Arctic Shores

TA Disruptors

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Talent acquisition is changing faster than it ever has before. ChatGPT and other GenAI tools are literally turning the selection process on its head. This podcast is designed for disruptive Talent Acquisition leaders who want to get ahead. For the innovators, the movers and shakers, and the TA leaders who will survive and thrive in this new era by moving quickly to future-proof their recruitment processes. Even when you’re feeling overworked and overwhelmed, we’ll help you keep up with the latest ideas from the industry’s brightest innovators and the freshest need-to-know data from new researc...

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A change from usual programming – everything you need to know about Task-based Assessments according to an Occupational Psychologist with more than two decades experience 30.04.2024 49:37

In a change from our usual programming, we’re shaking things up this week on the TA Disruptors podcast.  Later this week we’ll be publishing “The pragmatist’s playbook for skills-based hiring” –– featuring contributions from many members of the TA Disruptors community. In the playbook –– among many things –– we unpack the critical role of the Task-based Assessment in helping TA teams eva...

Automating TA and breaking through the ‘treacle Layer’: Igniting passion in Hiring Managers, uncovering Potential and piloting skills-based hiring | with Andrea Marston 23.04.2024 55:06

Andrea Marston is a trailblazer. As a Global Talent Acquisition leader who has spearheaded TA teams at the likes of Workday, Finastra, AOL, Huddle, Oracle, and most recently at VMware (now part of Broadcom), Andrea’s advice on overcoming TA’s biggest challenges is not to be missed.   And having played a pivotal role in scaling several multi-billion-dollar enterprises in hyper-competitive...

Salary transparency, cultivating a personal LinkedIn brand, and how skills-based recruitment can address TA’s internal mobility challenge | with Dominic Joyce, Head of TA and Linkedin Top Voice 16.04.2024 47:21

If you’ve been in TA for a while, then you’ve probably come across Dominic Joyce on LinkedIn. As a LinkedIn Top Voice with more than 50,000 followers, an experienced CV-coach, and a decade of experience in TA leading teams at the likes of HSBC, Reed, Klarna and mostly recently as Head of Talent Acquisition at Travelex, Dom is a leader whose opinion you’ll want to hear.  Having reviewed over 1...

Bridging the UK's Skills Gap: How to win in a skills crisis AND avoid overspending on recruitment | with Rebecca George CBE 09.04.2024 37:32

Rebecca George CBE is one of the UK’s leading experts on skills, serving as the Skills Advisor at the Department for Education and a Non-Executive Director at the Metropolitan Police. With twenty years at IBM and nearly fifteen years at Deloitte under her belt, Rebecca is a staunch supporter of skills reform –– her insights into the skills shortage, inter-employer partnerships, and the necessity o...

Recruitment in the era of the AI-enabled candidate. Skills-based hiring. And so much more | The best bits from season one with Robert Newry and guests 01.02.2024 29:42

Somehow we’ve reached the end of season one of the TA Disruptors podcast… and what a ride it’s been. If you want to remind yourself of the biggest takeaways from this season all in one place, you’ll want to listen to this episode. Join Robert as he shares the best bits from season one and reflects on what we’ve learned throughout our first season of the TA Disruptors podcast, as well as sharing hi...

“GenAI threatens the validity and fairness of traditional assessments” | Claudia Nuttgens discusses how AMS is rethinking skills-based hiring and the problems with using SJTs 25.01.2024 45:56

Claudia Nuttgens is a TA powerhouse. As a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Executive Coach with over 20 years of experience –– and as the leader of the highly-regarded Assessment Advisory team at AMS –– Claudia’s perspectives on where we must innovate across our assessment and selection strategies this year are ones that every TA team needs to hear.   Whether you’re looking for ad...

Does AI make human qualities less relevant than they were before? Hung Lee on five controversial questions facing TA teams and the problem with mass apply tech 18.01.2024 44:56

We’re starting 2024 with a bang, as we dive head-on into some of the most controversial questions TA teams must find an answer to this year with Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee.  Before you switch off, this is not another 2024 trends report. Instead, it’s a thoughtful, deeply considered, scarily accurate deep dive into the reality facing TA teams this January… with some uncomfortable truths t...

“GenAI makes it EASIER for us to assess skills, not harder" | JLL's Global Talent Sourcing Director, Amanda Pleasant on driving AI adoption, building JLL-GPT, and implementing skills-first hiring 07.12.2023 45:43

Amanda Pleasant is JLL’s Global Talent Sourcing Director. She's responsible for a global team of Sourcers across 80 countries, filling around 30,000 roles a year. And she’s taking every single one of them on a journey to embrace GenAI.   If you’re wondering how to drive internal transformation, embed a culture of experimentation, and drive the adoption of new tech across a global team, you’ll...

Siadhal Magos of Metaview on lessons from hiring at Uber, whether AI can actually reduce bias, and AI’s role in decision-making – fresh debate on where ethics and efficiency collide 30.11.2023 42:50

Siadhal Magos founded Metaview after going through an intense period of scaling at Uber. The business went from 7,000 to 15,000 people in just 24 months. And while he was highly tech-enabled in other areas of his work, hiring felt like it was lagging behind.  Even as a hiring manager he felt the pain, inefficiency, and toil of the hiring process, and realised that TA teams must have been feel...

Why the team behind the Civil Service Fast Stream are cautiously optimistic about an AI-enabled world –– balancing efficiency and ethics, redesigning assessment, and building algorithms 23.11.2023 44:55

The Director of Government Skills at the Cabinet Office, Sonia Pawson IS currently spearheading a team of 250 talent professionals responsible for delivering some of the most highly regarded graduate programmes in the UK, including the Civil Service Fast Stream.    As a chartered occupational psychologist, Sonia is one of a rare breed able to balance being an academic and a practiti...

HelloFresh WANT candidates to apply using GenAI –– Yasar Ahmad on why he’s making the application process harder, Talent 6.0, and driving innovation in a 200-strong TA team 16.11.2023 53:10

Yasar Ahmad is the Global Vice President of Talent, Mobility and Rewards at HelloFresh. And he WANTS candidates to apply for roles at HelloFresh using GenAI. Join our TA Disruptors podcast host, Robert Newry, as he and Yasar unpack: How HelloFresh are approaching Talent 6.0 Why candidates applying for 100s of roles with just one click is a GOOD thing for TA teams… And why we need to act now to ada...

"ChatGPT means we need a workforce that’s MORE skilled, not less” | Senior Data Scientist, Jasper Wolf discusses how ChatGPT is transforming recruitment 09.11.2023 46:39

Why are some Talent Acquisition leaders having to resift, scrap text-based applications altogether, or go back to manually screening every candidate?  What does the education sector’s approach to Generative AI tell us about the tidal wave of change that is about to make itself known in assessment and selection? When people talk about the ethical conundrum that tools like ChatGPT put recr...