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Summer’s here, but the early careers landscape doesn’t stand still! As candidates become more selective and expectations continue to rise, getting your approach right has never mattered more.
The Talent Digest brings together the insights, new and trends to help you stay one step ahead.
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Assess mindset, adaptability & critical thinking with our new AI Skills Assessment
The workforce is transforming – your hiring should too! Employers must move beyond simply adopting AI in recruitment and begin assessing candidates’ AI capability and potential.
Organisations need people who can collaborate with intelligent tools, adapt quickly, and solve problems creatively. Identifying these strengths now ensures a future-ready workforce that can thrive in an AI-driven economy.
Our new AI Skills Assessment can help you understand how candidates engage with it in a secure, insightful, and future-facing way.
Find out more in the short video below:
The Talent Download Podcast
In the latest episode of The Talent Download podcast, host Darren Lancaster was joined by Spencer Hurley, Head of Executive Search & Selection at Spire Healthcare, for an eye-opening discussion on the real state of talent acquisition in 2026.
You can also listen now on the following channels:
🎙️Spotify -The Talent Download
🎙️Apple – The Talent Download
You can also watch the episode in full here:
Latest Insights
Designing AI-Era Assessments that Candidates Trust
R&D Lead Fran Cousins looks at how the hiring landscape has fundamentally shifted and how every touchpoint in the hiring process sends a message. In an AI-enabled world, getting that right has arguably never been more important…
Doing more with Less (and a bit of AI): Reflections from the ISE Development Conference
If there’s one thing the ISE Development Conference confirmed this year, it’s this: L&D has officially entered its “hosting a dinner party where the menu, guest list, and kitchen layout keep changing mid-meal” era. Budgets are tightening. Expectations are rising. AI is everywhere. And our learners? They’re somehow expected to be more adaptable than ever. No pressure then…
Webinar Catch Up
In the final webinar in our Spring Series, COO Cassie Sissons lead a practical and thought-provoking session on candidate experience, alongside a panel of client guests, including Rachel Hollinger, Early Careers Manager at ScottishPower and Natalia Swieca, Future Careers Recruitment Manager for Virgin Media O2.
If you missed the session, you can watch it in full below:
Case Study
Each month we shine a spotlight on a recent client project and how our solutions helped make a real difference.
ScottishPower needed to attract and recruit large volumes of early career talent across technical, operational and corporate roles. We worked closely with them to deliver an end-to-end Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) solution, supporting across assessment, candidate management and onboarding to increase scale whilst improving efficiencies.
