BETTER
QUESTIONS.
BETTER HIRING.
Practical, provocative conversations about Talent Acquisition transformation, technology and human-centred AI. Grounded in the work of making change happen.
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Ideas from the work itself.
Avature Upfront US / Phoenix / 2026The 3 A’s of Avature
Alignment. Adoption. Alliance. Rob’s main-stage session explored how to turn TA technology investment into change that lasts—connecting business priorities, user behaviour and partnership.
ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit / San Diego / 2026Before You Buy AI
A practical challenge to the rush to automate: understand the problem, redesign the work and decide where human judgement matters before adding another tool.
Award-winning work.
Shared with the industry.
Synopsys won the 2026 Avature Award for Best Use Case of AI & Automation. Rob shared lessons from the transformation at Avature Upfront, drawing on his work leading the global TA technology programme.
On the record.
Deciding What Not to Automate in Hiring
Human agency, organisational readiness and the choices that shape a better hiring experience.
Listen to the episode ↗Why Intake Is TA’s Best AI Shop Window for TA Recruiters
Where to begin with AI, how to demonstrate value and what recruiters can do with the time they get back.
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Avature / Dmitri Boylan / Recorded at Upfront 2026A conversation with Dmitri
Rob joined Avature’s co-founder and CEO Dmitri Boylan for a recorded podcast conversation at Avature Upfront.
Behind the scenes / Avature UpfrontSharing the lessons.
Bringing the practical experience of TA transformation into industry conversations, interviews and filmed perspectives.
Stop Adding AI to
Broken Hiring Processes.
Rob’s ERE article examines why process design, stakeholder alignment and adoption need to come before automation.
Read the article on ERE ↗Human-centred AI, in practice.
As Case Studies Workstream Lead for Kyle & Co’s Human-Centric AI Council, Rob is helping bring practitioner experiences into the discussion about responsible AI adoption.
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