Today on The Alder Hour, Matt and Rhona wind down your workday with a spirited mix of headlines, humor, and sharp takes on what’s shaping talent acquisition right now. In Points & Pints, they dig into two big stories redefining how organizations think about their TA tech stack — including why more than half of companies still rate their tools as only “average” and how ghost job listings continue to muddy the waters for both recruiters and candidates.

Then Matt sits down with Hari Challapalli, the product leader behind the brand-new Recruit by HireRoad platform launching in the UK. Hari brings over two decades of cross-industry experience building intuitive, customer-centric SaaS products, and he shares how that background shaped a simplified, modern approach to talent acquisition. From aligning engineering and design to delivering real value for hiring teams, he breaks down what it takes to reimagine an ATS from the ground up.

The episode wraps with a full round of Trending or Ending?, where Matt and Rhona debate which workplace trends have real staying power and which ones deserve to fade out.

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