Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring? Round Up December 2025
Jan 14, 2026
Rhona Barnett-Pierce, a former recruiter turned personal branding strategist, joins Matt to dissect key insights from December 2025. They delve into the trust issues stemming from poor job design and how clear job architecture can enhance AI's role in recruitment. Rhona emphasizes the need for clarity and urgency in hiring executive talent, while exploring the balance between automation and human interaction. They also highlight the importance of data-driven trends that can shape a more strategic approach in talent acquisition.
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Trust Breaks Before Jobs Go Live
- Recruiters often self-inflict candidate trust problems by posting unclear or speculative jobs.
- Improving hiring intent and role clarity upstream reduces chaos downstream.
Map Tasks To Realise AI Value
- AI automates tasks, not whole jobs, so task-level job architecture is essential.
- Without task mapping, companies risk cutting roles and losing productivity gains from AI.
Use LLMs To Build Job Architecture
- Use AI and LLMs to build task-level job architectures that reveal what to automate versus augment.
- Follow Ben Zveig's practical walkthrough to implement this approach at scale.