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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?
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Episodes

Episode 305 - Getting Under the Hood of Outhire - Why don't you join us?

We love talking with our partners and in this special episode of TaPod, we get right under the hood of Outhire the Recruitment Marketing ‘buddy’ for TA and P&C Teams. From quick and quality-driven marketing content, to integrations with over 30 ATS’s, Outhire will save you time and money. Get around it!

Feb 21, 202423 minSeason 6Ep. 305

Episode 304 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop

This week on The Scoop the team at Tapod tackle the really BIG issues in TA & Recruitment News. From good news in Tech recruitment… to bad news in a job interview… to meanies about workplace menopause and much, much more. Thanks to our fabbo friends at Indeed for your ongoing support.

Feb 20, 202419 minSeason 6Ep. 304

Episode 303 - Let's Talk Recruitment Tinder Dates and Personal Recessions with Mark Puncher

This week on Tapod we catch up with the ever-brilliant Mark Puncher the living legend of Recruitment Marketing. We cover all manner of things and we catch Lauren in a mood with Hiring Managers in her sights. In all honesty though, we discuss passive vs active candidates and is there really a difference? Recruitment Tinder Dates and Personal Recessions. It’s a great chat and we invite you to be part of it. Let’s go Tiger! Thanks to this month’s partner Outhire for all of your support....

Feb 18, 202441 minSeason 6Ep. 303

Episode 302 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop

This week on The Scoop – the Tapod team don’t miss the hot news topics – and you shouldn’t either. We talk Gender Pay Gap (it’s less than 2 weeks until game time)… Deepfake and how it affects recruitment… Employees in Australia will have the ‘right to disconnect’ and much, much more. Thanks to our partner Indeed, for bringing the news to you.

Feb 13, 202421 minSeason 6Ep. 302

Episode 301 - The Scoop & Indeed Futureworks - Special Episode

Welcome to a special episode of the Scoop with Rachael Townsley – Marketing Director at Indeed to discuss the upcoming Futureworks Event in Melbourne on 22 February! Futureworks is going to be massive and will cover Technology, Well Being, Innovation, DE&I, and all things covering how we work now, and into the future. If you love smart speakers and industry stats this is purpose-built for you! Futureworks has been built for Indeed Clients, but we are stoked to announce a special free giveawa...

Feb 12, 202412 minSeason 6Ep. 301

Episode 300 - Canva to the rescue with new tools for recruiters & job seekers!

This week on TaPod we celebrate our 300th Episode with the ever-brilliant Amy Schultz, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Canva. We really wanted to POP on our 300th and what better way to do that than deep dive into Canva on how they are supporting job seekers and recruiters with their ‘New Year New Job’ initiative. Let’s face it – the world is going more and more visual and standing out from the crowd is becoming more difficult. Amy shows us how Canva has created an awesome set of resources ...

Feb 11, 202438 minSeason 6Ep. 300

Episode 299 - Your Weekly TA & recruitment News with The Scoop

This week on the Scoop – your weekly dose of TA & Recruitment News we go Global! Is being forced back to the office working? What about choosing your own public holidays? 70% of people are proud of their employer… really? WHO is rumoured to be representing our industry in the next series of MAFS? And much, much more… Thanks so much to our wonderful partner Indeed for enabling us to bring you the REAL news weekly.

Feb 06, 202417 minSeason 6Ep. 299

Episode 298 - ATC Innovation Lab Winner on the Future of Personality Data

This week on TaPod we catch up with Peter Treloar, Founder & CEO at Taly and Richard Barnett MSP Director at Hays. In an environment where data is king we discuss how personality profiling can provide real insights into future and existing employees. We also deep dive into Lauren’s profile and believe me… you don’t want to miss that! Thanks to Outhire for your support this month.

Feb 04, 202441 minSeason 6Ep. 298

Episode 297 - Your Weekly News with The Scoop

This week on the Scoop, where the TaPod crew delivers all the best TA & Recruitment News directly to you, we talk Celebrity Big Brother… Positive news on the jobs market… The world’s biggest WFH Fail… and much, much more. Thanks to our friends from Indeed for your continued support.

Jan 30, 202415 minSeason 6Ep. 297

Episode 296 - We're Back! With Industry Legend Predictions for 2024!

We’re Back! Tapod 2024 launches with a BIGGIE! We are joined by industry heavy weights Dart Lindsley from Google… Gareth Flynn from TQ Solutions and Kevin Wheeler from the The Future of Talent Institute. We sat down with these legends at the ATC late last year to get their predictions for 2024… here they are and you are very welcome! Thank you to Outhire for your support this month.

Jan 28, 202438 minSeason 6Ep. 296

Episode 295 - All Your Weekly Recruitment & TA News with The Scoop!

This week on the Scoop, where the TaPod crew deliver all the best TA & Recruitment News directly to you, we go BANG on AI! Swapping Australia Day and other holidays in the workplace. What are the Top 10 roles projected for 2024? And much, much more. Thank you to our great friends at Indeed for your ongoing support.

