Meetup UK - Agile Recruiter
How To Improve Recruitment Practices to Hire the Best Talent?
Online Meetup - Agile Recruiter
An inspiring and interactive session where we discuss experiences and insights from the talent recruitment industry. We want to go in-depth, exploring unconventional perspectives and solutions. What they should be, why, and how to implement them in organizations.
The commoditization of talent, or the cogwheel. Are people still needed today?
🗓 Date: 10th December 2025
🕒 Time: 17:00 – 18:00 CEST (Czech Republic, Prague)
💻 Place: Online (language 🇬🇧 English)
💰 Price: €9.68 (€8 without VAT). VAT place is the Czech Republic
Just before Christmas, I chose a lighter topic. We will look at recruitment from an HR perspective in the context of expected trends.
Probably everyone who has been looking for a job recently has encountered this. You respond to a job advertisement. And you immediately get several questions. How many years of experience do you have with XYZ? Insert any abbreviation for XYZ. And what is your daily rate?
You are invited to a first interview, usually with a human resources manager. 15 minutes. Sometimes up to 30. Two obligatory questions. Do you want to work on a self-employed basis or as a full-time employee? What is your daily rate/What are your salary expectations? Or possibly in reverse order. And that's the end of the interview. You may try to ask a question yourself, something as mundane as what the job or project is about. "We don't know," you'll find out in the Xth round, there will be someone there who knows. This is how the commoditization of talent manifests itself.
When talking to HR professionals, no one questions these practices. It seems natural to them; they've been doing it this way for decades, so why should it change? It's a historical industrial process. Is this approach adequate for overcoming the challenges of the VUCA world?
At the meetup, we will open a discussion:
- What challenges do companies expect in 2026?
- Are current recruitment and talent management practices adequate for these challenges?
- Will the cogwheel culture be important in 2026, or will the human side prevail? (Empathy, motivation, personal experience, team support, ambition, and innovation...)
- Are we looking for a long-term partnership? Or just quick and short-term help?
- What changes await HR departments? And how will this affect applicants and organizations?
- Will the commoditization of talent continue?
I invite you to join in the discussion. Let's change the way we work in recruitment!