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TALKING TALENT - Recruitment Got Lazy? The Hard Truth About Hiring in 2026 | Akbar Karenga
Is Talent Acquisition facing its biggest challenge yet?Recorded live at IHR Manchester, Nitin Sharma and Sean Kennedy sit down with talent acquisition leader Akbar Karenga for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of hiring, the state of recruitment, skills-based hiring, DE&I, neurodiversity, candidate experience and why the industry may have become too reliant on shortcuts.While everyone else is talking about AI, this conversation focuses on the fundamentals that actually matter:✅ Why recruitment "got lazy" after the post-Covid hiring boom✅ The growing importance of skills-based hiring✅…
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