TaPod - We Talk Talent Acquisition.

This week on TaPod we are joined by industry legend Alissa Patoulios – Senior Director Sourcing and Talent Acquisition at Optus. Alissa leads an amazing function that has achieved some amazing things and she lets us in for a sneaky little look at the internal machinations of their team… Why don’t you join us? Thanks to Oncore Services for your support this month.

Today on Tapod we sit down with our sponsor Oncore to talk all things Contingent Workforce.  Emilie Bansel (Head of Customer Success) and Carl Oates (Head of Key Accounts) break down what Enterprise Clients are really looking for when it comes to Contractors. We talk about Oncore's recent State of Contracting Report and what trends are developing. Maybe the most exciting thing was that the en...

This week on The Scoop, the team from Tapod bring you all the TA & Recruitment News including updates on the labour market, parental leave, should candidates meet prospective teammates prior to offer, record high for female chairs and much, much more. Thanks so much to Indeed for your continued support in bringing you the industry news.

This week on TaPod we are joined by Al Schirmer – Talent Tech Strategist who about to take on a huge Global Role. But before he does, we grabbed him to take the temperature of Rec-Tech. We cover AI (of course), Skills-based recruitment and many other solutions and tech  we may not have otherwise thought about. You need to be over this – you really do, and thanks to Al we have all the answers. Than...

Today on TaPod we bring you a very special episode from our friends at Avature. We speak with Raman Richards about Avature’s new AI-driven chatbot – but it’s no normal chatbot believe us… it’s intuitive, helps candidates make real decisions about open opportunities and minimises the mundane, as well as automatically scheduling interviews, onboarding new employees and eliminating bias. It's a...

This week on The Scoop, the team from Tapod brings you all the TA & Recruitment News including wage growth in Australia, SHRM makes a BIG call, what’s happening with The Great Resignation? Candidate discrimination and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your continued support in presenting this important news service.

This week on TaPod we are joined by our great friend Jo Ioannidis, Industry Expert & Head of P&C at Total Synergy to pull apart the latest McKinsey Global Report - Focussing on the challenge of tight labour markets in advanced economies. It’s a really detailed report that demonstrates that we are sitting in the middle of the toughest candidate market in decades, at the same time as challen...

This week on the Scoop the team from Tapod take on all the big issues in the world of TA & Recruitment including Man United redundancies… Greece doing Greece things… all the latest Job Data… Job Scams and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your continued support in bringing you the news. 

This week on TaPod we are joined by the brilliant Rachel Hill, MD at Hill Consulting HRS and Founder at The Recruitment Skills Academy to discuss how you can harness the skills to become much better Recruiters. In an environment where the competition for talent has never been tighter, are you mastering the basics? Do you have your Hiring Managers on side? From LinkedIn to Glassdoor… EVP to Sourcin...

This week on the Scoop the team from Tapod take on all the big issues in the world of TA & Recruitment including GEN Z and their time issues… AI - jobs that will suffer and what HR is doing about it…  Inflation on the up again…  back pay at World Vision… update on the Finance Grad Market and Aged Care industry… Lauren puts her hand up as the next Governor General and much, much more. Thanks to...

This week on TaPod we catch up with one of the most brilliant minds in the TA Industry, Sue Howse – CEO & Founder of the Human Collaborative. With the ‘non-employee’ or ‘invisible workforce’ sector sitting at 24% and set to grow to 30-40% over the next few years, understanding the new ways of working and the contingent workforce is key for our Industry to add value. Are you in a position to ad...

This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod welcomes Lauren back from her trip to NZ. We talk personality hires… extra annual leave… gender pay equity at government level… skilled-based recruitment and much much more… Thanks to Indeed for your continued support.

This week on TaPod it’s time to check in with the ever-brilliant Pavi Iyer to discuss the transition from Talent to P&C. Is it easy? What are the transferrable skills? And are we too hard on our friends in P&C? Pav guides us through the challenges and opportunities and why they just aren’t that different from us ‘normal people’. But you make your own mind up… Thanks so much to SmartRecruit...

