Talent Experience Live

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159

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Aug 2026

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Join us for a weekly HR podcast covering the latest in talent experience management. We'll be talking with talent marketers, recruiters, managers, and HR professionals who are crafting remarkable experiences at every stage in the end-to-end talent journey. The Talent Experience Show is proudly produced by the team at Phenom.

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August 13, 20261 hr 1 min

Tracking Growth Where Work Happens: The Future of Skills-Based Performance

Episode Notes On this episode of Talent Experience Live, we dig into a question a lot of HR leaders are sitting with right now: not just who's performing, but what people can actually do and how fast they can grow. We're joined by Ankur Gupta of PossibleWorks to talk about what it takes to make skills visible without adding another system for employees to log into, and why traditional performance reviews weren't built to answer questions this fast-moving. The conversation lands on a bigger bet: skills, not job titles or headcount, may become the primary unit of enterprise strategy going forward.

July 30, 202636 min

AI Agents for Employees: From One-Time Profile to Living Career Story

Episode Notes On this episode of Talent Experience Live, we explore two new Phenom AI agents for the employee experience: Career Coach and Profile Builder. Most people build their profile once at onboarding, then let it go stale because they think in experiences, not structured skills. These agents close that gap. Employees describe their work in plain language, and the AI extracts the right skills and proficiencies for talent management. We show what this means for career pathing and skills strategy, plus a live look at both agents in action.

July 23, 202638 min

Data-Rich, Insight-Poor: Why Talent Organizations Can't Answer What Matters

Episode Notes On this episode of Talent Experience Live, we look at why talent organizations have more data than ever and still can't answer basic business questions in real time. TA leaders walk into executive meetings unprepared, People Analytics teams field endless one-off report requests, and hiring problems that are actually data visibility problems keep getting misdiagnosed. We get into why fragmented data leads to fragmented decision-making, why generic BI tools haven't solved it, and how Phenom X+ Talent Advisor changes that picture, turning scattered data into decisions teams can act on instead of reports they have to chase down. We also look at what shifts for a talent organization once reactive reporting gives way to proactive intelligence.

July 23, 202621 min

From Handwritten Notes to Hires: How RBC Rebuilt Its Events Strategy

Episode Notes On this episode of Talent Experience Live, we talk with Royal Bank of Canada's Gemma May, Operations Analyst, and Tonya Carroll, Director of Strategic Partnerships & Programs, about how they moved from manual trackers and handwritten notes to a structured events strategy. Our guests share how they design events that serve both early talent and experienced professionals without running separate workflows, and how personalized follow-up happens at scale. Success now comes down to two things: hires and retention.If you're a TA leader trying to move from activity to outcomes on events, this one's for you.

July 10, 202618 min

Which World Cup Team Should HR Root For?

Episode Notes ** The US is out of the World Cup, but eight teams are still alive, and each one plays like a specific HR function. France builds talent pipelines at a scale nobody else can match. Morocco converts every chance it gets. Spain won't shoot until every requirement is confirmed. Norway is banking its whole season on one transformational hire. Call it talent strategy with a scoreboard. On this episode of Talent Experience Live, we go through all eight quarterfinalists, matching each team's style to the Phenom X+ Agent that plays the same role in the hiring process. Find the team that plays like your function, and you've found your rooting interest for the rest of the tournament. **

July 2, 202633 min

The AI Deepfake Revolution: Declare Independence From Candidate Fraud

Episode Notes AI-generated resumes, deepfake video interviews, proxy candidates, duplicate applications — candidate fraud has evolved, and most recruiting teams aren't ready for the fight. In this episode of Talent Experience Live, Devin Foster and Joanna Keel are declaring independence from candidate fraud. They'll break down exactly how AI is being weaponized against the hiring pipeline, and what it takes to fight back. Stage by stage, signal by signal, they'll show you how to separate real candidates from manufactured before any "Benedict Arnolds" can infiltrate your camp. The revolution is here. Are you armed and ready?

June 12, 202627 min

$200 Billion on the Line: How AI Agents Are Helping Pharma

Episode Notes **More than $200 billion in pharma revenue is at risk from patent expirations through 2030, and TA teams are caught in the middle. Reducing legacy field forces, staffing specialty launches, and opening reshored plants often happen at the same time, on systems that weren't built for any of it. In this episode of Talent Experience Live, we break down three of the highest-pressure hiring scenarios in pharma right now and show exactly which AI agents are helping TA teams run them in parallel — without burning out their recruiters or cutting corners on compliance.**

June 1, 202643 min

Who's Really in Your Pipeline? Fighting the Fraud Epidemic in Hiring

Episode Notes Between 2025 and 2026, identity fraud detection jumped from a non-issue to a top-five priority for CHROs — a signal that hiring risk has changed in ways most organizations aren't prepared for. In this episode of Talent Experience Live, Amit Fernandes from Checkr, Inc. breaks down the three core types of hiring fraud: interview fraud, identity-related fraud, and candidate misrepresentation, and why siloed hiring systems are making each one harder to catch. With nearly 70% of HR leaders lacking confidence in preventing fraud, this conversation covers what it takes to build a hiring process where trust is designed in, not assumed.

May 21, 202632 min

Metrics That Matter: The New Language of Recruitment Marketing

Episode Notes Measuring the impact of recruitment marketing has never been more complex or more consequential. In this episode of Talent Experience Live, Grant Smith, Global Recruitment Marketing Specialist at TD SYNNEX, breaks down the metrics that actually matter: from the numbers talent marketers track daily to the ROI story executives need to see. We also dig into what it takes to connect marketing activity to hire quality, enter new markets without an established brand footprint, and meet the personalization bar candidates expect today — including where most teams fall short.

May 14, 2026Episode 2726 min

S233E27 - From Experimentation to Execution: SASR’s AI Maturity Journey

Episode Notes AI adoption in talent acquisition is easy to talk about. True AI maturity is something else entirely. In this episode of Talent Experience Live, SASR Workforce Solutions joins us to unpack their evolution from early automation to a more advanced, applied AI strategy that’s driving measurable hiring outcomes and elevating the candidate experience. Bradley Cooper, Jason Effinger, and Brendan Easlick share what sparked the shift, the inflection points that accelerated progress, and how they turned experimentation into scalable impact. Now pushing into voice agents and deeper AI integration, SASR is focused on scaling intelligently, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring recruiter buy-in every step of the way. We explore how they’re measuring success, overcoming internal resistance, and building a culture that sees AI as an amplifier, not a threat. If you’re looking to move beyond surface-level AI adoption and toward real organizational maturity, this conversation offers a practical blueprint for what it takes to get there.