TaPod - We Talk Talent Acquisition.

On our special TaPod does ATC series, we catch up with Meredith Johnson – Chief Product Officer and Carin Van Vuuren – Chief Marketing Officer at Greenhouse. We discuss the AI Doom Loop, Greenhouse Dream Job, helping job seekers to stand out, candidate fraud, brands that stand out, training to use new technology and AI ethics. It’s a fascinating discussion covering all the issues we, in TA, are fa...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. We have all kinds of stories, including One Nation shenanigans, latest unemployment figures, Public Service wants a pay rise, Bikies running recruitment in Adelaide, HR becomes RR, a happy little recruitment romance in China and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events.  Thanks to Indeed for partnering...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with the brilliant Kevin Wheeler, live from the ATC as he delivers his Fearless Forecast, and are you in for a treat! In his unique way, Kevin doesn’t hold back on what’s in store for the future of recruitment. He forces us all to take a good long hard look in the mirror and face the challenges of changing demand, AI and evolution as we help define our industry. If...

Join us for a special Tapod episode, where we get under the hood of Australia's new home for TA – the Talent Acquisition Association of Australia – the TAAA. Launched 2 weeks ago as Australia’s only professional association for Talent Acquisition we were hoping for 400 members in the first year and we are close to 500 in the first 2 weeks! We are all about raising professional standards, trai...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. We have all kinds of stories live from ATC 2026 including,  Microsoft getting a slap and a hug on the same day, Amazon still laying off staff while investing in AI, Lauren from Indeed joins us to speak EB, Upwork and Apple have some great new jobs, small business prioritising retention, gender pay gap hits AI Agentsand muc...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Annalise Neal, Senior Talent Partner at Culture Amp who won the Enterprise Talent Professional of the Year Award at the 2026 Internal Talent Awards. Exceeding her personal target by 25%, Annalise describes herself as process-obsessed and loves looking for efficiencies. From reducing times to hire by 33% to building talent pools to changing hiring manager thinki...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. We have all kinds of stories, including fun and frivolity in Hobart, police recruitment in the mud, plenty on LinkedIn, data centre recruitment thriving, ADF improving the trade drain, Snoop Dogg recruits an ice cream taster, and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events.  Thanks to Indeed for partnerin...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Kimberley Manning, Director of TA – Australia & NZ at Delaware North, and Aaron Smith, co-founder & CTO at Check Work Rights, who won the Best Vendor Solution Award at the 2026 Internal Talent Awards sponsored by TaPod. Championing compliance is a real point of difference in Delaware North’s GTM, and with over 7000 employees, this can be a huge challeng...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week Lauren is off, and Bonnie is back and misbehaving. We have all kinds of stories including, working for free is not on, candidates prefer to interview with bots, Christmas comes early, Aussies scrambling for second jobs, the ‘profiler’ is the recruitment superhero we all need, Gen Z looking for new roles and much...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Kristy Glew and Jessica Raslan from Each, who won the Excellence in Candidate Experience Award at the 2026 Internal Talent Awards sponsored by Havas People. Servicing over 36,000 applicants, CX is a real focus for the team at Each. From their recruit and onboard hub to support hiring managers, to over 70 language translations, to accessibility enhancements to a...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week Craig is off, Bonnie jumps into his seat, and we are in for a bucket of fun, including Gen Z turns up to interviews with an iced coffee, Fair Work in the news again, Virgin cancels flights over cabin crew resourcing, changes to skilled migration visas, brutal UK numbers for over 50 job seekers, transgender social...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Emma Cassidy – Group Head of Talent Acquisition & Workforce Solutions at Ampol. In a triple threat, Ampol won the Enterprise Talent Team of the Year, and the Best Contingent Workforce Program at ITAs’ 2026… throw in Emma’s own individual award for Enterprise Talent Leader of the Year and it was an exclamation point on a year of transformation and success. J...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles including, AI redundancies being hired back, Japanese are getting recruitment creative, non-compete clauses being removed under legislation, WFH changes stall, crazy reason a candidate was rejected, surge in AI-generated applications pushing recruitment processes out, judge blocks Tru...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Rebecca Houghton, Australia’s leading Middle Management Expert, Founder of BoldHR, Speaker, Best-selling Author and a brilliant person to boot! Today, we’re discussing the ‘B-Suite Benchmarks Report', the only comprehensive study of Middle Managers in Australia. We drill down on a variety of statistics, causes, risks and remedies including 21% of Middle Ma...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles including, WFH laws might just be unconstitutional, recruiter rocks up for an interview straight from Vegas, talent gaps driving jobs offshore, bots keep interviewers on their toes, over 1 million holding down 2 (or more) jobs in Australia, man pretends to hallucinate in a job intervi...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Jake Ellul, TA Manager at Consolidated Power Projects, all the way from Adelaide. They are doing great things at CPP – moving from a recruitment delivery function to a full strategic workforce partner. We talk tech, ‘C’ suite buy-in and transformation. And it all starts with trust and relationships. Thanks to Smart Recruiters for partnering with us for this epi...

