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Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

Ep 789: Leading TA Through AI Acceleration

Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring? · Apr 27, 2026 · 27:31

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Something has shifted in AI over the last few months. The pace of AI model updates keeps increasing, and strategies that made sense a few months ago are already out of date. New tools can take on long, complex pieces of work largely on their own, changing what's possible across hiring. For TA leaders, long-term planning has become almost impossible, while the recruiter's role itself is being rethought as candidates use AI just as actively as employers do.



So what does effective TA leadership actually look like right now?

My guest this week is Bryan Ackermann, Head of AI Strategy and Transformation at Korn Ferry. In our conversation, Bryan shares the changes he is seeing across the recruiting funnel and how organizations can build the resilience they need to keep pace.

In the interview, we discuss:


The accelerating pace of AI change

Why AI literacy now matters everywhere

Is candidate AI use cheating or demonstrating capability?

The superpowered employee

The evolving role of the recruiter

Agents talking to agents

Where human moments still matter

Resilience and shorter planning horizons

Advice to TA Leaders

What does the future look like?




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