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Talent Acquisition Trends to Watch in 2026

Talent Acquisition faces a challenging landscape approaching 2026, marked by economic stagnation and evolving hiring practices. With a focus on mission-critical hires, companies will prioritize experience over potential. Automation, redefined as “agentic AI,” will streamline processes, while an emphasis on measurable outcomes will reshape TA’s role, aligning it more closely with business objectives.

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Buzzwords in Recruiting: A Survival Guide for 2026

Every year, a new batch of noxious “talent transformation” phrases (like “talent transformation”) shows up to make hiring sound like quantum mechanics when it’s really just matching résumés to job descriptions written by people who’ve never done the work they’re hiring for.

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Unplugged: Insights from a Decade of RecFest

There aren’t a ton of events that put the needs of practitioners over the needs of the sponsors first, or who focus more on building a meaningful community that’s more than a mailing list,

Fortunately, though, there’s RecFest, one of the highlights of the overcrowded conference calendar year.

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Spin Cycle: How Recessions Reshape Talent Acquisition Strategies

If the last recession taught us anything, it’s that recruiting is the first to get cut and the last to get forgiven. But it also taught us that recruiting is not only resilient, it’s also down times that determine who wins (and loses) top talent when the next upswing occurs.

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Analytics Anonymous: The 7 Steps to Talent Intelligence Transformation

Let’s talk about the real reason your hiring strategy isn’t working.

It’s because you have no idea what’s actually happening in your funnel, and worse, you’ve built an entire process on data you don’t even trust (or in many cases, even capture). That’s where talent intelligence comes in.

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