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Join hosts - Lauren Sharp & Craig Watson as we explore the wonderful and wacky world of Talent Acquisition & Recruitment. We speak with TA Legends, Thought Leaders & Industry suppliers. We explore challenges, changes & confusion in a world that is crying out for a voice. We aim to be informative... a little controversial... with a side of fun. Join us... won't you?
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It’s your weekly episode of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… AI reshaping Banking Recruitment, Truck driver sacked for distributing porn, Unilever pauses hiring due to the Middle East conflict, Start-Up Founder delivers a patience-building lesson, worker sacked for chasing down an Easter Egg thief, EY comes up with a great AI agentic partnership, a bar just for those looking to quit their job, and...
This week on Tapod, we catch up with Tosh Onishi – People & Talent Executive, HR Leader, AI Expert & Global Keynote Speaker. Tosh has recently returned to Sydney after a stint as Head of TA for Okta in Singapore and prior to that over 10 years at Visa in Japan & Singapore. We met Tosh at the Avature Upfront event where he spoke about AI and how current recruitment processes can be exploited using AI. Tosh gives us his views on this, as well as the recent 60 Minutes segment coverin...
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including snail mail, the ‘new’ weapon for candidates, another recruitment tech cyber attack, the latest on layoffs, overqualified candidates, the UK to mandate new pay gap reporting, start-ups paying obscene salaries and much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
This week on Tapod, we catch up with Reegan Kerkin – People & Culture Manager at OceanaGold Corporation and ITA's 2025 Corporate Talent Leader of the Year! Reegan has an amazing story which has recently culminated in being promoted to Global P&C Manager and moving halfway across the world to Charlotte in the USA. An inspirational story and an aspirational journey Thanks to PeopleOrbitAI for partnering with us this month.
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… Strikes, strikes and more strikes, the nightmarish state of the job market, Callam from Indeed stops by, 1 in 3 plan to quit, and much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
This week on Tapod, we catch up with Matthew Lant – Head of Recruitment and Employer Brand at AFCA. Now every year at the ITAs there is a team that cleans up. Last year AFCA won Excellence in Employer Brand, Excellence in Candidate Experience and Corporate Talent Professional of the Year. Want to hear how they did it? Thanks to Taly for partnering with us this month.
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… Gen Z grads being fired en masse, teachers striking, F2F interviews vs online interviews, working from home challenges, candidate bias, unemployment date – good news or bad? Recruiting AI Agents – WTF? and much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
This week on Tapod, we catch up with Samantha Devlin (Sam to her friends), co-founder and CEO of The Careers Department. With the world agog with the AI revolution… Graduate unemployment at record highs and students questioning traditional pathways, we thought it was time to get to the bottom of it all, and who better to speak to than Sam? The Careers Department has a ton of student-led data, including intention shifts on post-school pathways in school-leavers. It’s a fascinating dataset and ...
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… the dawn of the Concierge Recruiter, job cuts at Meta & Atlassian (AI or AI washing?), WhatsApp used to terminate employees, Jack and Jill hacked and much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
This week on Tapod we catch up with the ever-brilliant and ever-busy Edan Haddock – Head of Talent and People Experience at Movember, Podcast Host and Community Builder. There is a helluva lot going on at Movember, from a new Global Institute of Men’s Health to ‘Joel’ the AI agent and a global recruitment responsibility – it’s busy, busy, busy! Throw on top of that the Total Talent Podcast; he’s barely got time to scratch himself. Hands up if you have an AI Agent reporting directly to you as ...
Buckle in for a special episode of Tapod, where we sit down with Peter Treloar – Founder at Taly. Believe us, this is NOT a normal personality profiling solution. From an AI-enabled on-demand org psych to delivering results in video or even podcast form and NO boring reports. It gets the data into your hands when and where you need it. And if you need any further proof, listen to the end, and you will hear an AI-driven podcast unpacking Lauren and Craig’s personalities and how they will work ...
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… AI washing, Kyle & Jackie O, women shut out of leadership, a 4-day work week in Victoria, unions pushing for more holidays, it’s amazing what you see through Meta glasses, Anthropic’s take on jobs exposed to AI, Lauren may just apply for MAFS, and much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
This week on Tapod we catch up with the amazing Natalie Flynn, Founder of Equidi, to discuss the latest WGEA gender pay gap and all things International Women’s Day. We are making baby steps into our pay gap, but it’s not enough and we’re not sure we’re even measuring the right data… What we can be sure of is that in many industries, there are still more opportunities at the ‘top end’ of businesses for males, from management to the ‘C-suite'. We touch on AI and its impact on the gender labour...
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… Lauren Anderson from Indeed joins us to talk Health Sector, Tinder the new LinkedIn, most non-competes to be banned, the latest WGEA numbers, Gen Z playing up again, and Square acting like… well… squares. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
This week on Tapod we catch up with Kimberley Lawrie, world-famous Talent Leader from brands such as Telstra, Holden, Jetstar, Myer, Aesop, Mars and Cotton On. But right now… Kimbo is in between roles, and we explore the world of the unemployed Talent Acquisition professional. From Candidate Experience to AI in the Recruitment Process to the state of the TA, and even authoring a children’s book, we unpack what we all fear – searching for a job... It’s compelling and frustrating, but we do it ...
Get strapped in for a special episode of Tapod, where we sit down with James Ellis—Global Talent Strategy Expert, best-selling author, and one of the nicest people you will ever meet. EB has evolved into Talent Strategy, and here is your chance to come along for the ride. There are a million different gold nuggets of inspiration here… from helping recruiters escape from the cost-centre box... killer candidates over a full funnel… every company has a point of difference and a heap more. ...
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… AI FOMO drives risk, Greenhouse talks 'AI Doom Loop', Public wage growth on the up, job ads rise at a rate not seen since 2022, discrimination against the LGBTIQ+ workers on the job increases in Australia, gender pay gap update, Gen Z proven to be a generation of laziness, the heavens open mid-record and much more… Thanks to Indeed f...
This week on Tapod we catch up with Andy Steeds—Head of Talent Acquisition at Capgemini Australia & NZ. It’s a great opportunity to revisit Capgemini’s fantastic win in the category of Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the 2025 ITAs. From managing pay gap to working within an environment of the global 'anti-movement', Capgemini navigates DE&I in a modest, understated but passionate fashion, ensuring it is at the forefront of strategy and purpose. Thanks to Phenom for pa...
Buckle in for a special episode of Tapod, where we sit down with Cliff Jurkiewicz, VP Global Strategy & Futurist at Phenom. I have to say this was one of the most interesting conversations I have ever had. From early life as a touring rock star to piloting his own plane and dealing with family tragedy, Cliff has had quite the life. And it doesn’t stop there… The insights into ‘the death of industrial-age recruitment,' the divorce between HR & Talent and a perfect storm of technologica...
It’s your weekly dose of the Scoop from Tapod with all of your TA & Recruitment news from here and abroad. We cover all sorts of headlines, including… Breaking News in the breakup of 2 HR Tech juggernauts, AI jobs that are 'safe,' rethinking entry-level pathways, IBM tripling their hiring, work is a situationship, ANZ charging $10 for a sausage sizzle. And much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us on The Scoop.
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I really wanted to listen to this but the voice from the interview is sadly incomprehensible :(