Key Takeaways

1. TA isn't downstream of strategy - it is strategy.

The product vision shapes everything: the skills prioritised, the roles created, the talent profiles pursued. When TA stays close to where the product is heading, hiring stops being reactive and starts shaping the business's growth.

2. Adoption is the real AI challenge, not the tools.

With new models emerging constantly, AI strategies quickly become outdated. While personal AI adoption is high, company-wide adoption still lags behind, making change management and team enablement more important than tooling itself.

3. Are we raising a generation of prompters?

If recruiters rely on AI before developing strong judgment, we risk creating operators who can generate output but can’t critically assess it. The teams getting this right are investing in both experimentation and human judgment.