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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. 10h ago

    30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. | The Series 3 Finale

    Series 3 of Edan Haddock – Total Talent is coming to a close, but something much bigger is about to begin. From 1 November, Edan is launching Series 4 with an ambitious challenge: 30 consecutive days of podcasting to raise $20,000 for Movember. In this special launch episode, Edan explains why men's health matters, where Movember donations go, and how listeners can help make a genuine difference. Expect 30 days of Talent, People Experience, emerging technology, innovation and thought-provoking conversations. Still independent. Still no guests. Still no sponsors. But this time, with a mission much bigger than the podcast itself. The goal: $20,000 for men's health. Listen. Follow. Share. Donate. Donate: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Learn about Movember's programs: https://movember.com/our-programs Let's make November count. 🎙️ 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. Oct 16

    UPLIFT 2026: The Future of Talent Is Human. And That's the Point.

    Two days. Incredible insights. And a powerful reminder of what makes the Talent community so special. In this episode, Edan Haddock reflects on his experience as MC of the ATC2026 Annual Conference in Melbourne, unpacking the biggest themes shaping the future of Talent Acquisition. From AI agents and the evolution of Talent Advisory to workforce planning, candidate experience, employer branding and the growing commercial expectations of Talent professionals, Edan explores the insights that challenged his thinking and what they mean for our industry. But beyond the technology and transformation, something else stood out. Kindness. Connection. Community. Edan shares why ATC2026 felt unlike any other industry event he's attended, celebrating the people, generosity and genuine sense of belonging that made the experience extraordinary. Because as our profession becomes increasingly technology-enabled, perhaps our greatest opportunity is to become even more human. The future of Talent isn't just about lifting capability. It's about lifting each other. 🎙️ 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. Oct 9

    We Stopped Recruiting. We Started Acquiring. What Are We Calling Ourselves Next?

    Personnel became Human Resources. HR became People and Culture. Recruitment became Talent Acquisition. But what's next? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan explores the evolution of our industry's identity, the changing expectations of Talent professionals, and whether our fancy new job titles genuinely reflect the work we're doing. From Talent Intelligence and Strategic Talent Advisory to Talent Architecture, Workforce Strategy and Talent Orchestration, Edan unpacks emerging titles and what they reveal about the future of our profession. As organisations move towards Workforce 5.0, where humans and technology increasingly work together, is acquiring talent still the right way to describe what we do? Perhaps the future isn't about filling vacancies, but understanding, developing and orchestrating capability. Are we genuinely evolving as a profession, or simply getting better at rebranding recruitment? 🎙️ 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. Oct 2

    When Networking Becomes Noise

    LinkedIn was once one of the best places to make genuine professional connections. But what happens when the inbox becomes so noisy that we simply stop looking? In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan tackles the growing flood of LinkedIn messages, from automated sales pitches and relentless follow-ups to the familiar “I just applied for your role and wanted to introduce myself.” With his own inbox now approaching 100 messages a day, Edan asks whether we need a new standard of LinkedIn etiquette. Has automation made reaching people so easy that we’re destroying the value of being able to reach them at all? And if our LinkedIn inboxes become another dumping ground for spam, what happens to the genuine human connection that made the platform valuable in the first place? Maybe it’s time we stopped asking how to send more messages and started thinking about which messages actually deserve to be sent. No guests. No sponsors. Just Total Talent. 🎙️ 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. Sep 25

    Can You Boycott AI and Still Have a Career?

    Two candidates. Two withdrawals. And the same concern: they weren’t comfortable working for an organisation that uses AI. In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan explores a question we’re probably going to hear much more often: Can you boycott AI and still have a career? From legitimate concerns around creativity, the environment, privacy and job displacement, to the reality that AI is rapidly becoming embedded in the everyday technology organisations use, this episode looks at what happens when personal values collide with the changing world of work. Could “AI-free” workplaces become a genuine niche? Could refusing to work alongside AI eventually limit employability? And perhaps most importantly, can we embrace technology while actually becoming more human, not less? No guests. No sponsors. Just a conversation about one of the more complicated questions emerging from Workforce 5.0. 🎙️ 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. Sep 18

    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. 💛

  7. Aug 28

    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. 💛

  8. Aug 21

    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. 💛

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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
    2026
  • Episodes
    47
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