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The hype around the arrival of Gen AI was off-the-scale crazy. Now that things have calmed down and the use of LLMs is starting to normalize, it can be easy to think that the hype was overblown. However, we are about to see some developments in technology that will change our mindsets entirely and start to bridge the gap between the initial hype and our current reality.

My guest this week is Jack Houghton, Co-Founder of Mindset AI. Mindset AI uses cutting-edge AI technology in the HR and Learning space. Jack talks us through the potential of Autonomous AI Agents to change how we work forever and help some of the initial hype around AI become reality.

In the interview, we discuss:

The huge developments coming in the next 12 months

How will removing the current friction in accessing Gen AI accelerate adoption?

How Autonomous AI Agents will bridge where we are and where we are going.

Tools, APIs, and logical reasoning

How do AI Agents communicate in Swarms to build workflows and intelligently manage tasks?

Ask use cases and Do use cases.

What are the limitations and the implications for jobs?

The importance of taking a strategic approach

Where might we be in 3-5 years?

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Much of the conversation about the future of talent acquisition focuses on absolutes. The questions debated revolve around whether there will actually be a need for talent acquisition in the future, whether robots will do all the recruiting, and whether most jobs will even still exist. 
While these discussions are essential, they tend to polarize opinion and don't do much to move the industry forward. We need to have nuanced conversations about the practicalities of this transformation process and focus on the skills and roles that will drive the change we need.
My guest this week is Andreea Lungulescu, Principal Talent Acquisition Partner at thermondo. Andreea strongly advocates for strategic talent acquisition and the importance of TA shaping its own destiny. She has done some significant work around the future roles talent acquisition will need and has some highly valuable insights to share

In the interview, we discuss:

Elevating the role of TA and making it strategic

The importance of understanding rapidly changing business priorities

How are employers responding to AI?

The enthusiasm vs. implementation gap

What are AI skills?

Removing silos in the talent function

Disrupting the traditional career framework in TA

What TA roles might we see in the future?

What skills do TA professionals need to develop

What is going to happen over the next 18 months


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When we talk about employers becoming more inclusive, the focus is often on big strategic thinking and a long process of organizational change. However, companies can often make significant progress by taking small steps in important areas.

The quality of the candidate's experience is the critical first step in an organization's inclusivity, and recent data indicates that quality has been dramatically deteriorating over the last 18 months.

So, what practical and immediate steps can employers take to be more inclusive with their recruiting?

My guest this week is Advita Patel from Comms Rebel. Advita is a communication and workplace culture strategist who helps organizations cultivate a culture of inclusion. In our conversation, she shares practical, pragmatic advice on how employers can build inclusive candidate experience by improving the quality of their communication.

In the interview, we discuss:

The importance of inclusive communication

Being a comms rebel

How can the recruiting process be more inclusive?

Job descriptions and degrees

Recognizing bias

Taking micro-steps 

The impact of poor communication on candidates

What can employers and individual recruiters do to improve the candidate experience?

The dangers of overly generic AI-generated language

Candidates calling out employers in public

Changing expectations of work and the importance of belonging

Will AI make things better or worse?


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It's been clear for a long time that the way we traditionally think about skills and expertise is out of step with our fast-changing and volatile world. This issue runs through the education system in many countries and also influences how employers attract and upskill talent.

So, what are the innovative approaches that could solve this problem?

My guest this week is Ed Fidoe, co-founder and CEO of the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS). LIS has been described as the most radical new university to open in decades. It offers degrees that use an interdisciplinary approach to solving some of the complex problems that business and society face. There are interesting lessons for employers here around the concept of interactional expertise.

In the interview, we discuss:

What is LIS, and why was it founded?

Building networks of knowledge

Connecting academic learning to the workplace

Enhancing employability by addressing the current mismatch of expertise between college and the workplace

Intellectual curiosity and problem-solving

Cultivating diversity of thought through diversity of background

The power of interactional expertise in the knowledge economy 

What future skills will be needed in an AI-driven world?

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If you listened to the TA Leader interviews in Episode 619, you'd know that Recruiting Future recently collaborated with The Chad & Cheese podcast to host two face-to-face unconference-style events in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

On the day between the two events, we decided to combine podcast recording with tourism. What better way to do this than to use a campervan as a mobile recording studio and drive around the southeast of Scotland, taking in some of its world-famous coastal views? Well, that was the plan anyway.

Our plans took an unexpected turn as the weather had other ideas. But this led to some exciting impromptu discussions on AI and the future of work, sparked by a tour of a two-hundred-year-old whisky distillery, a flying visit to a seven-hundred-year-old castle, and a trip to the beach.

In this episode, we discuss:

Is the resume dead?

What's going on with skills-based hiring

The differences and similarities between talent acquisition in Scotland and talent acquisition in the US

Attitudes to risk

The tricky balance between robots and humans

What does the long-term future look like

Do we have the right attitude towards the future as an industry?

AI is already taking TA jobs.

Why smaller employers may have an advantage

What happens when AI is just baked into everything?

What is going to change in the next three years


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The shortening shelf life of skills, shifting business priorities, and the surge in AI-driven job applications are compelling many employers to rethink their candidate assessment and selection processes. This shift towards skills-based thinking is fostering greater integration between talent acquisition and talent management. By combining data on soft skills, hard skills, and career aspirations, employers can leverage a unified dataset to gain a comprehensive view throughout the entire employee lifecycle.

So how can this be done, and what advantages can it bring?

My guest this week is Jason Putnam, the CRO at Plum. Jason has been driving the charge around the scientific assessment of soft skills for a while and has recently incorporated data on hard skills into their methodology. Jason has some important insights to share on the future of assessment and the implementation of skills-based hiring.

In the interview, we discuss:

How the market is evolving

The changing balance between talent acquisition and talent management

TA's responsibility for retention

Combining hard skills and soft skills

Pace paradox versus business latency

Focusing on the skills you need rather than the skills you have

The evolution of the recruiting process

Building alignment between talent acquisition, talent management, and hiring managers

The importance of one universal dataset

The role of AI


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