Since the COVID pandemic accelerated reliance on unsupervised ‘take-home exams’, the education system has found itself with a fundamental problem –– one which has only been exacerbated by the recent rise in easily-accessible AI tools like ChatGPT. And new research shows just how great the scale and impact of the problem is for the education system and Early Careers teams alike.  Dr Peter Scarfe, Associate Professor, and Dr Etienne Roesch, Professor of Applied Statistics & Cognitive...

There’s been a lot of debate recently about whether AI changes what we need to select for, to predict candidate success. But the reality is that most companies have needed to reframe how they select for quite some time.  At the end of 2022, Arctic Shores’ Senior Psychometrician Luke Montouri and Senior Applied Psychologist Sanchia Dennis set out to review a huge data set with one key objective –– to understand which skills, competencies, and behaviours would be most predictive of candidate...

Talent transformation and the shift to becoming a skills-first organisation has been a hot topic for years. And now AI is turning the pressure gauge up to boiling point, even the biggest industry players are feeling the impact.  Enter Harriet Newlyn –– a Partner in PwC UK’s HR Transformation and Technology practice who spent the last decade leading large-scale HR transformation programmes for major multinationals. And she has some robust thoughts on what this next era of radical change has in...

What happens when you bring together two veterans of the psychometric assessment industry?  The headlines: some very strongly aligned views and some opposing ones.  This week, Robert is speaking to Ben Williams –– a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with almost two and a half decades of experience in the assessment industry, and the Founder and Managing Director of Sten10 ––a specialist assessment consultancy working with the likes of The...

You’re interested in scrapping the CV, hiring for potential, and rolling out a skills-based hiring approach beyond early careers. But you’re TERRIFIED about how to actually do it.  Maybe you’ve done pretty much everything you can think of to improve the diversity of your talent pool and you’re moving the needle, but it’s not happening FAST enough. Or maybe you’re just curious about how one of the most pioneering TA leaders our industry has to offer has managed to achieve a 75% female...

Have you been considering making the switch to skills-based hiring but feel terrified about trying to persuade your hiring managers to let go of experience-based hiring and stop using the CV as a comfort blanket?  Can you see roles where you’re facing a skills shortage or where candidates seem like a good fit on paper but are missing critical qualities in the interview stage?  Do you know that your candidate experience should be better, but need a hand convincing your stakeholders that...

James Uffindell is the CEO and founder of Bright Network. And he’s on a mission to build the workforce of tomorrow, using technology and data to connect the world's most forward-thinking organisations with the UK's brightest students and graduates –– improving the diversity and social mobility of our talent pools in the process.  As if that’s not enough, James also supports young entrepreneurs by offering advice and networking opportunities that would have otherwise been inaccessible.  What...

In a change from our usual programming, we’re shaking things up this week on the TA Disruptors podcast.  Later this week we’ll be publishing “The pragmatist’s playbook for skills-based hiring” –– featuring contributions from many members of the TA Disruptors community. In the playbook –– among many things –– we unpack the critical role of the Task-based Assessment in helping TA teams evaluate a candidate’s potential to adapt, learn, and continuously acquire new skills.   So today, we’re...

Andrea Marston is a trailblazer. As a Global Talent Acquisition leader who has spearheaded TA teams at the likes of Workday, Finastra, AOL, Huddle, Oracle, and most recently at VMware (now part of Broadcom), Andrea’s advice on overcoming TA’s biggest challenges is not to be missed.   And having played a pivotal role in scaling several multi-billion-dollar enterprises in hyper-competitive landscapes, all while championing inclusive and equitable practices on a global scale, there aren’t many...

If you’ve been in TA for a while, then you’ve probably come across Dominic Joyce on LinkedIn. As a LinkedIn Top Voice with more than 50,000 followers, an experienced CV-coach, and a decade of experience in TA leading teams at the likes of HSBC, Reed, Klarna and mostly recently as Head of Talent Acquisition at Travelex, Dom is a leader whose opinion you’ll want to hear.  Having reviewed over 100,000 CVs and helped more than 600 candidates cut through the noise, Dom offers a candidate-centric...

