TaPod - We Talk Talent Acquisition.
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?
Episodes
499 episodes
Episode 500! - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with the Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including… Starbucks layoffs, is Consulting dead? Latest ABS jobs data, what AI is really used for in the workplace, Gen Z scared of the word j*...
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Episode 500
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27:43
Episode 499 - 'Mind The Gap' - Recruitment Metro Trains Style - with Kyle MacLean
This week on Tapod we catch up with Kyle MacLean, Head of Talent at Metro Trains and today’s episode is all about the Choo choos! With over 1200 train drivers at Metro we explore all kinds of challenges including gender balance, new infrastruct...
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Season 7
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Episode 499
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34:52
Episode 498 - Navigating Career Change with Pam Stroud
On this special episode of Tapod, we catch up with Pam Stroud – Senior Talent Industry Legend, who has reassessed her career and ventured out on her own with ‘The Pivot Space’, supporting and navigating women in career transition. It may be men...
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Season 7
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Episode 498
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44:54
Episode 497 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop
Today on the Scoop Bonnie steps in for Craig whilst he is on a little sojourn and the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including… acquisitions on steroids, bikini tradie wants to go topless, office wo...
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Season 7
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Episode 497
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22:07
Episode 496 - We are not part of HR - we sit alongside it... with Jess Gibson-Jones
This week on Tapod we catch up with the legend Jessica Gibson-Jones winner of Enterprise Talent Leader of the Year at ITAs2025! We get a great understanding of the achievements Jess has implemented at Toll Group over the past 12 months includin...
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Season 7
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Episode 496
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42:32
Episode 495 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News, including…More news from the banking sector – good & bad, social media affecting hiring opportunities, and the PNG & Aussie Defence pact (and...
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Season 7
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Episode 495
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27:45
Episode 494 - The Warehouse Group - Your Enterprise Talent Team of the Year!
This week on Tapod we catch up with the winners of the Enterprise Talent Team of the Year at ITAs2025 – The Warehouse Group – represented by Kim Nicholas – GM – Talent Acquisition, HR Systems and Payroll, and Hayley Smith – Head of TA. We...
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Season 7
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Episode 494
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46:35
Episode 493 - SmartRecruiters & SAP - A Match Made in HR Heaven - with Rebecca Carr
EXCITING NEWS! It's official SmartRecruiters and SAP are GO!At
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Season 7
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Episode 493
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32:58
Episode 492 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with the Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News, including…A post-ITAs round-up, OpenAIjoins the hiring space, ANZ Bank in the poo again, some positive ads data, redundancy news, LinkedIn puts down ...
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Season 7
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Episode 492
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19:58
Episode 491 - Inclusivity Hiring - It's a Necessity, not a Luxury. With David Dunne.
This week on Tapod we sit down with David Dunne—Senior Manager, Workforce Services & Systems @Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect)—the largest national service provider for people on the autism spectrum, with over 1,500 employees across over ...
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Season 7
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Episode 491
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31:57
Episode 490 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News, including…ANZ stuff-up – Big Time, training is only part of the AI story, Nestle takes the choccies away, where will the jobs be in 2030? Well done t...
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Season 7
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Episode 490
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16:04
Episode 489 - Putting the Human in what we do... with Ben Whitfield
This week on Tapod we sit down with Ben Whitfield—Global Talent Acquisition Leader @Marsh McLennan - a global giant with over 95,000 employees. Ben has recently moved into the global role and is at the very pointy end of recruitment strategy, h...
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Season 7
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Episode 489
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30:09
Episode 488 - Unpacking The State of Volume Hiring Report
On this special episode of Tapod, we catch up with Dan Balout—Solutions Lead APAC at Paradox. Unpacking the State of Volume Hiring Report is the name of the game, and we get a great understanding of how the function is coping with ...
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Season 7
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Episode 488
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21:55
Episode 487 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News, including…Workday jumps on the acquisition merry-go-round, training company covertly records employees, expressing yourself Madonna style, CBA ...
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Season 7
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Episode 487
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22:50
Episode 486 - AI in Recruitment - Hype or Here to Stay? With Steve Ward
This week on Tapod we sit down with Steve Ward – Global Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing Expert and Head of Strategic Insights at Blackbridge Communications. Steve and Lauren had a conversation at Recfest UK about the future of AI in Re...
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Season 7
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Episode 486
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53:30
Episode 485 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News, including… Qantas rapped over the knuckles, AI training not keeping up with rollout, Callam Pickering joins us to discuss key financial data, strange...
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Season 7
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Episode 485
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29:05
Episode 484 - Doing More with Less - the NZ Recruitment Scene
This week on Tapod we sit down with Andy Talbutt, Event Director at Auckland Recruitment Meetup. We talk about the NZ market, how it’s tracking, the effect of AI, doing more with less, diversity recruitment, the local Recruitment Meetup scene, ...
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Season 7
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Episode 484
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36:21
Episode 483 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with the Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including… UK Recruiter smashes keyboard in anger… Why employees are leaving their jobs… Chatbots sabotaging female applicants… Gen Z being Gen Z. And...
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Season 7
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Episode 483
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21:56
Episode 482 - KFC Transforms their Talent Function with Angie Clarke
This week on Tapod we sit down with Angie Clarke—People Transformation & Experience Design Manager @KFC. Talent Function Transformation isn’t easy… Where do you start? What key metrics are you trying to improve? What’s the process & how...
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Season 7
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Episode 482
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33:16
Episode 481 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including… a massive acquisition in the HRTech space, working from home reserved for the elite… (except in Victoria), LinkedIn called out by industry,...
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Season 7
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Episode 481
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28:26
Episode 480 - Rumour vs Reality - The State of TA with Jo Vohland
This week on Tapod we sit down with the ultimate Swiss army knife of talent—Jo Vohland—to discuss exactly WTF is going on in the Talent Industry. Focusing on the ‘State of TA Report’ commissioned by ATC, we look at rumour vs reality. There is n...
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Season 7
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Episode 480
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40:09
Episode 479 - Unpacking Greenhouse with the CEO - Daniel Chait
On this special episode of Tapod we catch up with Daniel Chait—CEO at Greenhouse. We talk through the changes in the TA landscape since Greenhouse’s launch in 2012. From skills-based hiring to AI to the avalanche of technology available to team...
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Season 7
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Episode 479
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26:13
Episode 478 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with the Scoop
Today on the Scoop the team from Tapod brings you all of the weekly TA & Recruitment News including… Aussie workers are planning to quit, tech behemoth eats its own, U-turn in the AI recruitment space, bye-bye to the 4-day workweek, the Gen...
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Season 7
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Episode 478
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21:56
Episode 477 - TA Resilience in Times of Pressure & Crisis with Gary Park
This week on Tapod we sit down with the ever-brilliant Gary Park, a very good friend and TA Industry expert. We cover a myriad of topics, from AI to Skills-Based Hiring to the pressures TA Teams take on in the face of changing economic and poli...
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Season 7
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Episode 477
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35:13
Episode 476 - Live with Greenhouse @Recfest UK
On this special episode of Tapod we catch up with Carin Van Vuuren—CMO—and Robby Perdue—Senior Director of Product Management at Recfest UK. It was hot—both the weather and the topics we covered in this brief chat as we talk all things Greenhou...
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Season 7
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Episode 476
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