Edan Haddock - Total Talent 🇦🇺

About Edan Haddock - Total Talent 🇦🇺

Raw, unfiltered insight from inside talent acquisition and talent management. No guests. No sponsors. No agenda. Each week Edan Haddock, Head of Talent and People Experience at Movember, shares honest reflections from the front line of talent. Straight from the tools, for the people who live it every day. Episodes tackle the things the conference circuit tends to avoid: why skills-based hiring stalled, how to build a talent tech stack without the vendor gloss, what design thinking actually does for a hiring brief, why "do more with less" is a myth worth dismantling, and whether Australian talent acquisition still asks permission to belong in the global conversation. This is an independent, practitioner-led show. Nothing here is sold, sponsored or ghost-written. If you work in talent and want an unvarnished view from someone still doing the job, start anywhere.

Publisher

Edan Haddock

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Aug 2025

Latest episode

2 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 44 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Oct 2026

   When Networking Becomes Noise

   Host Edan Haddock explores how overwhelming LinkedIn inboxes diminish genuine professional connections and seeks solutions for navigating the digital noise.

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Can You Boycott AI and Still Have a Career?

   Host Edan Haddock interviews industry experts on whether boycotting AI is a viable career strategy amidst its growing integration.

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   When the World Stops: The Capacity Problem Talent Has Normalised

   Edan Haddock explores how talent teams manage overwhelming workloads when key personnel are unexpectedly absent, questioning if AI truly creates capacity.

Inside a recent episode

I Don’t Want a Promotion: Have We Completely Misunderstood Ambition?

Published 28 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Do we need to create a development plan? It's really fascinating. Because the employee might actually be saying, no, I'm good. I love what I do. I want to get better at this. I want to become exceptional at this. I want to work on interesting things. I want to work with people I respect. I want enough money to live the life I want. And I certainly don't want to manage 17 people and spend my Tuesday approving leave requests. Now, that isn't a lack of ambition. That's clarity. And I think we have confused ambition with hierarchy. Those are not the same thing. So let's think about ambition differently. […]

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