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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. 5h ago

    The CV Is Losing Its Grip

    What happens when AI writes the CV, AI screens the CV, and the two humans involved never actually speak? In Episode 16, Edan explores why traditional, resume-led recruitment is struggling to keep pace with an AI-driven workforce, particularly when it comes to graduates, career changers and early-career talent. Drawing on a fascinating conversation and platform demonstration with Natalia Tapia from GradStack, Edan explores the shift towards verified skills and capabilities, digital human profiles, AI fluency and a more inclusive approach to recognising talent from alternative pathways. Could the future of recruitment be less about where you've worked or studied, and more about what you can actually do? From rethinking job descriptions to challenging the hype around agentic AI, this episode asks whether we're genuinely improving hiring decisions or simply automating the same old processes. Because the future of Talent shouldn't be about processing more applications. It should be about recognising more potential. Explore GradStack: https://www.gradstack.ai/ Connect with Natalia Tapia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliatapia33/ 🎙️ 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. 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. 1d ago

    Your Hiring Data Is Worthless If You Can't Use It

    We're collecting more recruitment data than ever before. But are we actually using it to make better hiring decisions? In Episode 15, Edan explores how Talent Acquisition can move beyond spreadsheets, disconnected systems and gut-feel decisions to become a genuine driver of business performance. Drawing on conversations with Will Ainsley and Amy Wilson from Testgrid, Edan takes a closer look at their newly launched hiring intelligence platform, exploring structured assessments, recruitment automation, candidate intelligence and the importance of transparent, evidence-based hiring decisions. From graduate programs to high-volume recruitment, this episode challenges Talent professionals to think beyond filling vacancies and start demonstrating their impact on retention, productivity and business outcomes. Because the future of Talent isn't about collecting more data. It's about knowing what to do with it. Explore Testgrid: https://testgrid.com/ Connect with Will Ainsley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-ainsley-063b673b/ Connect with Amy Wilson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilsonamy/ 🎙️ 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. 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. 2d ago

    The Application Avalanche. Is Your Talent Team Ready?

    What happens when the number of applications hitting your recruitment team increases tenfold? In Episode 14 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan explores the growing challenge of application overload and asks whether Talent Acquisition is prepared for a future where AI makes applying for jobs almost effortless. Drawing on a conversation with Will Russell from Outhire, Edan examines how AI-powered screening is changing recruitment, from giving more candidates the opportunity to interview to freeing Talent professionals from repetitive administration. This episode is particularly personal. Edan is already using Outhire's AI interview agent, Joel, at Movember, giving him firsthand experience of the technology, candidate reactions and the importance of maintaining human choice. But this isn't just about automation. It's about protecting candidate experience, recognising genuine talent among thousands of applications and ensuring technology enhances rather than replaces human judgement. Because the future of recruitment isn't about processing more applications. It's about making sure the right people don't get lost in the noise. Explore Outhire: https://outhire.ai Connect with Will Russell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wills-russell/ 🎙️ 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. 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. 3d ago

    Your Engagement Score Is Lying to You

    What if your organisation's engagement score is improving, but the people you most need to listen to are being overlooked? In Episode 13 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan challenges our obsession with employee engagement scores and asks whether we're measuring what really matters. For this episode, Edan spent time with Rezza Moieni and Quincy Hall from Cultural Infusion, exploring their platform, Atlas, and its approach to understanding the cultural and demographic complexity of today's workforce. From the dangers of averages and outdated survey questions to the importance of cultural representation, psychological safety and employee trust, Edan explores why a healthy engagement score doesn't necessarily mean everybody is having a positive experience at work. The episode also examines how Atlas connects detailed cultural insights with employee sentiment, helping organisations identify experiences and patterns that traditional engagement surveys might miss. But collecting better data is only half the challenge. If organisations aren't prepared to listen, understand and act on what their people are telling them, what's the point of asking? Because workplace culture isn't a number on a dashboard. It's the experience of the people behind it. Explore Atlas by Cultural Infusion: https://culturalinfusion.com/ Connect with Rezza Moieni https://www.linkedin.com/in/rezza-moieni/ Connect with Quincy Hall https://www.linkedin.com/in/quincy-hall-7784b4201/ 🎙️ 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. 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. 4d ago

