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Episode 614 - 'When I have a goal - I'll stop at...

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2026/10/11

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Annalise Neal, Senior Talent Partner at Culture Amp who won the Enterprise Talent Professional of the Year Award at the 2026 Internal Talent Awards. Exceeding her personal target by 25%, Annalise describes herself as process-obsessed and loves looking for efficiencies. From reducing times to hire by 33% to building talent pools to changing hiring manager thinking, Annalise tells us the proof is in the metrics. Working across engineering, Culture Amp’s grad...

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Episode 613 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with...

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2026/10/06

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. We have all kinds of stories, including fun and frivolity in Hobart, police recruitment in the mud, plenty on LinkedIn, data centre recruitment thriving, ADF improving the trade drain, Snoop Dogg recruits an ice cream taster, and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us to bring you the Scoop.

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31:35

Episode 612 - Turning Compliance into a Competitive...

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2026/10/04

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Kimberley Manning, Director of TA – Australia & NZ at Delaware North, and Aaron Smith, co-founder & CTO at Check Work Rights, who won the Best Vendor Solution Award at the 2026 Internal Talent Awards sponsored by TaPod. Championing compliance is a real point of difference in Delaware North’s GTM, and with over 7000 employees, this can be a huge challenge. Join us as we breakdown ‘Check Intelligence’, AI and compliance fraud. Thanks to Greenho...

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Episode 611 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with...

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2026/09/29

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week Lauren is off, and Bonnie is back and misbehaving. We have all kinds of stories including, working for free is not on, candidates prefer to interview with bots, Christmas comes early, Aussies scrambling for second jobs, the ‘profiler’ is the recruitment superhero we all need, Gen Z looking for new roles and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events. Thanks to Indeed for partnering w...

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29:43

Episode 610 - When Candidate Experience is the Centre...

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2026/09/27

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Kristy Glew and Jessica Raslan from Each, who won the Excellence in Candidate Experience Award at the 2026 Internal Talent Awards sponsored by Havas People. Servicing over 36,000 applicants, CX is a real focus for the team at Each. From their recruit and onboard hub to support hiring managers, to over 70 language translations, to accessibility enhancements to a careers website redesign and much more. Thanks to Smart Recruiters for partnering with us for th...

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27:04

Episode 609 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with...

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2026/09/22

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week Craig is off, Bonnie jumps into his seat, and we are in for a bucket of fun, including Gen Z turns up to interviews with an iced coffee, Fair Work in the news again, Virgin cancels flights over cabin crew resourcing, changes to skilled migration visas, brutal UK numbers for over 50 job seekers, transgender social worker wins case and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events. ...

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32:45

Episode 608 - Celebrating the VERY best in our...

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2026/09/20

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Emma Cassidy – Group Head of Talent Acquisition & Workforce Solutions at Ampol. In a triple threat, Ampol won the Enterprise Talent Team of the Year, and the Best Contingent Workforce Program at ITAs’ 2026… throw in Emma’s own individual award for Enterprise Talent Leader of the Year and it was an exclamation point on a year of transformation and success. Join us as we breakdown these winning submissions across, EVP revamp, careers site upgrade, tech i...

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25:10

Episode 607 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with...

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2026/09/15

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles including, AI redundancies being hired back, Japanese are getting recruitment creative, non-compete clauses being removed under legislation, WFH changes stall, crazy reason a candidate was rejected, surge in AI-generated applications pushing recruitment processes out, judge blocks Trump culture-fit question and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events. ...

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33:45

Episode 606 - The 'B' suite benchmarks with Rebecca...

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2026/09/13

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Rebecca Houghton, Australia’s leading Middle Management Expert, Founder of BoldHR, Speaker, Best-selling Author and a brilliant person to boot! Today, we’re discussing the ‘B-Suite Benchmarks Report', the only comprehensive study of Middle Managers in Australia. We drill down on a variety of statistics, causes, risks and remedies including 21% of Middle Managers are operating in the ‘AI-Risk zone’, 63% report high frustration and influence takes over from ...

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23:46

Episode 605 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with...

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2026/09/08

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles including, WFH laws might just be unconstitutional, recruiter rocks up for an interview straight from Vegas, talent gaps driving jobs offshore, bots keep interviewers on their toes, over 1 million holding down 2 (or more) jobs in Australia, man pretends to hallucinate in a job interview, AI work colleagues described as genius, sociopathic five-year-olds and much more. And hey, do...

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29:35

Episode 604 - It starts with Trust & Relationships...