Rebecca George CBE is one of the UK’s leading experts on skills, serving as the Skills Advisor at the Department for Education and a Non-Executive Director at the Metropolitan Police. With twenty years at IBM and nearly fifteen years at Deloitte under her belt, Rebecca is a staunch supporter of skills reform –– her insights into the skills shortage, inter-employer partnerships, and the necessity of innovation to address talent scarcity in our pipelines are crucial messages for all talent...

Somehow we’ve reached the end of season one of the TA Disruptors podcast… and what a ride it’s been. If you want to remind yourself of the biggest takeaways from this season all in one place, you’ll want to listen to this episode. Join Robert as he shares the best bits from season one and reflects on what we’ve learned throughout our first season of the TA Disruptors podcast, as well as sharing his thoughts on where Talent Acquisition will go next. As an increasing number of candidates...

Claudia Nuttgens is a TA powerhouse. As a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Executive Coach with over 20 years of experience –– and as the leader of the highly-regarded Assessment Advisory team at AMS –– Claudia’s perspectives on where we must innovate across our assessment and selection strategies this year are ones that every TA team needs to hear.  Whether you’re looking for advice on how to redesign your selection process in light of candidate adoption of GenAI or whether you’re...

We’re starting 2024 with a bang, as we dive head-on into some of the most controversial questions TA teams must find an answer to this year with Recruiting Brainfood’s Hung Lee.  Before you switch off, this is not another 2024 trends report. Instead, it’s a thoughtful, deeply considered, scarily accurate deep dive into the reality facing TA teams this January… with some uncomfortable truths that the less disruptive among us might not want to hear.  With a community of more than 60,000...

Amanda Pleasant is JLL’s Global Talent Sourcing Director. She's responsible for a global team of Sourcers across 80 countries, filling around 30,000 roles a year. And she’s taking every single one of them on a journey to embrace GenAI.  If you’re wondering how to drive internal transformation, embed a culture of experimentation, and drive the adoption of new tech across a global team, you’ll want to hear what Amanda has to say.   From inspiring change to getting her team to think more like...

Siadhal Magos founded Metaview after going through an intense period of scaling at Uber. The business went from 7,000 to 15,000 people in just 24 months. And while he was highly tech-enabled in other areas of his work, hiring felt like it was lagging behind.  Even as a hiring manager he felt the pain, inefficiency, and toil of the hiring process, and realised that TA teams must have been feeling this ten-fold.  That’s where Metaview was born. And four years later, Generative AI exploded into...

The Director of Government Skills at the Cabinet Office, Sonia Pawson IS currently spearheading a team of 250 talent professionals responsible for delivering some of the most highly regarded graduate programmes in the UK, including the Civil Service Fast Stream.    As a chartered occupational psychologist, Sonia is one of a rare breed able to balance being an academic and a practitioner to deliver outstanding results. In fact, Sonia and her team are already approaching AI with cautious...

Yasar Ahmad is the Global Vice President of Talent, Mobility and Rewards at HelloFresh. And he WANTS candidates to apply for roles at HelloFresh using GenAI. Join our TA Disruptors podcast host, Robert Newry, as he and Yasar unpack: How HelloFresh are approaching Talent 6.0 Why candidates applying for 100s of roles with just one click is a GOOD thing for TA teams… And why we need to act now to adapt the selection process so we’re climbing a hill, not a mountain. Why getting candidates to...

Why are some Talent Acquisition leaders having to resift, scrap text-based applications altogether, or go back to manually screening every candidate?  What does the education sector’s approach to Generative AI tell us about the tidal wave of change that is about to make itself known in assessment and selection? When people talk about the ethical conundrum that tools like ChatGPT put recruiters in, what do they actually mean?  Arctic Shores CEO and co-founder, Robert Newry, is joined by Senior...