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12.06.25
What does my TA function look like in 5 years?
The best practice for what a TA function will look like in 5 years hasn't been defined yet...
For those brave enough, there is an opportunity to become the best practice.
30+ senior TA leaders came together to exchange ideas and map out the future.
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What does my TA function look like in 5 years?
What does my TA function look like in 5 years?
Date: 12th June 2025 location: VML Map, Sea containers, London
- There is no single, fixed future for Talent Acquisition.
- But there is enormous change and we are the ones behind the wheel.
- TA doesn’t just fill seats, it builds systems, communities, and capability.
- We’re not waiting to be told what the future looks like.
- We’re co-designing it 🚀🚀🚀
Event Agenda
- x3 TedTalk style presentations from the community
- Q&A and debate amongst residents
- Workshop to map the future
x3 TedTalk style presentations
Chris pidgeon
Snr Director, Talent Acquistion, EMEAA @ IHG Hotels
Chris shared a vision for TA as an internal paid service. But done properly. This, he believed, would breed better quality, thus reputation and undeniable value. Correcting the incentives and inefficiencies in some current structures. He had some help along the way, with an AI conversational sparring partner called Maya. She had been trained on the inner workings of Chris’s TA strategic mind and piped up with some thoughts of her own. An entertaining and thought-provoking opening to our event.
Cheryl White
Talent Acquistion Director @ tide
Cheryl shared her vision for evolving talent pools. From static to flexible. From out of date to truly signal-based. She framed her concept as “Talent Clouds”. Through smarter, bi-directional communication, we can engage silver medallists, who passed the high benchmarks previously, and create primed talent for hiring today. She brought to life how these would be enabled by emerging tech and strategically critical in future.
Ben Rutter
Founder of House of Visionaries
Ben shared his thoughts on how AI would impact the structure and design of our TA function. He pegged his vision within 3 time horizons, 1 – 2 years, 2- 5 years and 5+ years. This included near term concepts like “Talent Engineers”, and future concepts of “Self Serve Recruitment” and “Bot to Bot recruitment”.
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