It’s time for all the best TA & Recruitment News from here and around the globe with the Scoop. Presented by the number 1 TA podcast in APAC – TaPod. We cover all kinds of drama including, the job market is broken according to Wired, strikes and more strikes in Australia and NZ, North Korean spies infiltrate US Government, Fair Work pass on costs for AI slop, the FBI open to hiring prostitutes...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Deepak Singh, Culture & DE&I expert at Mission and Rhythm. Deepak really knows his stuff, having been named in the top 12 at the HR Influencer Awards 2026. According to Deepak, great culture comes from great leadership, and that is the place we need to focus on to generate meaning in the workplace. Most of us are carrying a lot of work weight and stress...

Join us for a special Tapod episode, where we catch up with Adam Godson – GM Talent Acquisition Products at Workday and former CEO at Paradox. We talk new products, enhancements, and updates at Workday. As well as touch on the excitement of the Workday/Paradox marriage. Adam is super excited with where HR Tech is headed and gives us great insights into what the next couple of years might look like...

Welcome to TaPod’s 600th episode! It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, unemployment on the up, Workday valuation is through the roof, KPMG shrinking under scandal, interviewer catches candidate out, Fair Work Commission hands out new rules, LinkedIn profile edits creating risk, FedEx workers to strike, Google doesn’t tr...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with the brilliant Jo Vohland, Director, Curator & Event Host from ATC. And today we are all about the 2026 State of TA Report. With almost 250 Talent Teams contributing to a 41-page report and 18,000 data cells. It is chock-full of information from maturity levels, to the impact of AI, to what’s driving industry-wide redundancies, to restructuring, to skills, a...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, including Harvard finds women on Ozempic have better work prospects, Lauren goes whack on Oracle, digital literacy required in 90% of all roles, Hobart is Australia’s best city for career growth, 24% of AI job interviews happening in the middle of the night, Lunar the AI Agent dismis...

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Emi Beredugo, Senior Manager – Recruiting Enablement @Elastic, Non-Executive Director, Advisory Board Member, Speaker & Podcaster and most importantly a bloody fantastic person. We talk AI and specifically what’s next for TA. Emi is very, very clear—we need to stop prompting and start building—but what should we be building? And more importantly, where the...

On our special TaPod does Recfest UK series, we catch up with Lia Manafova -  Talent Tech Strategy Lead at Sanofi. If you want to hear about a real transformation journey Lia has got a story for you! Integrating Paradox (a Workday company) into their business saved 38.6 minutes via email applications and 84.5 minutes via WhatsApp while still focusing on candidate experience, and fully automated sc...

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, including Deel and Rippling in new drama, the EU AI Act in force, job ads on the up, Lauren gets political, Craig has marbles in his mouth, the candidate putting cricket ahead of Saturdays, AI users maybe working longer hours, and candidates getting smarter… or are they? And much mor...