Better Talent Acquisition. Built for what’s next.

devlin talent is a Talent Acquisition consultancy helping organizations rethink how they attract, engage and hire people.

We work across TA strategy, transformation, technology and AI — helping teams solve real hiring problems, make better decisions about technology and build Talent Acquisition functions that actually work.

We’re not interested in transformation for transformation’s sake. And we definitely don’t believe adding AI to a broken hiring process suddenly makes it a good one.

Built on 20+ years in Talent Acquisition

devlin talent was founded by Rob Devlin, a global Talent Acquisition leader, strategist and advisor who has spent more than 20 years working across in-house, consulting and agency environments.

Rob has built and led TA teams, worked through complex transformation programs and helped organizations rethink their technology, processes and operating models across the US, UK and globally.

That experience shapes how we work today: understand the problem first, get the right people aligned around it, and then work out where process, technology and AI can genuinely make things better.

Alignment. Adoption. Alliance.

Successful TA transformation is about much more than choosing the right technology.

Our AAA Framework — Alignment, Adoption and Alliance — reflects three things we believe need to happen for transformation to stick.

Alignment — getting clear on the problem, the outcomes and what success actually looks like.

Adoption — designing change around the people who actually have to use it.

Alliance — bringing TA, HR, technology, business leaders and partners together rather than trying to transform hiring in isolation.

Because a great strategy or technology that nobody adopts isn't transformation.

Human-centered AI

AI is going to change Talent Acquisition. It already is.

But the interesting question isn't “What can we automate?”

It's “What should we automate — and where does human judgment still matter?”

Rob is a Workstream Lead with the Human-Centric AI Council - part of the work that Kyle Lagunas at Kyle & co is leading. Rob leads the work exploring how organizations can adopt AI in ways that are useful, responsible and centered on people.

That thinking increasingly shapes our work with clients — from evaluating AI and recruitment technology to redesigning processes, operating models and the experience of recruiters, hiring managers and candidates.

Our starting point is simple:

Don’t add AI to a broken hiring process. Fix the process first.

How we work

Independent.
We’re technology and vendor agnostic. The right answer depends on the problem you’re trying to solve.

Practical.
No 100-page strategy deck that sits in a drawer. The work needs to translate into something teams can actually implement.

Human-centered.
Technology should make hiring better for the people involved in it — not just make more of it automated.

Embedded.
We work alongside your team, not at arm’s length from it.

About Rob

Rob Devlin is a Talent Acquisition strategist, transformation leader, speaker and advisor with more than two decades of experience in the industry.

His work spans TA strategy and operating models, recruitment technology, AI and automation, transformation and global Talent Acquisition.

Alongside devlin talent, Rob writes and speaks about the future of Talent Acquisition, recruitment technology and human-centered AI, and works with industry communities exploring what the next generation of hiring should look like.

The future of Talent Acquisition isn't about replacing humans with technology. It's about using technology to help humans make hiring better.