Jan 23, 202418 minSeason 6Ep. 295

Episode 294 - Summer Series - Holy Crap! Now Candidates are using AI... we're entering the age of the Terminator...

In TaPod's final episode of the 2024 Summer Series, It's Craig's pick... and he takes us back to a fascinating catch up with the brilliant Hung Lee to discuss how candidates are gaming the system with AI. This is one of the most interesting podcasts we’ve ever done. It’s thought-provoking and gives us a window into the (not too distant future). Hung always shares some very ‘left field’ thoughts like AI fulfilling the majority of the recruitment process from both sides – interacting back and fort...

Jan 21, 202447 minSeason 6Ep. 294

Episode 293 - All your weekly news with The Scoop is back for 2024!

The Scoop is BACK! The crew from Tapod are back with renewed energy and a sh*&load of news from the recruitment and talent acquisition industries. This week we look at Inflation… gender pay gap… the death of resumes… tik tok for recruitment… under desk sensors (yes you read right) and much much more. Thanks to our friends at Indeed for partnering with The Scoop for 2024.

Jan 16, 202423 minSeason 6Ep. 293

Summer Series Episode 292 - Overcoming the Mistake of a Lifetime... And How TA Teams can get Involved.

In this episode of our Summer Series we revisit one of our most raw and revealing episodes ever, TaPod speaks with Stu Holmes Founder of The Green Collar. Fresh off his presentation at ATC2023, Stu has spent time in prison himself for armed robbery and we look at how it affected him both inside and upon his release. Stu spends his days now dedicated to helping people who have been in jail get a second chance… and find a bridge back to employment. In an environment where many industries just can’...

Jan 14, 202455 minSeason 6Ep. 292

Summer Series - Episode 291 - We are entering a Golden Age of HRtech

Today we bring you the first in TaPod's Summer Series of Podcasts! This week Lauren has chosen to revisit a fun and informative chat with ‘Big Al’ Schirmer – GM Technology & Innovation at TQ Solutions from back in September. Alistair is at the forefront of building Tech Stacks that support talent functions and his insights on AI and how they will affect HRtech are unmissable. He encourages us to embrace AI and look at it like an Administrator or Assistant to help us make recruitment easier. ...

Jan 07, 202442 minSeason 6Ep. 291

Episode 290 - Your Weekly News with The Scoop

This week on The Scoop – your weekly dose of TA & Recruitment News the crew from TaPod treat you to their final broadcast for 2023! We cover all the big topics, LinkedIn hit a massive milestone… WFH dead & buried? We are about to ‘name & shame’ gender pay gap discrepancies… mass resignations expected in late January and much, much more… including celebrating a special person’s birthday! Thank you so much for listening and thank you to Indeed for supporting us for the entirety of 2023...

Dec 19, 202311 minSeason 5Ep. 290

Episode 289 - The Yearly Wrap with Jo Vohland & Edan Haddock

It’s our final episode for the year and the crew at Tapod catch up with Jo Vohland & Edan Haddock to review the sh&tshow of a year that it was in 2023 and look forward to 2024 (should we dare?). These 2 industry legends need no introduction and don’t hold back – and why should they? It’s a great listen and another example that none of us are alone – the TA community is strong! To anyone who has chucked us a listen this year thank you! To all of our industry partners thank you! And thank ...

Dec 16, 202359 minSeason 5Ep. 289

Tapod Episode 288 - Your Weekly News with The Scoop

This week on The Scoop, the team from Tapod tackle all the BIG News in the Recruitment and TA space including – visas, visas, visas… the broken ankle that stopped a nation…what Aussies really think about Christmas parties…which household TA name has taken the Big Chair at REA and much, much more. Thanks to our great friends at Indeed for your ongoing support.

Dec 12, 202317 minSeason 5Ep. 288

Episode 287 - You Think Your Chrissie Hiring is Busy... You Ain't Seen Nothing!

This week on TaPod, we share with you another fabulous interview we conducted at SmartRecruiters Hiring Success. Kim Nicholas is HR Area Lead, Talent Acquisition & Systems at The Warehouse Group NZ – We cover the massive annual Christmas hiring project, Gender Pay Gap, Tech Stack, SnapChat (we go there) and loads more. So come and meet Lauren’s new Poster Girl from across the Ditch! Thanks to Refapp for your ongoing support!

Dec 10, 202327 minSeason 5Ep. 287

Episode 286 - We Get Under The Hood at Refapp!

One of the things I really love about our partners is that time of month when we speak to them about their solution. On this special episode of TaPod we sit down with Emira Blomberg - Chief Strategy Officer at Refapp to understand the 'nuts and bolts'. We talk about why traditional reference checking is dead... the importance of data-led recruitment... and how referencing can indicate job success. Join us...

Dec 06, 202322 minSeason 5Ep. 286

Episode 285 - Your Weekly News With The Scoop

This week on The Scoop the crew from Tapod tackle all the weekly news in TA & Recruitment including: Fake Candidates on the increase… Public Service jobs surge… Gender Pay Gap name & shame… Fixed Term Contract rules are a changing and much, much more! Thanks to our brilliant partner Indeed for your ongoing support.

