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Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

by Matt Alder · English

Talent acquisition is undergoing unprecedented disruption as AI, economic uncertainty, and the ever-shortening lifespan of skills radically reshape recruiting. On Recruiting Future, Matt Alder explores this evolving landscape, using insightful interviews with transformational TA practitioners and forward-thinking experts to spark your imagination and provide the insights you need to shape the future of talent acquisition in your organization. Each episode explores topics such as AI, recruiting automation, recruitment marketing, employer branding, skills-based hiring, assessment, candidate experience, DEI, internal mobility, and the transformation of TA teams. Recruiting Future is an essential resource for everyone involved in hiring. Matt Alder is a globally respected talent acquisition futurist, author, and speaker with over 25 years of experience exploring what’s next in recruiting. Renowned for his expertise in strategic foresight and technology trends, Matt provides a unique perspective that empowers leaders to navigate disruption. His deep industry knowledge and ability to spark meaningful conversations make Recruiting Future a must-listen for talent acquisition and HR professionals everywhere.

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Ep 837: What Has Changed In Executive Hiring?

How executive hiring (corporate executive recruiting) has changed in the last few years—what stayed “white glove” and relationship-driven, and what evolved due to AI, market shifts, internal…

13 Nov 2026 · 22m · 8 chapters

Ep 836: Continuous Improvement In TA

Continuous improvement in talent acquisition (TA), using global benchmarking to decide what to fix first, and how to evaluate AI tools amid a confusing vendor landscape.

8 Nov 2026 · 30m · 14 chapters

Ep 835: How AI Is Reshaping Work And Hiring

AI and AI agents are reshaping work and hiring, changing how organizations define roles, structure talent acquisition, and assess candidates.

3 Nov 2026 · 35m · 10 chapters

Ep 834: Six Predictions For AI In HR

Predictions for AI in HR/hiring in 2027, framed from an “inside the transformation” perspective at Cloudflare.

30 Oct 2026 · 32m · 13 chapters

Ep 833: Deciding What Not To Automate In Hiring

How to decide what NOT to automate in hiring when using AI—emphasizing “human agency” (recruiters making judgment calls) rather than “human in the loop” (humans merely approving AI outputs).

26 Oct 2026 · 27m · 9 chapters

Round Up September 2026

Recruiting Future Roundup September 2026 summarizes four recent episodes about AI’s impact on entry-level hiring, “talent debt” from layoffs, candidate fraud, and agent-to-agent recruiting.

22 Oct 2026 · 38m · 19 chapters

Ep 832: The Human Side Of AI Readiness

AI readiness in organizations—why success depends more on human mindset, culture, and skills than on having an AI strategy deck; HR/talent leaders’ role in execution, reskilling, and…

15 Oct 2026 · 25m · 10 chapters

Ep 831: The Talent Employers Are Throwing Away

The episode argues that today’s redundancies aren’t just caused by AI.

14 Oct 2026 · 19m · 6 chapters

Ep 830: Is AI Anxiety Holding TA Teams Back?

AI anxiety in recruiting/TA teams—how leaders can move from fear to confident experimentation while AI tools and roles keep changing.

9 Oct 2026 · 26m · 9 chapters

Ep 829: What TA Leaders Are Talking About Now

Episode 829 (“What TA Leaders Are Talking About Now”) is a set of seven short interviews recorded at Wreckfest USA in Nashville.

8 Oct 2026 · 23m · 12 chapters

Ep 828: Managing Career Transitions

Managing senior career transitions amid tougher executive hiring, more diligence, and AI-influenced assessment; common leader mistakes and how executive search firms actually work.

29 Sep 2026 · 25m · 11 chapters

Ep 827: Agent To Agent Recruiting

Recruiting Future episode 827 argues that AI is increasing “noise” and eroding trust because both candidates and employers are scaling the same processes (mass applications, AI screening/outreach).

23 Sep 2026 · 34m · 17 chapters

Ep 826: Do AI Interviews Work?

Whether AI can successfully conduct the first candidate interview (“AI interviews”) and what enterprises report after deploying it at scale, including effects on candidate experience, speed, hiring…

23 Sep 2026 · 25m · 11 chapters

Ep 825: The Real Risks Of Candidate Fraud

Candidate fraud in remote hiring—beyond AI interview cheating—includes organized criminal operations using stolen identities, deepfakes, and proxy interviewers to infiltrate companies and steal data,…

18 Sep 2026 · 27m · 10 chapters

Round Up August 2026

Roundup August 2026 summarizes six Recruiting Future episodes (July–August) on AI in hiring, candidate trust, enterprise data readiness, and how humans build judgment in an AI era, plus employer…

17 Sep 2026 · 31m · 11 chapters

Ep 824: Is AI Creating Talent Debt?

How organizations should redesign work around AI (not just automate tasks or cut headcount), using a “five A’s” model (avoid, assist, augment, automate, autonomous) and focusing on the…

11 Sep 2026 · 27m · 11 chapters

Ep 823: How AI Is Disrupting Entry Level Jobs

How AI is disrupting entry-level jobs in tech by automating routine coding and raising the “bar” for what entry-level work requires; what education and employers should change in hiring and training.

9 Sep 2026 · 24m · 12 chapters

Ep 822: How To Win Investment For Employer Branding

How employer branding leaders can win budget and influence during hiring freezes and reduced headcount, by tightly linking programs to business objectives, proving impact with CFO-friendly metrics,…

2 Sep 2026 · 21m · 10 chapters

Ep 821: Why Every Employer Brand Sounds The Same

Employer branding has become “samey”: most companies repeat identical values/mission/innovation claims, so candidates can’t distinguish employers.

28 Aug 2026 · 37m · 11 chapters

Ep 820: What Strategic HR Really Means

Strategic HR in practice—why HR leaders often claim to be “strategic” but operate with a functional/process mindset, causing trust erosion and churn at the CHRO level; how AI makes work redesign and…

26 Aug 2026 · 19m · 5 chapters

Ep 819: Who Gets The Biggest Job In HR?

How CHRO/CPO hiring is changing, what boards now value, and how TA leaders can reposition for the “biggest job in HR” amid fewer appointments and more emphasis on potential.

21 Aug 2026 · 27m · 9 chapters

Ep 818: The New Hiring Decision

How AI agents change hiring decisions—moving from “which person to hire” to “which work needs a human vs an agent,” using skills as the decision basis.

20 Aug 2026 · 32m · 12 chapters

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 5 The Market

Episode 5 (“The Market”) of “Decoding the C-Suite” discusses how buyers should cut through AI marketing hype and focus on business priorities and measurable outcomes, not demos or features.

18 Aug 2026 · 27m · 14 chapters

Decoding the C-Suite: Part 4 - The Product

Episode 4 (“The Product”) of Recruiting Future’s “Decoding the C-Suite” mini-series on how leadership thinks about AI, focused on product design after Smart Recruiters’ acquisition by SAP (seven…

18 Aug 2026 · 25m · 9 chapters