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What happened to the simple act of putting yourself out there and asking for a job? In Episode 7 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan looks back at the way many of us found our first jobs: a pile of photocopied CVs, walking from business to business, asking for the manager and hoping someone would give us a chance. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Nick Markessinis from...

What if your employer brand isn't what you say on your careers page, but what candidates actually experience after they click Apply ? In Episode 6 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan challenges the idea that employer brand is primarily about EVP statements, careers sites, videos and clever marketing. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Conor Ryan from TeamTailor , ex...

What does trust mean in recruitment when information is increasingly easy to manufacture? In Episode 5 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan explores how AI, candidate fraud and increasingly sophisticated digital tools are changing one of the fundamental assumptions behind recruitment: that the information a candidate gives us is true. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Si...

What happens when AI makes every candidate look like the perfect candidate? In Episode 4 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan explores an uncomfortable possibility: AI was supposed to make recruitment more productive, but in some parts of the hiring process, it may actually be creating more work. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Glen Perry from Recruit Wizard , explorin...

How many people actually work for your organisation? Not your permanent headcount. Your entire workforce . In Episode 3 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan explores one of the biggest blind spots in workforce strategy: organisations trying to plan for the workforce of the future without necessarily having complete visibility of the workforce they have today. As part of his Movember series...

What if reference checking isn’t broken… but the way we’ve automated it is? In Episode 2 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan takes a fresh look at one of the oldest parts of the recruitment process: the humble reference check. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Will McPhee getting under the bonnet of Referenced , a platform built around a surprisingly simple idea: use te...

What happens when AI gets better at doing the work, but humans still need to get better at working with each other? In the first episode of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. , Edan explores why the rise of AI could actually make human understanding, personality and connection more important than ever. As part of his Movember series, Edan spent time with Peter Treloar, founder of Taly, getting und...

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 differe...

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 an...

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 Str...

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.” Wit...

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...

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 candidat...

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...

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...

Where does your professional brand end and your personal brand begin? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores how those lines are rapidly disappearing. Our opinions, expertise, personality, employers, online presence and professional reputation increasingly exist in the same place. But as personal branding becomes an industry of its own, have we started confusing visibility with credibility ? Edan...

In this episode Edan explores why access to information is no longer the competitive advantage it once was. In a world where AI can generate frameworks, answer questions and build strategies in seconds, the real value now lies in human experience, shared learning and professional community. Using the upcoming Startup People Summit as a real-world example, Edan reflects on the growing importance of...

For decades, organisations have been built around job descriptions, career pathways, salary bands and job architecture. But what happens when work evolves faster than we can redesign the roles themselves? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores a provocative question for the Workplace 5.0 era. What if the future isn't about hiring into predefined roles at all? As AI becomes part of our teams a...

In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent , Edan introduces the concept of the Workforce Lab -  a new way of thinking about how organisations prepare for the future of work. As technology, AI and workforce expectations evolve at an unprecedented pace, Edan explores why traditional governance and annual workforce planning are no longer enough. Instead, he makes the case for creating dedicated...

Every Talent team has dashboards. Every Talent leader reports metrics. But are we measuring what really matters? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the difference between operational recruitment metrics and true business intelligence. From Time to Hire and Cost per Hire through to succession risk, role criticality, performance, potential and workforce resilience, this episode challenges the wa...

Behavioural interviews, competency frameworks and reference checks are designed to uncover the truth. But what happens when the story itself is fiction? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores one of recruitment's most uncomfortable questions. Can candidates bluff their way through modern hiring processes? Where is the line between selling yourself and inventing achievements? And if references...

Pay transparency is one of the hottest topics in Talent today, but is listing a salary on every job ad really as simple as many people make it sound? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the reality behind pay transparency, responding to the growing narrative that organisations not advertising remuneration are simply getting it wrong. Drawing on Movember's own journey to full pay transparen...

Talent Boards have become a familiar part of the HR and Talent landscape. But have we started mistaking governance for Talent Management itself? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent , Edan challenges one of the profession's accepted norms. He explores whether Talent Boards are simply a modern governance mechanism built on long-established Talent Management practices such as successi...

Talent Acquisition once operated under a simple assumption: pay people more and they'll join, stay and perform. But what happens when salary stops being a deciding factor? In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent , Edan explores one of the biggest shifts happening in the world of work. Drawing on research, personal experience and observations from years spent in Talent Acquisition, he e...

In a world where everyone has a platform, an audience and now AI at their fingertips, has expertise become harder to recognise? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the growing gap between visibility and credibility. Why are we increasingly mistaking confidence for competence, reach for expertise and content for capability? Has social media changed how we define experts? And what happens when op...