2026 Sessions
RecFest On-DemandContent from RecFest UK 2026
The conversation doesn’t stop when the festival ends. Dive into a selection of RecFest UK sessions packed with practical ideas, fresh perspectives, and real-world recruitment insights from some of the industry’s leading voices.
Explore the sessions, discover new thinking, and stay connected to the trends shaping talent acquisition today.
Stop Blaming the Hire: The Real Reasons Early Careers Talent Doesn’t Stay
When early careers hires leave an organisation, the first question is often whether the right hiring decision was made. But what if retention isn't...
Being a Talent Magnet: Why Your EVP is NOT Your Employer Brand
Most organisations have invested time in defining their Employee Value Proposition (EVP). But having an EVP is only part of the equation. At RecFest...
Inclusive Hiring Isn’t Broken – It Was Never Built Properly
Neurodiversity has become an increasingly important topic in talent acquisition. Yet many organisations are still working with hiring processes that...
The Strategic TA Professional: Combining AI Enablement with Human Insight
As AI becomes an increasingly important part of recruitment, the role of the talent acquisition professional is evolving alongside it. Rather than...
The Human Advantage: Winning with Talent in an AI-Driven World
As AI continues to reshape how work gets done, organisations are facing a new challenge: understanding where human capability creates the greatest...
The Future of TA: What Will We Miss Most When It’s Gone?
By 2030, sourcing, screening, scheduling and other administrative processes could look very different, with technology taking on more of the...
The Biggest Shift in Hiring for a Generation Metrics, Benchmarks and What Comes Next
How organisations measure hiring success is changing. With the introduction of the UK’s first standardised hiring metrics, talent acquisition...
Talent Acquisition Transformation: From Hiring Function to Strategic Growth Engine
As organisations navigate talent shortages, shifting skills demands and the growing influence of AI, the role of talent acquisition is changing....
Talent Acquisition as a Growth Partner: Inside Amazon’s Strategic Business Partner Model
As organisations look to strengthen the impact of talent acquisition, many are rethinking how TA works with the wider business. Moving beyond a...
I Just Saw Your Talent: Why AI Might See Signals, but Humans See Potential
As AI and data become increasingly influential in hiring, it's easy to focus on what technology can measure. But some of the most important...
From Recruiter to Talent Architect: The Evolution of the Role in an AI-Driven World
As AI becomes more deeply embedded in talent acquisition, the recruiter's role is evolving. With technology increasingly supporting tasks such as...
From Archaic to Automated: How Busy Bees Transformed Hiring Across 4,000+ Annual Hires
When you're hiring more than 4,000 people every year into compliance-critical roles, every stage of the recruitment process matters. Delays, manual...
Deploy AI in hours, not months, and drive business impact
For many organisations, deploying AI into recruitment can feel like a major transformation project - one that requires months of planning,...
10 Things We Now Know About AI in TA in 2026
If the last few years have taught talent acquisition professionals anything, it's that AI isn't a future conversation anymore; it's a present-day...
How S&P Global is using Talent Intelligence to build a connected workforce
Talent intelligence has never been more powerful…or more complicated. Organisations today have access to an unprecedented amount of workforce data....