    The AI Hiring Arms Race. And the Candidates Caught in the Middle

    What happens when candidates use AI to write their applications, and recruiters use AI to decide whether to read them? In Episode 12 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan explores the growing AI arms race in recruitment and asks a confronting question: Are we actually getting better at hiring people, or simply faster at processing them? As application volumes increase and automated screening becomes more sophisticated, the recruitment process risks becoming a conversation between algorithms, with real people caught somewhere in the middle. For this episode, Edan spent time with Winnie Nguyen, founder of Australian recruitment technology startup Prism, exploring how the platform is challenging conventional approaches to candidate matching, screening and assessment. From skills-based matching and transferable capabilities to structured AI-assisted interviews and evidence-based decision-making, Edan examines how emerging technology could help recruiters manage overwhelming application volumes without sacrificing fairness or transparency. But there's a bigger issue at play. If an algorithm excludes a candidate, can we actually explain why? The episode challenges the industry's growing reliance on candidate rankings, suitability scores and automated recommendations, exploring the dangers of automation bias and why human oversight must mean more than simply approving what technology recommends. Because the future of recruitment shouldn't be about rejecting people faster. It should be about making better, fairer and more defensible hiring decisions. Explore Prism: https://prismplatform.co/ Connect with Winnie Nguyen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/winnie-nguyen-prism/  🎙️ 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. 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. 5d ago

    You Didn't Hire Them to Be Onboarded. You Hired Them to Perform

    We've become incredibly good at welcoming new employees. But how good are we at actually setting them up to succeed? In Episode 11 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan challenges the traditional approach to onboarding and asks whether organisations have confused completing a process with achieving an outcome. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Jack Cartwright from Enboarder, exploring how onboarding is evolving beyond welcome emails, checklists and first-day experiences towards something much more meaningful: time to readiness. The episode explores why recruitment success shouldn't necessarily end when somebody accepts an offer or starts work, how organisations can define what being genuinely ready looks like for different roles, and why the first 30, 60 and 90 days should focus on building confidence, capability and connection. Edan also explores Enboarder's approach to personalised employee journeys, manager involvement, role-specific development and using technology to turn onboarding from an administrative exercise into an experience that supports real performance. But there's an important distinction. Getting people ready faster shouldn't mean putting them under more pressure. The episode challenges organisations to think about readiness as something they enable, rather than something they demand, and why technology alone can't compensate for poor leadership, unclear expectations or inadequate support. Because perhaps the next evolution of Talent Acquisition isn't simply about reducing the time it takes to hire someone. It's about reducing the time it takes to help them succeed. Explore Enboarder: https://enboarder.com/ Connect with Jack Cartwright: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackcaspercartwright/ 🎙️ 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. 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. 6d ago

    Your Biggest Hiring Risk Might Already Work for You

    We spend enormous amounts of time verifying people before they join an organisation. But what happens after they start? In Episode 10 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan challenges the way organisations think about background screening and asks whether compliance has become too focused on a single moment in time. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Nick Cheetham from Checkmate, exploring how the risk landscape is changing and why background screening may need to evolve into something much broader: ongoing workforce assurance. The episode explores candidate fraud, identity verification and the increasing sophistication of fabricated credentials, but the bigger question comes after someone is hired. A police check tells you what was true when it was conducted. A licence can expire. Working rights can change. Someone can move into a role with a completely different risk profile. So why do we put so much effort into verification before Day One, then potentially never look again? Edan explores the balance between verification and suspicion, why ongoing compliance should be proportionate to genuine risk, whether some identity checks may eventually move earlier in recruitment, and how organisations can protect themselves without creating a culture where candidates and employees feel fundamentally distrusted. Because compliance shouldn't be about collecting ticks. It should be about understanding where the real risk sits and verifying the things that genuinely matter, at the point they genuinely matter. And sometimes... your biggest hiring risk might already work for you. Explore Checkmate: https://www.checkmate.tech/au Connect with Nick Cheetham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcheetham/ 🎙️ 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. 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. Nov 8

    Your Workforce Plan Shouldn't Live in a Spreadsheet

    What if your workforce planning isn't really workforce planning at all, but a collection of systems, spreadsheets and dashboards being held together behind the scenes? In Episode 9 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan explores why workforce planning remains so fragmented and why Talent, HR and Finance need to start working from the same picture of the workforce. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Sam Wilkan and Maaike van Dijk from Rippling, exploring what happens when headcount planning, remuneration, performance, payroll, Talent and workforce data start connecting rather than operating as separate processes. The episode looks at the important distinction between people and positions, why Talent needs visibility of workforce demand before a requisition lands, and how connected data could move Talent Acquisition from reacting to vacancies to genuinely planning for future capability. Edan also reflects on his own experience bringing HR, Talent and Finance data together through Power BI, the risks of workforce intelligence relying on manually connected systems, and why AI is only as useful as the workforce data sitting underneath it. Because workforce planning shouldn't simply answer: How many people do we need? It should help answer: What workforce do we need? And if the answer still requires someone to export six spreadsheets and make them agree, there might be a bigger problem to solve. Explore Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/ Connect with Sam Wilkan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-wilkan/ Connect with Maaike van Dijk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maaikevdijk/ 🎙️ 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. 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
    63
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