Well here we are already, day one of Australia's biggest (and fastest growing) HR event is in the can. It was a huge day - awesome speakers, dancing with giant flowers over lunch-time and a buzzing exhibition zone.[caption id="attachment_9604" align="aligncenter" width="238"]
Equal parts elegant and sassy[/caption]Here's our breakdown of the key things that were getting the most chatter on the ground:
Ok, ok, maybe we're tooting our own horn a bit here but honestly, our team's doing an amazing job. If you're visiting tomorrow, swing by, let us know the values you think make you awesome at your job and have a chat to our crew about how Weirdly can improve your candidate experience and screening. If you're not at the conference, you can still join in with our cheeky custom quiz: Could YOU be Australia's Next Prime Minister? (and get a sneak peek at the kind of magic we can work on your own application process).
Chris Havrilla (Bersin Deloitte) spoke passionately about how HR teams can use design thinking frameworks to support growth. Getting clarity around the needs and problems to be solved, and using the insight and design thinking structure to support business cases for boundary-pushing innovation.
HR is becoming increasingly strategic and ever more complex. Leaders in our industry are reskilling and getting more comfortable with using data to inform and support decision-making and a number of speakers today talked about the rest of us need to follow suit. More and more tools are entering the market flooding us with opportunities to collect, connect and analyse data (*cough* includingWeirdly *cough*), it’s time to start using them in our own processes.
HR needs to take themselves out of the world of automation and into the world of relationships. Ultimately, HR and recruiting is about humans, connecting with other humans. Automation, AI, Predictive data - and every other shiny new tool or system you come across can be brilliant for our teams and workflows. At the end of the day though, we should also be challenging them to make our process feel MORE human, not less.We're pumped for day 2 tomorrow so stay tuned for the final wrap up - you might even find out if you've got a shot at the top job in Canberra. And if you can't catch the crew tomorrow but are keen to understand how Weirdly can improve your candidate experience, speed up screening and give you visibility over your diversity, book a demo with us now.
* If you're interested in reading our day two wrapup, click here.
