Talent Trends

Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash AI may change the work people do, but human capabilities will determine whether organisations can adapt, collaborate and grow. For years, Employer Branding has competed on culture. Great place to work. Inclusive environment. People-first values. These are not wrong things to say. But they are no longer enough to prove. The next advantage will come from showing that your organisation helps people stay capable and employable as work changes. I

We need to learn how to disagree again. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash All the ongoing online conversations in India lately have led me to think about what people disagree on and a lot more about how we disagree. Somewhere along the way, disagreement became something to win rather than something to learn from. We seem to have blurred the line between challenging an idea and rejecting the person behind it. - Different opinions are interpreted as disrespect. - Questioning i

Photo by omid armin on Unsplash Last December, I did what half the internet did. I opened Spotify Wrapped. Within seconds, it told me my top artist, my most-played song, my total minutes listened, and a slightly embarrassing "listener personality" I did not ask for. It knew I had replayed the same three songs on loop during a stressful week in October. I hadn't noticed that pattern in myself. Spotify had. I didn't search for any of this. I didn't fill out a form or browse a

The talent market looks calmer on the surface. Application volumes are up in many segments, layoffs are making headlines, and the fevered hiring conditions of 2021 and 2022 feel like a different era. It would be easy to read this as breathing room. It isn't. Underneath the surface, five forces are permanently reshaping how people choose where to work, and most employer brands are still built for a market that no longer exists. The research is unambiguous. Organisations that u

For decades, the employer-employee relationship rested on a quiet promise: join us, work hard, climb the ladder, build a career. Organisations built their employer brands around that promise. Stability. Tenure. Loyalty. The long game. That model is quietly breaking down. According to the 2026 Randstad Workmonitor report, only 41% of employees still want a traditional linear career path. More than half the workforce has already moved on from the idea of a single, predictable t