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Edan Haddock - Total Talent

Raw, unfiltered insight from inside talent acquisition and talent management. No guests. No sponsors. No agenda.Each week Edan Haddock, Head of Talent and People Experience at Movember, shares honest reflections from the front line of talent. Straight from the tools, for the people who live it every day.Episodes tackle the things the conference circuit tends to avoid: why skills-based hiring stalled, how to build a talent tech stack without the vendor gloss, what design thinking actually does for a

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37:08

We Stopped Recruiting. We Started Acquiring. What Are...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/10/09

Personnel became Human Resources. HR became People and Culture. Recruitment became Talent Acquisition. But what's next? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan explores the evolution of our industry's identity, the changing expectations of Talent professionals, and whether our fancy new job titles genuinely reflect the work we're doing. From Talent Intelligence and Strategic Talent Advisory to Talent Architecture, Workforce Strategy and Talent Orchestration, Edan unpacks emerging...

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26:29

When Networking Becomes Noise

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/10/02

LinkedIn was once one of the best places to make genuine professional connections. But what happens when the inbox becomes so noisy that we simply stop looking? In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan tackles the growing flood of LinkedIn messages, from automated sales pitches and relentless follow-ups to the familiar “I just applied for your role and wanted to introduce myself.” With his own inbox now approaching 100 messages a day, Edan asks whether we need a new standard of Li...

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26:15

Can You Boycott AI and Still Have a Career?

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/09/25

Two candidates. Two withdrawals. And the same concern: they weren’t comfortable working for an organisation that uses AI. In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan explores a question we’re probably going to hear much more often: Can you boycott AI and still have a career? From legitimate concerns around creativity, the environment, privacy and job displacement, to the reality that AI is rapidly becoming embedded in the everyday technology organisations use, this episode looks at w...

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26:55

When the World Stops: The Capacity Problem Talent Has...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/09/18

After an unexpected two-week break following the loss of his father-in-law and a sudden trip to Scotland, Edan returns with a personal follow-up to his recent episode on capacity planning. What happens when the person spinning all the plates suddenly has to stop? Talent teams are managing interviews, candidates, hiring managers, offers, inboxes and the constant pressure to deliver a great candidate experience. AI is helping us carry more than ever, but has it actually created capacity? Or has...

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28:59

I Don’t Want a Promotion: Have We Completely...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/08/28

What if your best employee doesn’t want your job? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan challenges one of the most deeply embedded assumptions in the workplace: that ambition means moving up. What about the person who wants mastery, impact, purpose or simply a great life outside of work? And what if an exceptional candidate tells you upfront they only want to stay for a year or two? Drawing on Movember’s employer brand, “DO GOOD – Work For Movember,” Edan explores why shorter t...

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29:50

Future-Proofing Talent Acquisition: 5 Capabilities...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/08/21

The Talent Acquisition industry is nervous. Teams are shrinking, redundancies are happening, AI is accelerating and some of the work recruiters have traditionally owned is changing fast. So what do you do about it? In this episode, Edan Haddock argues that the answer isn’t to protect the traditional TA role. It’s to expand beyond it. Edan breaks down five capabilities internal Talent professionals should start building now to remain relevant and valuable in Workforce 5.0, from remuneration an...

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33:52

Your Name Is the Brand: When Personal and...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/08/14

Where does your professional brand end and your personal brand begin? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores how those lines are rapidly disappearing. Our opinions, expertise, personality, employers, online presence and professional reputation increasingly exist in the same place. But as personal branding becomes an industry of its own, have we started confusing visibility with credibility? Edan challenges the obsession with followers, algorithms and manufactured authenticity, explores how em...

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16:39

Why Your Next Career Breakthrough Won't Come From Google

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/08/07

In this episode Edan explores why access to information is no longer the competitive advantage it once was. In a world where AI can generate frameworks, answer questions and build strategies in seconds, the real value now lies in human experience, shared learning and professional community. Using the upcoming Startup People Summit as a real-world example, Edan reflects on the growing importance of specialist events that bring practitioners together to solve the challenges that can't be Google...

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17:56

Hiring Humans, Not Roles

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/07/31

For decades, organisations have been built around job descriptions, career pathways, salary bands and job architecture. But what happens when work evolves faster than we can redesign the roles themselves? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores a provocative question for the Workplace 5.0 era. What if the future isn't about hiring into predefined roles at all? As AI becomes part of our teams and human capability becomes the true competitive advantage, do traditional job architecture, remunerat...

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26:30

Workforce Labs: Every Organisation Has a Boardroom....