This week on the Scoop the team from TaPod turn it up a notch. We catch up with guest reporter Callam Pickering – Chief Economist from Indeed for an update on the economy… we talk gender pay gap… unique jobs in Tassie – wombat walker anyone? The happiest and most stressed jobs in Australia… where are job ads headed and much, much more! Thanks to our great friends at Indeed for your ongoing support...

This week on TaPod we catch up with the incomparable Jo Vohland from ATC and break down the findings of the 2024 State of Talent Acquisition Report. From Talent Advisory to Internal Mobility, cooperation to collaboration, candidate fraud to salary transparency and heaps more. This is the most extensive report in the market and the insights WILL help you develop your TA strategy. Thanks to SmartRec...

This week on the Scoop, the team from TaPod bring you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news. Craig has pulled himself out of his ‘man-flu’ inspired deathbed talk with Lauren about the latest AI updates… Heaps of jobs in the US & Queensland… What Candidates really want…Non-monetary benefits taking a front seat… Restraint Clauses and much, much more! Thanks to Indeed – our amazing Scoop partn...

Today on TaPod we catch up with the ever-brilliant Loren De Laine - Director TA (India Middle East Türkiye Africa and Asia Pacific) @Chep. Loren is passionate about the end-to-end recruitment cycle and we explore skills-based recruitment, internal mobility, talent pipelining and gender parity in male-dominated industries. It's a fascinating discussion and made possible by our podcast partner...

This week on TaPod we enlist the help of Indiana Jones to uncover the fabled ‘lost podcast’.  Adrift in the annals of time and hidden in the long history of storytelling there was a legend. A legend that of one of the greatest podcasts to grace our industry was recorded and never released. Well, today we can bring it to you. Join us as we speak with Kiria McNamara and Kate Reid from Swisse Wellnes...

This week on the Scoop, the team from TaPod bring you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news. What effect will the lifting of the minimum wage bring across business? Changes to defence recruitment. Data breaches in the HRTech world. What do you think about the future of work? Bias in AI. TA jobs on the increase and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your continued support.

This week on TaPod we catch up with one of our absolute favs – Jamie Holder – Head of TA at MUFG Retirement Solutions… So what do you do when you don’t have an EB Strategy and have no budget to support it? Well sit right back and Jamie will spell it out for you…  It all started when Jamie attended a Melbourne Talent Meet-Up event about a year ago with Quila Cervilli and Andrew Griffiths presenting...

This week on the Scoop, the team from TaPod brings you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news. From the top reasons candidates don’t apply, to unhappiness leave to gender pay gap for graduates, counting penguins for a living and much, much more! Thanks to Indeed for your support.

This week on Tapod we sit down with our favourite Dutchman, Podcaster, Industry Legend, International Speaker and 6 time Author Bas Van Der Hatred to discuss his most recent book Talent Acquisition Excellence - Co-authored with the great man ‘Big Kev’ Wheeler. We jump under the hood of this really interesting publication, one we highly recommend you get your hands on. Bas graciously gives all TaPo...

This week on the Scoop, the team from TaPod bring you all the weekly TA & Recruitment news. Craig focuses on Candidate Experience, and Lauren brings us updates on unemployment rates, recruiting difficulties on the up, pay rise for NSW public servants and much, much more. Thanks to Indeed for your support.

This week on Tapod we catch up with James Ellis.. and WOW! If you don’t think you need to know what Employer Brand is all about you are wrong. It’s all about finding something to make you different from others in your space – and that’s something we all need – especially when trying to cut through the noise to candidates. We discuss James’ latest book – The Laws of Employer Branding and it is equa...

On this episode of Tapod we catch up with Belinda Cawthorne – Global Director Enablement with our monthly partner Pageup. We chat to Bel about all things Automation, AI & Efficiency in this crazy new world. We tackle challenges, the future and what to do to get started. Research shows that by 2030, 30% of hours currently worked can be automated… are you ready?  It’s a fascinating discussion, a...