Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. Recruiting Future helps Talent Acquisition teams drive measurable impact by developing their strategic capability in Foresight, Influence, Talent, and Technology. I’m deviating from the standard Newsletter format this week to do a deeper dive into AI. TA's Moment Of Truth In 1999, my mere 11 months of experience working with a brand new...
12 days ago • 2 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. Recruiting Future helps Talent Acquisition teams drive measurable impact by developing their strategic capability in Foresight, Influence, Talent, and Technology. Are You Fitt For The Future? I've been absolutely delighted by the response to the launch of my FITT Assessment for TA Leaders. So far, over 100 people have taken it, and the...
20 days ago • 2 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. Recruiting Future helps Talent Acquisition teams drive measurable impact by developing their strategic capability in Foresight, Influence, Talent, and Technology. Literally The Hottest Event In TA Click the play button to watch my one minute RecFest review So RecFest UK was absolutely epic last week! It was great to see the Talent...
27 days ago • 3 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. After a hiatus and a false start, Recruiting Future Feast is now returning to you as a weekly newsletter. In response to the fast-moving times we are currently living through, I've made some changes... Are You FITT For The Future? I seem to start almost every episode of the podcast with a reference to unprecedented disruption. I've been...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. Nearly There! Regular readers will have noticed that this newsletter hasn't been coming out as regularly as usual. There is a good reason. I've been head down working on something special to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, its 700th episode and 3 million downloads. I'm nearly ready to launch and everything will be live by...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. A Moment Of Reflection This is the first newsletter I've sent this year, which is a surprising approach to take to a weekly newsletter. So what's been going on? 2025 is a special year for Recruiting Future, and a triple whammy of landmarks is coming up. The podcast celebrates its 10th birthday in March, will shortly hit 700 episodes, and...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. Faster Changing Times Well, the one word I can think of to sum up 2024 was relentless. However, it is just the precursor to the disruption and acceleration of change we will see in 2025. Predicting the future can seem impossible, but if you adopt the right mindset, predictions can be surprisingly accurate. One hundred years ago, in 1925,...
7 months ago • 4 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. Nobody Cares About AI I got the link to Fiverr’s amusing short musical about AI from Tom Goodwin’s excellent newsletter. It sums up where we are in Talent Acquisition at the moment. Nobody cares about AI, but we care very much about what it makes possible now and in the future. I think it’s time to change the narrative around a bit and...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Recruiting Future Feast Greetings from Edinburgh Welcome to the weekly edition of Recruiting Future Feast, the newsletter from The Recruiting Future Podcast. The Unintended Consequences of AI Hype I recently had an interesting conversation with the General Counsel of a mid-sized company with offices in the US and Europe. Their HR team had just invested in a new ATS, but shortly after signing, the vendor began touting the system’s “powerful AI.” This wasn’t mentioned in the original due...
9 months ago • 2 min read