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Independent advice and hands-on leadership for Talent Acquisition teams navigating strategy, technology and an AI-enabled future.
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A clearer direction.
A practical way forward.
You may have a new platform, an ambitious AI roadmap or a hiring function that needs to work differently. The challenge is connecting the investment to how people actually work—and to the outcomes the business needs.
Rob works with TA and HR leaders to diagnose what’s getting in the way, align the right people and turn a strategy into a programme that teams can deliver and adopt.
Advice. Leadership. Delivery.
TA transformation diagnostic
A focused review of your operating model, hiring processes, technology and user experience. Identify the real friction, establish priorities and build an actionable roadmap.
- Stakeholder and user discovery
- Process and technology assessment
- Prioritised opportunities and next steps
Fractional transformation leadership
Experienced leadership embedded alongside your team. Connect workstreams, manage decisions and keep the programme moving from ambition to delivery.
- Programme direction and governance
- Executive and stakeholder alignment
- Delivery planning and vendor partnership
Implementation & adoption
Bridge the gap between a platform going live and people using it well. Design the process, enable the users and build the feedback loops that support improvement.
- Workflow and candidate journey redesign
- Recruiter and hiring manager enablement
- Adoption, measurement and optimisation
Executive & AI advisory
An independent sounding board for leaders making decisions about TA strategy, technology investment and responsible AI adoption.
- AI use-case prioritisation and readiness
- Business cases and technology choices
- Steering group and leadership support
Alignment.
Adoption.
Alliance.
Agree what needs to change and why. Design for the people doing the work. Build the partnerships needed to make it happen.
The AAA approach brings business priorities, user behaviour and delivery partners into the same conversation—from diagnosis through to continuous improvement.
Built in the real world.
Rob Devlin has led Talent Acquisition teams and transformation programmes across the UK, Europe and the US, including senior TA leadership at mydentist and Smile Brands, and global TA technology programme leadership at Synopsys.
Strategy through to adoption.
Experience spanning operating models, employer brand, CRM and sourcing, candidate journeys, assessment, onboarding and enterprise TA technology.
Practice shared openly.
Speaker at Avature Upfront and ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit. Published by ERE, with podcast appearances on Recruiting Future and SocialTalent’s Hiring Excellence.
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