Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Talent Acquisition is perhaps the most important but also complex part of business. In this podcast I explain the intricate details of this $750 billion market, which is now being transformed by AI.
As you’ll hear, recruitment is far more nuanced than you may think, so “experts” in HR can do some pretty amazing ... Read more»
Tristram Gray, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer at Kmart Group in Australia, explains how the retail giant is revolutionizing high-volume hiring with AI. Managing 55,000 employees across 450 stores, Kmart recruits 12,000 people annually while processing hundreds of thousands of applications.
Tristram shares how the company uses Sapia.ai to create a mobile-first, simulation-based ... Read more»
Preview of my big HR Tech keynote!
This week I give you in-depth perspectives on the massive AI tech bubble, the massive revolution in talent acquisition systems, and what to expect from M&A in the future.
We’re in a whole new world of HR Technology and vendors are scrambling to buy, build, or ... Read more»
Alfredo Thompson, Chief People Officer at Royal United Hospitals Bath, NHS Foundation Trust, talks with Kathi Enderes about how he is leading an end-to-end transformation of talent acquisition and onboarding for the Trust.
Built on principles of customer orientation and systemic HR®, the organization shifted recruitment from a compliance-oriented fulfillment center to a business ... Read more»
In this conversation I share insights from my recent trip to Europe, focusing on the Workday Rising event, the current state of talent acquisition, and the evolving role of CHROs in strategic workforce planning.
I discuss the importance of systemic talent acquisition, the emergence of “Precision Talent Acquisition” and the entire redefinition of this function. ... Read more»
With all the mixed messages in the latest election, one rings loudly for leaders: the US Government must become more efficient. US voters did not seem impressed with the billions spent on the Chips and Infrastructure acts: they want lower taxes and more accountable government.
As Elon Musk explains, reducing costs is an exercise ... Read more»
In this conversation, I discuss three main topics: the battle in the enterprise chatbot space, the transformation of talent acquisition, and the new “sticky” state of the job market.
How to make sense of enterprise AI Copilots? Workday and Salesforce team up, Apple Intelligence is coming, how do you make sense of it all?
In ... Read more»
This week we published a disappointing research study, Talent Acquisition at a Crossroads. The study, conducted in partnership with AMS, points out that talent acquisition leaders (this is a senior position) are largely left out of their company’s strategic planning process and many feel they operate as “order takers.”
In today’s world of ... Read more»
As companies shift heavily towards “skills-based hiring” to remove bias, we now see the unintended consequence. Half of all US college graduates are now “underemployed” and 52% of college grads never use the skills they studied in school.
This new study, which looks at 10-year job histories of college graduates in the US found that ... Read more»
In this podcast I discuss the urgent need to better automate, upskill, and integrate recruiting. CEOs believe recruiting is the third “most time-wasting” process in their companies (after emails and meetings), yet it’s more important than ever. This year companies need to really rethink and transform this function, and this podcast explains the issue. And ... Read more»
This week I’m podcasting from London and discuss my conversations with 50+ companies this week about talent acquisition and other important topics. We’re also two weeks into our summer sprint on AI and I share some of the stories we’re already hearing from HR professionals about how confusing this has become. But there’s a method ... Read more»
Two exciting AI announcements for HR today: SeekOut Assist and Eightfold Copilots for HR.
SeekOut Announcement: Giving Recruiters SuperPowers
SeekOut, a fast-growing recruiting and talent intelligence vendor, introduced one of the most exciting new applications of Generative AI today: Seekout Assist. This new product, which builds on the company’s powerful talent intelligence platform, ... Read more»
Over the last few months, the stock and bond markets have been devastated. After nearly twelve years of effectively zero interest rates, the US Fed is raising rates steadily. Why? The government has been flooding the market with cash for a decade and it’s time to clean things up.
While this is not going to ... Read more»
This week we launched our new global Talent Acquisition research (all about sourcing, recruiting, and attracting people) and the results are staggering. While nearly every company is trying to hire (the unemployment rate is below 3.6% and the economy is creating more than 400,000 new jobs each month), recruiting teams are not keeping up.... Read more»
This podcast details our brand new research on recruiting, and why 74% of companies underperform. I took some time to give you many of the details, including the labor market situation, why companies struggle to recruit, and the big secrets to recruiting with excellence.
For more information please look at our new research and ... Read more»
