The Recruiting Future Podcast is the world’s leading podcast on Talent Acquisition and regularly appears in the Chartable Global Business Top 100 chart.
Written with my co-author, Mervyn Dinnen, we have published two books focusing on the continually evolving talent marketplace.
Exceptional Talent was published in 2017, and Digital Talent was released in 2022.
In a disrupted and technology-enabled world of work, HR professionals’ ability to attract, recruit and retain people with digital skills can be the difference between business success and failure.
Digital Talent equips HR with the tools they need to assess what these critical skills are, how to attract the people who have them, keep these people engaged, productive and performing to the best of their abilities. It also provides crucial guidance on how to continuously develop employees, including leaders, to ensure that the organization has the skills it needs both for today and the future.
This book provides advice on how to create new processes that are fit for purpose in the age of digital transformation, build inclusion when digital culture is becoming more prominent and use digital abilities effectively to maximise productivity while maintaining employee wellbeing. Digital Talent is the book on talent that HR , talent acquisition professionals and business leaders need to make sure that their people, and the business as a whole, stay ahead of the competition.
Attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the right people is crucial to an organization’s success. The stakes have never been higher: a 2015 study by CAP suggests that the average cost of employee attrition is 20% of a mid-level employee’s annual salary and up to 213% of a high-level executive’s salary. In a business environment changing so rapidly that jobs which will be essential in 2020 don’t even exist yet, Exceptional Talent examines how changes in technology, communication, and employee preferences are impacting the talent journey. It gives practical advice for how to build an effective recruitment and talent management strategy to meet the needs of the business today and prepare for the challenges of the future.
Exceptional Talent covers how to build an authentic employer brand, explores new ways of sourcing candidates and explains how to use print, digital, social and mobile platforms to target the right people in the right way. Highlighting the impact of networks, relationships and referrals on talent acquisition, it also provides tools and techniques to create an efficient recruitment process, strategies for effective onboarding of new employees as well as practical advice and best practice case studies for retaining and engaging employees.