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/07/24

In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan introduces the concept of the Workforce Lab - a new way of thinking about how organisations prepare for the future of work. As technology, AI and workforce expectations evolve at an unprecedented pace, Edan explores why traditional governance and annual workforce planning are no longer enough. Instead, he makes the case for creating dedicated spaces where organisations can experiment, challenge assumptions and prototype new ways of wor...

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16:33

The Metrics That Matter (And The Ones We Need To Let Go)

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/07/17

Every Talent team has dashboards. Every Talent leader reports metrics. But are we measuring what really matters? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the difference between operational recruitment metrics and true business intelligence. From Time to Hire and Cost per Hire through to succession risk, role criticality, performance, potential and workforce resilience, this episode challenges the way Talent functions prove their value. If Talent wants a seat at the executive table, we need to s...

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14:05

When Experience Becomes Fiction: Can We Still Trust...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/07/10

Behavioural interviews, competency frameworks and reference checks are designed to uncover the truth. But what happens when the story itself is fiction? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores one of recruitment's most uncomfortable questions. Can candidates bluff their way through modern hiring processes? Where is the line between selling yourself and inventing achievements? And if references are chosen by the candidate, how much validation is actually possible? This episode looks at confiden...

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17:36

Pay Transparency Isn't a Job Ad. It's an Operating...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/07/03

Pay transparency is one of the hottest topics in Talent today, but is listing a salary on every job ad really as simple as many people make it sound? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the reality behind pay transparency, responding to the growing narrative that organisations not advertising remuneration are simply getting it wrong. Drawing on Movember's own journey to full pay transparency and a 0% gender pay gap, Edan unpacks why transparency is the result of years of work across remune...

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43:34

Talent Boards: Have We Mistaken Governance for Talent...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/06/26

Talent Boards have become a familiar part of the HR and Talent landscape. But have we started mistaking governance for Talent Management itself? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan challenges one of the profession's accepted norms. He explores whether Talent Boards are simply a modern governance mechanism built on long-established Talent Management practices such as succession planning, high potential identification and capability development, and argues that the real work ha...

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30:54

When Salary Stops Working: What Candidates Really Want

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/06/19

Talent Acquisition once operated under a simple assumption: pay people more and they'll join, stay and perform. But what happens when salary stops being a deciding factor? In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan explores one of the biggest shifts happening in the world of work. Drawing on research, personal experience and observations from years spent in Talent Acquisition, he examines what really drives candidates once compensation becomes "good enough". From freedom and flexibi...

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17:07

The Death of Expertise

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/06/12

In a world where everyone has a platform, an audience and now AI at their fingertips, has expertise become harder to recognise? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the growing gap between visibility and credibility. Why are we increasingly mistaking confidence for competence, reach for expertise and content for capability? Has social media changed how we define experts? And what happens when opinions can be generated faster than experience can be earned? Drawing on observations from Talent...

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16:28

The Hidden Cost of Global Talent: When Your Workday...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/05/29

Everyone talks about the expanding scope of Talent. Nobody talks about the expanding reach. In this episode, Edan explores the reality of running global Talent portfolios from Australia. The early starts. The late-night calls. The 14-hour workday. The pressure to always be available across APAC, Europe and North America. As Talent evolves into Total Talent, are we creating sustainable careers or designing jobs that quietly lead to burnout? And could agentic AI finally be the answer? Join the...

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25:36

LinkedIn Has Become Performance Art

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/05/23

LinkedIn used to be a professional networking platform. Now? It feels more like performance art. In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan unpacks the strange evolution of LinkedIn and what it’s doing to Recruitment, Talent Acquisition and leadership culture. From recruiter influencers and AI-generated thought leadership to performative vulnerability, personal branding and the rise of “corporate creators”, this is a raw and honest look at the modern professional identity cris...

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23:41

Australia: The Eurovision Entry of Talent Acquisition

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/05/15

This week on Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan takes Talent Acquisition somewhere unexpected… Eurovision. As Australia steps onto the world stage once again, Edan explores why Australian Talent Acquisition still seems to seek permission to belong in the global conversation. From the dominance of the US and UK, to the rise of markets like Singapore and the Netherlands, this episode breaks down who really leads Talent Acquisition globally, why they lead, and what Australia might be missing. But...

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26:03

The Third Seat at the Table: Why Workforce Planning...

Edan Haddock - Total Talent ·

2026/05/08

In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan Haddock explores why traditional workforce planning models are breaking in the era of AI and Workforce 5.0. As technology rapidly reshapes jobs and capability needs, Edan argues workforce planning can no longer sit solely between HR and Finance. Enter the “Workforce Triangle” - HR, Finance and Technology designing the future of work together. This episode dives into portfolio careers, the rise of consulting and fixed-term work, the future o...

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