The Leading Community: Future‑Proofing Recruitment & Creating Positive Career Transitions
In our modern world of work the recruitment process many candidates experience can be seen as a broader view of organisational health. In Ireland, nearly six in ten career transitioners say they would refuse a job offer after a negative recruitment experience, citing lengthy delays, disorganised processes, or discrimination. Source: irishtechnews.ie, siliconrepublic.com.
This January join the Leading Community as we:
- Explore the recruitment experience, from candidate frustrations to algorithmic bias.
- Spotlight AI, with its transformative power and potential blind spots in talent selection we will explore why people will always be needed within the recruitment process.
- Empower leaders: as we discuss how to build recruitment, onboarding, and career-transition strategies that are inclusive, aspirational, and future-ready.
We’ll tackle key questions such as:
Who is unintentionally excluded by AI-driven recruitment?
What defines a truly great recruitment experience?
How can organisations support individuals navigating career transitions and prevent junior talent pipelines from drying up as roles evolve?
Featuring insights from Irish talent experts and a panel exploring how to “make recruitment suck less”, this event offers leaders, HR professionals, recruiters, coaches, and individual contributors practical, hope‑filled solutions for the workforce of tomorrow.
Speakers:
Michelle McDaid – The Leading Place
“Broadening the Talent Pool: Practical Hiring Lessons From Tech That Translate Across Sectors”
A 25-minute practical masterclass for leaders, sharing hiring approaches from tech that have led to tangible improvements in gender representation with lessons that also strengthen inclusion across other dimensions of diversity, and translate to any sector.
Lindsay Brady – The Big Life Project
Career Fear – The best talent is hiding in plain sight.
Career Fear – The best talent is hiding in plain sight. The most talented people are not thriving in their careers today, either hiding in their current role or struggling to find a job to match their abilities. In a world of playing it safe, we need more people to stand out, be authentic and lean into their talents, and yet, the opposite is happening.
With her coaching client base & professional experience, Lindsay will share her observations from the job market and will also propose some tips and perspectives for how we can all support and elevate those ready to make a big, bold career transitions.
Panel Discussion with Geri Pollack – Morgan McKinley Recruitment and our panellists:
Liz Joseph – Harvard Graduate, ex-Meta, Data Scientist & Founder, on human-first recruitment in an AI-driven world.
Lucas Colucci – Product Leader, sharing executive-level insights on scaling teams, and what feedback should look like when recruiting for senior level positions.
Details:
12:00 – 12:30: Tea, Coffee, light lunch and networking
12:30 – 12:45 Welcome/Intros by Sara Mullally, Network Manager, Sustainable HRM Skillnet & Samuel Hendry, Morgan McKinley.
12:45 – 13:10: Broadening the talent pool (practical steps leaders can take) – Michelle McDaid, Founder The Leading Place.
1:10 – 1:35 Career Fear – The best talent is hiding in plain sight. a talk about supporting career transitions by Lindsay Brady, Founder, The Big Life Project.
1:35 – 2:00pm Panel discussion led by Geri Pollack discussing how to improve the recruitment process.
2:00pm – 2:30pm Networking
2:30pm – Close
Venue: Morgan McKinley, Dublin