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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…
Episodes
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Can You Still Trust a CV? Hiring in the Age of AI and Candidate Fraud
What does trust mean in recruitment when information is increasingly easy to manufacture? In Episode 5 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan explores how…
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AI Made Every Candidate Look Good. Now What?
What happens when AI makes every candidate look like the perfect candidate? In Episode 4 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan explores an uncomfortable…
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Who Actually Works Here? The Workforce Blind Spot
How many people actually work for your organisation? Not your permanent headcount. Your entire workforce. In Episode 3 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission…
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Pick Up The Phone: Did We Break Reference Checking?
What if reference checking isn’t broken… but the way we’ve automated it is? In Episode 2 of 30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission., Edan takes a fresh look at one…
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The More We Automate, The More Human We Need To Become
What happens when AI gets better at doing the work, but humans still need to get better at working with each other? In the first episode of 30 Days. 30…
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30 Days. 30 Episodes. One Mission. | The Series 3 Finale
Series 3 of Edan Haddock – Total Talent is coming to a close, but something much bigger is about to begin. From 1 November, Edan is launching Series 4 with an…
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UPLIFT 2026: The Future of Talent Is Human. And That's the Point.
Two days. Incredible insights. And a powerful reminder of what makes the Talent community so special. In this episode, Edan Haddock reflects on his experience…
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We Stopped Recruiting. We Started Acquiring. What Are We Calling Ourselves Next?
Personnel became Human Resources. HR became People and Culture. Recruitment became Talent Acquisition. But what's next? In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total…
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When Networking Becomes Noise
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…
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Can You Boycott AI and Still Have a Career?
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 –…
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When the World Stops: The Capacity Problem Talent Has Normalised
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…
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I Don’t Want a Promotion: Have We Completely Misunderstood Ambition?
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…
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Future-Proofing Talent Acquisition: 5 Capabilities I’d Build Right Now
The Talent Acquisition industry is nervous. Teams are shrinking, redundancies are happening, AI is accelerating and some of the work recruiters have…
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Your Name Is the Brand: When Personal and Professional Identity Collide
Where does your professional brand end and your personal brand begin? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores how those lines are rapidly disappearing. Our…
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Why Your Next Career Breakthrough Won't Come From Google
In this episode Edan explores why access to information is no longer the competitive advantage it once was. In a world where AI can generate frameworks, answer…
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Hiring Humans, Not Roles
For decades, organisations have been built around job descriptions, career pathways, salary bands and job architecture. But what happens when work evolves…
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Workforce Labs: Every Organisation Has a Boardroom. Very Few Have a Rehearsal Room.
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan introduces the concept of the Workforce Lab - a new way of thinking about how organisations prepare for…
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The Metrics That Matter (And The Ones We Need To Let Go)
Every Talent team has dashboards. Every Talent leader reports metrics. But are we measuring what really matters? In this episode, Edan Haddock explores the…
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When Experience Becomes Fiction: Can We Still Trust Candidate Stories?
Behavioural interviews, competency frameworks and reference checks are designed to uncover the truth. But what happens when the story itself is fiction? In…
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Pay Transparency Isn't a Job Ad. It's an Operating Model.
Pay transparency is one of the hottest topics in Talent today, but is listing a salary on every job ad really as simple as many people make it sound? In this…
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Talent Boards: Have We Mistaken Governance for Talent Management?
Talent Boards have become a familiar part of the HR and Talent landscape. But have we started mistaking governance for Talent Management itself? In this…
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When Salary Stops Working: What Candidates Really Want
Talent Acquisition once operated under a simple assumption: pay people more and they'll join, stay and perform. But what happens when salary stops being a…
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The Death of Expertise
In a world where everyone has a platform, an audience and now AI at their fingertips, has expertise become harder to recognise? In this episode, Edan Haddock…
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The Hidden Cost of Global Talent: When Your Workday Never Ends
Everyone talks about the expanding scope of Talent. Nobody talks about the expanding reach. In this episode, Edan explores the reality of running global Talent…
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LinkedIn Has Become Performance Art
LinkedIn used to be a professional networking platform. Now? It feels more like performance art. In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan unpacks…
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Australia: The Eurovision Entry of Talent Acquisition
This week on Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan takes Talent Acquisition somewhere unexpected… Eurovision. As Australia steps onto the world stage once again…
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The Third Seat at the Table: Why Workforce Planning Can’t Survive Without Technology
In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, Edan Haddock explores why traditional workforce planning models are breaking in the era of AI and Workforce…
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Stop Hiring. Start Designing: The Double Diamond Playbook for Talent Acquisition
In this episode, Edan Haddock unpacks Design Thinking through the Double Diamond model and why Talent Acquisition needs to stop jumping straight to hiring… and…
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Talent Acquisition Is Dying. We Backed the Wrong Future
In this episode, Edan Haddock challenges the future of Talent Acquisition and whether it even has one. As AI, hiring managers, and access to talent reshape the…
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What Replaces EVP in a World Where Truth Is Decentralised?
