The Global Talent Podcast (GPT) is the monthly show where Dr. Charles Handler and Bas van de Haterd look at the developments in the world of talent. Dr. Charles Handler is from New Orleans USA, has a PhD in organisational psychology and is an independent advisor on implementing selection strategies. Bas van de Haterd is from Soest (near Utrecht), The Netherlands, is a marketeer by trade but is self thought assessment expert. Runs the biggest Dutch corporate TA event, a network of Dutch TA leaders and is an advisor on selection strategies as well as corporate careers websites.
This is a discussion between Bas van de Haterd and Dr. Charles Handler on the global perspective on talent. The two discuss recent developments in the talent acquisition industry, particularly focusing on Workday's acquisitions, the rise of AI agents, and Open AI's plans to enter the job market.
The three topics we discuss:
Workday Acquisitions and AI Agents and how this will impact Workday as a company, but also the implications of TA Technology in general.
http://bit.ly/4pV7xQy
https://bit.ly/491KoWJ
https://bit.ly/3MT8Vo4
Open AI Entering the Job Market in combination with Emploi's Recruiter Nation Research that states lots of TA leaders are thinking about the TA tech stack.
https://bit.ly/4psYO7f
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/openai-announces-ai-powered-hiring-platform-to-take-on-linkedin/
And thirdly a Dutch Labor Law Case Study, where a woman worked three full time jobs and called in sick on one of them, still collection pay.
https://bit.ly/4qnP8LQ
11 Sept 2023
81 Augstus Monthly wrap-up (The European north discovered heath)
In this episode Bas, Matthias and Oana discuss the month of August in the European TA landscape.
We start talking about the weather and how that is changing the preferred location to work. The European North has discovered... heath...
And we talk about adapting to a warmer world based on this article:
https://laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/what-future-of-work-in-a-warmer-world (https://laetitiaatwork.substack.com/p/what-future-of-work-in-a-warmer-world)
We talk about leadership and growing to leadership positions in Talent Acquisition based on Linkedin data:
https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/learning-and-development/want-to-be-a-talent-leader-heres-how-600000-others-got-there (https://www.linkedin.com/business/talent/blog/learning-and-development/want-to-be-a-talent-leader-heres-how-600000-others-got-there)
We talk about the European Start up scene based on research by Marq:
https://pubsecure.marq.com/adc1b9f6-c29c-4ab4-aed2-a3c8f11bd10b/document.pdf (https://pubsecure.marq.com/adc1b9f6-c29c-4ab4-aed2-a3c8f11bd10b/document.pdf)
We talk about Skills hiring, TikTok's investment in this, Coors Miller's sort of move to this
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0809/1398756-tiktok-sets-up-digital-upskilling-fund-for-young-people/ (https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0809/1398756-tiktok-sets-up-digital-upskilling-fund-for-young-people/)
https://www.ere.net/articles/parent-company-of-coors-and-miller-abolishes-the-cv-sort-of (https://www.ere.net/articles/parent-company-of-coors-and-miller-abolishes-the-cv-sort-of)
And we talk about an exit for an assessment company that was expected and unexpected and why that was the case.
https://www.recruitmenttech.nl/2023/08/24/main-capital-verkoopt-meerderheidsbelang-assessio-aan-britse-investeringsgroep/ (https://www.recruitmenttech.nl/2023/08/24/main-capital-verkoopt-meerderheidsbelang-assessio-aan-britse-investeringsgroep/)
4 Sept 2023
Case study: Improving Quality of Hire at Air Traffic Control
In this case study narrator Bas van de Haterd tells you the case of hiring air traffic controllers and how they got to 160% increase in quality of hire, while lowering their requirements on education.
By using technology to test all applicants they were able to better select candidates and they learned that educational success had very limited correlation with the qualities you needed to have to become a great air traffic controller.
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