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2026/09/06

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Jake Ellul, TA Manager at Consolidated Power Projects, all the way from Adelaide. They are doing great things at CPP – moving from a recruitment delivery function to a full strategic workforce partner. We talk tech, ‘C’ suite buy-in and transformation. And it all starts with trust and relationships. Thanks to Smart Recruiters for partnering with us for this episode.

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16:36

Episode 603 - You're Weekly TA & Recruitment News...

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2026/09/01

It’s time for all the best TA & Recruitment News from here and around the globe with the Scoop. Presented by the number 1 TA podcast in APAC – TaPod. We cover all kinds of drama including, the job market is broken according to Wired, strikes and more strikes in Australia and NZ, North Korean spies infiltrate US Government, Fair Work pass on costs for AI slop, the FBI open to hiring prostitutes and much more. Big thanks to Indeed for supporting the Scoop

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29:59

Episode 602 - What's Happening in DE&I? With Deepak...

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2026/08/30

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Deepak Singh, Culture & DE&I expert at Mission and Rhythm. Deepak really knows his stuff, having been named in the top 12 at the HR Influencer Awards 2026. According to Deepak, great culture comes from great leadership, and that is the place we need to focus on to generate meaning in the workplace. Most of us are carrying a lot of work weight and stress due to many issues, including changes in DE&I policy, changes driven by AI and unstable econ...

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16:49

Episode 601 - Workday & Paradox. The happy marriage.

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2026/08/26

Join us for a special Tapod episode, where we catch up with Adam Godson – GM Talent Acquisition Products at Workday and former CEO at Paradox. We talk new products, enhancements, and updates at Workday. As well as touch on the excitement of the Workday/Paradox marriage. Adam is super excited with where HR Tech is headed and gives us great insights into what the next couple of years might look like – join us.

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19:39

Episode 600! Your Weekly TA and Recruitment News with...

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2026/08/25

Welcome to TaPod’s 600th episode! It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, unemployment on the up, Workday valuation is through the roof, KPMG shrinking under scandal, interviewer catches candidate out, Fair Work Commission hands out new rules, LinkedIn profile edits creating risk, FedEx workers to strike, Google doesn’t trust its own AI, and much more. And hey, don’t forget to check out upcoming events. Thanks t...

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Episode 599 - The 2026 State of TA report with Jo Vo

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2026/08/23

This week on Tapod, we catch up with the brilliant Jo Vohland, Director, Curator & Event Host from ATC. And today we are all about the 2026 State of TA Report. With almost 250 Talent Teams contributing to a 41-page report and 18,000 data cells. It is chock-full of information from maturity levels, to the impact of AI, to what’s driving industry-wide redundancies, to restructuring, to skills, advisory, tasks and outcomes, to what a future talent function may look like. This episode gives y...

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24:13

Episode 598 - Your Weekly TA & recruitment News with...

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2026/08/18

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, including Harvard finds women on Ozempic have better work prospects, Lauren goes whack on Oracle, digital literacy required in 90% of all roles, Hobart is Australia’s best city for career growth, 24% of AI job interviews happening in the middle of the night, Lunar the AI Agent dismisses human employee, recruitment and Chinese spies, global youth unemployment skyrockets. And much...

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Episode 597 - Hey TA - Stop Playing & Start Building...

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2026/08/16

This week on Tapod, we catch up with Emi Beredugo, Senior Manager – Recruiting Enablement @Elastic, Non-Executive Director, Advisory Board Member, Speaker & Podcaster and most importantly a bloody fantastic person. We talk AI and specifically what’s next for TA. Emi is very, very clear—we need to stop prompting and start building—but what should we be building? And more importantly, where the bloody hell do we start? Here’s the road map. And if your leaders aren’t your champions… start th...

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Episode 596 - The Sanofi Transformation with Lia...

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2026/08/13

On our special TaPod does Recfest UK series, we catch up with Lia Manafova - Talent Tech Strategy Lead at Sanofi. If you want to hear about a real transformation journey Lia has got a story for you! Integrating Paradox (a Workday company) into their business saved 38.6 minutes via email applications and 84.5 minutes via WhatsApp while still focusing on candidate experience, and fully automated scheduling runs in 8 seconds! And that’s just for starters. Join us in the glorious UK sunshin...

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Episode 595 - Your Weekly TA & Recruitment News with...

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2026/08/11

It’s your weekly TA & Recruitment news blast with the Scoop from TaPod. This week we cover all kinds of angles, including Deel and Rippling in new drama, the EU AI Act in force, job ads on the up, Lauren gets political, Craig has marbles in his mouth, the candidate putting cricket ahead of Saturdays, AI users maybe working longer hours, and candidates getting smarter… or are they? And much more. Thanks to Indeed for partnering with us to bring you the Scoop.

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