Global Talent Podcast

This is a discussion between Bas van de Haterd and Dr. Charles Handler on the global perspective on talent. The two discuss recent developments in the talent acquisition industry, particularly focusing on Workday's acquisitions, the rise of AI agents, and Open AI's plans to enter the job market.The three topics we discuss:Workday Acquisitions and AI Agents and how this will impact Workday as a company, but also the implications of TA Technology in general. http://bit.ly/4pV7xQyhttps://bit.ly/491KoWJhttps://bit.ly/3MT8Vo4Open AI Entering the Job Market in combination with Emploi's Recruiter Nation Research that states lots of TA leaders are thinking about the TA tech stack. https://bit.ly/4psYO7fhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/openai-announces-ai-powered-hiring-platform-to-take-on-linkedin/And thirdly a Dutch Labor Law Case Study, where a woman worked three full time jobs and called in sick on one of them, still collection pay. https://bit.ly/4qnP8LQ

In this episode Bas, Matthias and Oana discuss the month of August in the European TA landscape. We start talking about the weather and how that is changing the preferred location to work. The European North has discovered... heath... And we talk about adapting to a warmer world based on this article: https://laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/what-future-of-work-in-a-warmer-world We talk about leadership and growing to leadership positions in Talent Acquisition based on Linkedin data: https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/learning-and-development/want-to-be-a-talent-leader-heres-how-600000-others-got-there We talk about the European Start up scene based on research by Marq: https://pubsecure.marq.com/adc1b9f6-c29c-4ab4-aed2-a3c8f11bd10b/document.pdf We talk about Skills hiring, TikTok's investment in this, Coors Miller's sort of move to this https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0809/1398756-tiktok-sets-up-digital-upskilling-fund-for-young-people/ https://www.ere.net/articles/parent-company-of-coors-and-miller-abolishes-the-cv-sort-of And we talk about an exit for an assessment company that was expected and unexpected and why that was the case. https://www.recruitmenttech.nl/2023/08/24/main-capital-verkoopt-meerderheidsbelang-assessio-aan-britse-investeringsgroep/

In this case study narrator Bas van de Haterd tells you the case of hiring air traffic controllers and how they got to 160% increase in quality of hire, while lowering their requirements on education. By using technology to test all applicants they were able to better select candidates and they learned that educational success had very limited correlation with the qualities you needed to have to become a great air traffic controller.

In this case study Bas van de Haterd tells you about an old award winning case from the Airport of Schiphol. It's about a recruitment marketing campaign actually from some years ago, but that still holds it's place. The excellence of this campaign was that is started with persona's, and really did what you are supposed to do with persona's, personalise the campaign based on them. So different ads, with different photo's, different motivators to want the job and different landing pages that corresponded with the ads.

Talent Savvy presents case studies, short description of cases that we think are too good not to share. In this case study one where narrator Bas van de Haterd was personally involved, hiring in (very) niche communities. How do you know about them? (Spoiler: the people doing the job) How do you get involved with them? (Spoiler: you don't, others do) And how do you get your non recruitment staff to help you identify them?