Dec 05, 202320 minSeason 5Ep. 285

Episode 284 - 'Survivor Guilt' Coping When Your Team is Gone...

We are so excited at TaPod to have one of the brilliant global minds, Dr Margie Warrell back on our podcast! Last time Margie spoke to us about Imposter Syndrome and this time we focus on Survivor Guilt . With all the lay-offs in our industry what about those left behind? The why me questions… We discuss all of this with Margie. Not only that we ask the really tough questions relating to her recent visit the Whitehouse (hobnobbing with Albo & Joe), like… ‘What’s the toilet like?’ It’s a fasc...

Dec 03, 202332 minSeason 5Ep. 284

Episode 283 - A Special Episode from Smart Recruiters - Hiring Success APAC

In this special episode of Tapod, we hit Hiring Success APAC. In a day filled with knowledge we catch up with Rebecca Carr - Chief Product Officer and Tony de Graaf Global GTM Director at Smart Recruiters – We talk Death by 1000 Cuts…Deep Compliance…Building a Business Case for Change… Leaning into AI and Cocaine Bear – yes. Cocaine Bear. Thanks to Rich Lewis-Jones, Agnes Bilik, and the rest of the Smart Recruiters team for putting on such a great event! We are grateful to RefApp for partnering ...

Nov 29, 202359 minSeason 5Ep. 283

Episode 282 - Your Weekly News with The Scoop

This week on the Scoop, the crew from Tapod bring you all the weekly TA & Recruitment News. We talk candidate privacy… trends for 2024… trouble in the consulting world… and much, much more! It’s been a BIG fortnight of events – especially in Sydney and we have news from everywhere. Not only that – this week’s news gives us a task to complete before next week. Thanks so much to Indeed for your support in bringing the news to the industry.

Nov 28, 202324 minSeason 5Ep. 282

Episode 281 - Overcoming the Mistake of a Lifetime... And How TA Teams can get Involved.

In one of our most raw and revealing episodes ever, TaPod speaks with Stu Holmes Founder of The Green Collar. Fresh off his presentation at ATC2023, Stu has spent time in prison himself for armed robbery and we look at how it affected him both inside and upon his release. Stu spends his days now dedicated to helping people who have been in jail get a second chance… and find a bridge back to employment. In an environment where many industries just can’t find talent there is a ready-made workforce...

Nov 26, 202354 minSeason 5Ep. 281

Episode 280 - Your Weekly News with The Scoop

This week on The Scoop… your weekly dose of TA & Recruitment News Lauren goes BANG! We cover AI in recruitment and all of the shenanigans going on at OpenAI… X goes Job Board… Livehire CEO takes a pay cut… WFH banned!... speaking of banning should your workplace ban the Christmas party? And much, much more. Thanks to our brilliant partner Indeed for all of your support in bringing you the news.

Nov 21, 202321 minSeason 5Ep. 280

Episode 279 - Nothing Holds Any Value Unless You Make Change... with Dom Price from Atlassian

Once in a while we sit down with someone that completely blows us away and on TaPod this week that’s exactly what happened! We caught up with Dom Price from Atlassian at the HR and L&D Innovation Techfest. Dom is a Work Futurist and TED Speaker and quite simply we could listen to him all day. But in Dom’s own words nothing he says holds any value unless you take action. So bolt in for the next 40 minutes, turn the mirror on yourself, ‘remove stuff’ and make change… Dom makes it easy. Lauren ...

Nov 19, 202340 minSeason 5Ep. 279

Episode 278 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with The Scoop

Today on The Scoop the crew from Tapod are joined by guest reporter Karen Thorley from Indeed. We cover all manner of recruitment and TA news including: Hilton jumping on the TikTok bandwagon… NZ narrowing the gender pay gap… Bill Boorman seeing some good news on the TA horizon and much much more. Thanks to the brilliant people at Indeed for the support.

Nov 14, 20239 minSeason 5Ep. 278

Episode 277 - Managing Your Contingent Workforce... It's easier than you think.

This week on Tapod, Craig is forced to fly solo as the Optus outage kept Lauren offline. He sat down with ‘Best Vendor Solution’ winners from ITAs2023, Giovanni Ribudiyanto from Allianz & Damian Bridge from Oncore. If you have a contingent workforce you really need to ask yourself 4 questions… Do you easily know how many contractors/contingent workers are in your business? Do you know where they are in your business? Do you know how much they are costing you and do you know if they are fully...

Nov 12, 202338 minSeason 5Ep. 277

Episode 276 - Your Weekly News With The Scoop

This week on the Scoop – your weekly dose of TA & Recruitment News we go all around the world! Medibank trial a 4-day work week… There’s acquisition news in the world of Rec-Tech… We’ll show you how to lose your bonus… And some positive Recruitment News… finally! Thanks to our fabulous sponsors Indeed for all your support.

Nov 07, 202320 minSeason 5Ep. 276
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