Edan Haddock - Total Talent 🇦🇺
Raw, unfiltered insights from inside the world of Talent Acquisition and Talent Management. No guests. No sponsors. No agenda. Just real talk from an in-house talent leader on what’s working, what’s broken, and what’s next. Each week, Edan Haddock shares honest reflections from the front line of talent — straight from the tools, for the people who live it every day.
Episodes
38 episodes
Why Your Next Career Breakthrough Won't Come From Google
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 experien...
Hiring Humans, Not Roles
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 exp...
Workforce Labs: Every Organisation Has a Boardroom. Very Few Have a Rehearsal Room.
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 expectatio...
The Metrics That Matter (And The Ones We Need To Let Go)
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....
When Experience Becomes Fiction: Can We Still Trust Candidate Stories?
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 questi...
Pay Transparency Isn't a Job Ad. It's an Operating Model.
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 t...
Talent Boards: Have We Mistaken Governance for Talent Management?
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'...
When Salary Stops Working: What Candidates Really Want
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, Eda...
The Death of Expertise
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 increasi...
The Hidden Cost of Global Talent: When Your Workday Never Ends
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 1...
LinkedIn Has Become Performance Art
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...
Australia: The Eurovision Entry of Talent Acquisition
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 t...
The Third Seat at the Table: Why Workforce Planning Can’t Survive Without Technology
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 ...
Stop Hiring. Start Designing: The Double Diamond Playbook for Talent Acquisition
In this episode, Edan Haddock unpacks Design Thinking through the Double Diamond model and why Talent Acquisition needs to stop jumping straight to hiring… and start designing better outcomes.Most TA teams are solving the wrong problem, ...
Talent Acquisition Is Dying. We Backed the Wrong Future
In this episode, Edan Haddock challenges the future of Talent Acquisition and whether it even has one.As AI, hiring managers, and access to talent reshape the hiring landscape, TA isn’t being replaced overnight… it’s being quietly stripp...
What Replaces EVP in a World Where Truth Is Decentralised?
In this episode, Edan Haddock calls out one of Talent’s biggest blind spots - EVP.For years, organisations have invested heavily in crafting the perfect Employer Value Proposition. But in a world where truth is decentralised, candidates ...
Job Hoppers Aren’t the Problem. Your Hiring Mindset Is.
In this episode, Edan Haddock takes aim at one of the most outdated beliefs in hiring: that candidates who “move around a lot” are a problem.What if they’re not?From the collapse of traditional career paths to the rise of Workforc...
You’re Not a Talent Leader. You’re a Product Manager.
In this episode, Edan Haddock challenges one of the biggest assumptions in Talent Acquisition.What if hiring isn’t a process to optimise… but a product to build?Most Talent teams are still operating like service desks. Taking brie...
What Drag Queens Taught Me About Mentorship (And Why Corporate Got It Wrong)
In this episode, Edan unpacks what happened when he was matched with a mentee through Movember’s MoMentor program - and why it made him question everything we think we know about mentoring.Drawing on a past conversation exploring Mother/...
HR Isn’t Broken… It’s Being Replaced
The End of CoEs and the Rise of Total TalentIn this episode, Edan Haddock takes on one of HR’s most established models… the Centre of Excellence.As technology accelerates and AI begins to take on more of the work t...
Presence Isn’t Productivity
In this episode, Edan Haddock dives into one of the most heated debates in modern work: return-to-office, hybrid, and working from home.Rather than taking sides in the location debate, Edan argues that the entire conversation is m...
HR Has a Bias Problem. And It’s Not the One We Talk About
In this episode, Edan Haddock explores a difficult but necessary conversation for HR and Talent teams: bias inside our own profession.HR spends a lot of time helping leaders understand bias in hiring, promotion and performance dec...
AI Is Forcing Recruiting To Be Human Again
In this episode, Edan challenges one of the biggest assumptions in Talent Acquisition: that more automation means less humanity.After years of digitising applications, scorecards and reference checks to survive scale, AI is now removing ...
Predictive Engagement: From Feedback to Firepower
In this episode, Edan pulls apart the engagement survey playbook and asks a tough question: is it driving performance, or just collecting complaints?As engagement increasingly moves into Talent functions, Edan explains why this shift mat...
Stop Policing Talent. Start Empowering It
In this episode, Edan Haddock shares his perspective on the growing culture of audits, rankings, and public critique within the Talent industry. He explores how this trend can create fear, discourage experimentation, and push organisations towa...