From Time to Hire and Cost per Hire through to succession risk, role criticality, performance, potential and workforce resilience, this episode challenges the way Talent functions prove their value. If Talent wants a seat at the executive table, we need to stop reporting activity and start telling stories that help leaders make better business decisions. 🎙️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes.  1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. 🎧 Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. 👉 Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent. Together, we can help change the face of men's health. 💛

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Raw, unfiltered insight from inside talent acquisition and talent management. No guests. No sponsors. No agenda.Each week Edan Haddock, Head of Talent and People Experience at Movember, shares honest reflections from the front line of talent. Straight from the tools, for the people who live it every day. Episodes tackle the things the conference circuit tends to avoid: why skills-based hiring stalled, how to build a talent tech stack without the vendor gloss, what design thinking actually does for a hiring brief, why "do more with less" is a myth worth dismantling, and whether Australian talent acquisition still asks permission to belong in the global conversation.This is an independent, practitioner-led show. Nothing here is sold, sponsored or ghost-written. If you work in talent and want an unvarnished view from someone still doing the job, start anywhere.

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  • Creator
    Edan Haddock
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    42
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    © 2026 Edan Haddock - Total Talent
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