In this episode, Edan Haddock calls out one of Talent’s biggest blind spots - EVP. For years, organisations have invested heavily in crafting the perfect…
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Job Hoppers Aren’t the Problem. Your Hiring Mindset Is.
In this episode, Edan Haddock takes aim at one of the most outdated beliefs in hiring: that candidates who “move around a lot” are a problem. What if they’re…
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You’re Not a Talent Leader. You’re a Product Manager.
In this episode, Edan Haddock challenges one of the biggest assumptions in Talent Acquisition. What if hiring isn’t a process to optimise… but a product to…
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What Drag Queens Taught Me About Mentorship (And Why Corporate Got It Wrong)
In this episode, Edan unpacks what happened when he was matched with a mentee through Movember’s MoMentor program - and why it made him question everything we…
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HR Isn’t Broken… It’s Being Replaced
The End of CoEs and the Rise of Total Talent In this episode, Edan Haddock takes on one of HR’s most established models… the Centre of Excellence. As…
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Presence Isn’t Productivity
In this episode, Edan Haddock dives into one of the most heated debates in modern work: return-to-office, hybrid, and working from home. Rather than taking…
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HR Has a Bias Problem. And It’s Not the One We Talk About
In this episode, Edan Haddock explores a difficult but necessary conversation for HR and Talent teams: bias inside our own profession. HR spends a lot of time…
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AI Is Forcing Recruiting To Be Human Again
In this episode, Edan challenges one of the biggest assumptions in Talent Acquisition: that more automation means less humanity. After years of digitising…
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Predictive Engagement: From Feedback to Firepower
In this episode, Edan pulls apart the engagement survey playbook and asks a tough question: is it driving performance, or just collecting complaints? As…
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Stop Policing Talent. Start Empowering It
In this episode, Edan Haddock shares his perspective on the growing culture of audits, rankings, and public critique within the Talent industry. He explores…
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Humans, AI & Australia’s 2025 Talent Event Shake-Up
In this episode of the Total Talent Podcast, host Edan Haddock dives into the future of Talent in Australia and why our HR industry is leading the global…
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Candidate Fraud, Fear-mongering, and the Future of Hiring
AI-generated résumés. Voice-cloned interviews. Dark-web fraud rings plotting to infiltrate your payroll. Sounds like a cyber-thriller, right? This episode of…
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Boundaries – The Real Talent Edge
Edan Haddock dives deep into the messy reality of boundaries in modern Talent work. From 24/7 LinkedIn messages to global-time-zone burnout, he calls out the…
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Talent Tech Stacks: Play Loud, Build Smart
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan Haddock takes Talent teams behind the curtain on how to research, design, and select a Talent Tech Stack…
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No More With Less: The Productivity Rebellion in Talent Acquisition
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan takes a sledgehammer to one of the most toxic myths in Talent Acquisition: that leaders in 2025 must “do…
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From Checklists to Chaos: The Death of Skills-Based Hiring
Skills-based hiring was once the rebel of recruitment. It tore down degree snobbery, broke open new talent pools, and promised a fairer future of work. But in…
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Partner → Inform → Transform – A Simple, Effective Framework for Building People & Talent Strategy
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan dives deep into a simple but powerful framework for building a Talent Acquisition and People Experience…
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Beyond the Blind: Why Personalisation Wins in 2025
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan dives deep into the hot topic of blind resumes and blind job applications. Sparked by two recent…
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Succession Secrets: How TA Can Future-Proof Roles and People
Host Edan Haddock unpacks how Talent Acquisition teams can step into the driver’s seat of succession planning. Edan breaks succession planning into two sides…
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Agentic AI in Talent Acquisition: Are We Ready?
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan unpacks the results of a recent LinkedIn poll on Agentic AI in recruitment interviewing – and the Talent…
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Top 20 HR Influencers in Australia 2025 – Spotlight & Stories
In this episode of Edan Haddock - Total Talent, host Edan Haddock breaks down Favikon’s Top 20 HR Influencers in Australia for 2025. Discover the leaders…
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Why Talent Acquisition Leaders Must Stay on the Tools
In this episode of Edan Haddock – Total Talent, Edan unpacks why Talent Acquisition leaders must stay on the tools to remain credible and effective. From…
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Why Community Matters in Talent
In this debut episode, Edan Haddock unpacks why he handed the Rubberband podcast back to the community and why unbiased, self-managed groups are so vital in HR…