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Welcome to the May edition of The Talent Digest. Inside, you’ll find practical insights, fresh thinking, and real‑world examples to help you make better hiring decisions, faster, while still putting people at the heart of the process.
Upcoming Webinars
Wed 13th May (12.30pm) – Designing AI-Era Assessments That Candidates Trust 🖥️
Join Martin Kavanagh, Head of Assessment, and Fran Cousans, R&D Lead, for a practical walk‑through of Amberjack’s new AI Skills Assessment – a realistic, work-relevant, future-proofed approach to understanding how candidates collaborate with AI in the contexts they’ll actually face in the changing world of work.
This session will explore:
✅ Why “AI avoidance” through deter and detect in assessment is falling behind and what “human‑led AI use” looks like in practice
✅ How our new assessment measures core AI‑era capabilities whilst also assessing the behaviours which make up Amberjack’s Future Skills Model
✅ The thought and care that has gone into creating a consumer-grade candidate experience
✅ How we have designed for fairness and predictive power, staying true to the Amberjack ethos of assessing for potential
Wednesday 3rd June (1pm): Evolving Candidate Experience: From Automation to Authentic Connection 🖥️
Cassie Sissons leads a practical and thought-provoking session on candidate experience, alongside a panel of client guests, including:
Rachel Hollinger – Early Careers Manager – Scottish Power
Natalia Swieca – Future Careers Recruitment Manager – Virgin Media O2
Morgan Fong – Early Careers Programme Manager – BII
Together, they’ll be covering:
✅ Why candidate experience is more critical than ever in an AI-enabled world
✅ How to balance efficiency and automation with authenticity
✅ What “human-first” hiring looks like in modern Early Careers programmes
✅ Practical ways to enhance engagement without adding pressure to your team
If you’re responsible for Early Careers, candidate experience, or talent acquisition strategy, and want to ensure your approach stands out in an increasingly automated market, this session is for you.
The Talent Download Podcast
In the latest episode of The Talent Download podcast, host Darren Lancaster sat down with Clare Power & Katryna Smyth of Police Now to explore how policing recruitment is being reshaped from the ground up and why 50% of their candidates had never even considered the role before.
You can also watch the episode in full here:
Case Study
Each month we shine a spotlight on a recent client project and how our solutions helpedmake a real difference.
See how Colt Technology Services partnered with Amberjack to deliver a scalable, end‑to‑end early careers recruitment model across Europe – engaging more candidates, improving experience, and hiring consistently at scale.
Latest Insights
Why Early Careers Just Became Business Critical
Succession planning has traditionally focused on identifying and developing a relatively small group of high‑potential individuals already embedded within the organisation. That approach no longer works. The pace of change, accelerating retirement cliffs, persistent skills scarcity and flatter organisational structures have fundamentally altered what “ready‑now” leadership looks like.
Vicky Raper and Renee Burn look at why an coherent early-years strategy has gone from a ‘nice to have’ to a critical succession lever.
