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 hiring brief, why "do more with less" is a myth worth dismantling, and whether Australian talent acquisition still asks permission to belong in the global conversation. This is an independent, practitioner-led show. Nothing here is sold, sponsored or ghost-written. If you work in talent and want an unvarnished view from someone still doing the job, start anywhere.

Edan Haddock - Total Talent is a business podcast hosted by Edan Haddock, with 43 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Edan Haddock hosts Edan Haddock - Total Talent, a business show with 43 episodes published.

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  Episode #17

  When Networking Becomes Noise

  Oct 2, 202626 minS3

  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 LinkedIn etiquette. Has automation made reaching people so easy that we’re destroying the value of being able to reach them at all? And if our LinkedIn inboxes become another dumping ground for spam, what happens to the genuine human connection that made the platform valuable in the first place? Maybe it’s time we stopped asking how to send more messages and started thinking about which messages actually deserve to be sent. No guests. No sponsors. Just Total Talent. ️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes. 1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent . Together, we can help change the face of men's health.

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  Episode #16

  Can You Boycott AI and Still Have a Career?

  Sep 24, 202626 minS3

  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 what happens when personal values collide with the changing world of work. Could “AI-free” workplaces become a genuine niche? Could refusing to work alongside AI eventually limit employability? And perhaps most importantly, can we embrace technology while actually becoming more human , not less? No guests. No sponsors. Just a conversation about one of the more complicated questions emerging from Workforce 5.0. ️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes. 1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent . Together, we can help change the face of men's health.

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  Episode #15

  When the World Stops: The Capacity Problem Talent Has Normalised

  Sep 17, 202627 minS3

  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 it simply exposed how under-resourced Talent has been for decades? This episode explores productivity versus overload, the need for genuine headroom, and why AI should help us do better, not simply do more. Because sometimes the world stops. Our Talent functions need to be designed for when it does. ️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes. 1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent . Together, we can help change the face of men's health.

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  Episode #14

  I Don’t Want a Promotion: Have We Completely Misunderstood Ambition?

  Aug 27, 202629 minS3

  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 tenure doesn’t necessarily mean a bad hire, why retention might be the wrong measure of success, and why organisations need to get much more comfortable with talented people choosing their own definition of ambition. Maybe ambition was never the problem. Maybe our definition of it was. ️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes. 1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent . Together, we can help change the face of men's health.

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  Episode #13

  Future-Proofing Talent Acquisition: 5 Capabilities I’d Build Right Now

  Aug 21, 202630 minS3

  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 and salary benchmarking to workforce planning, talent management, data and designing work across humans and technology. Because the future may not belong to the person who is best at filling vacancies. It may belong to the person who can help the business decide whether a vacancy should exist in the first place. Don’t protect your role. Expand your capability. ️ 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. This November, Edan Haddock - Total Talent is taking on its biggest challenge yet. 30 consecutive days. 30 brand-new podcast episodes. 1 goal: raising funds for Movember and helping change the face of men's health. No sponsors. No shortcuts. Just honest conversations and a community coming together for something bigger than a podcast. The countdown has begun. If you believe in better conversations, better workplaces and better outcomes for men's health, I'd love your support. Follow the podcast. Share the campaign. Donate if you can. Every action helps. Donate now: https://au.movember.com/mospace/15366090 Let's make this the biggest month in the history of Edan Haddock - Total Talent . Together, we can help change the face of men's health.

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