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About this Event
Date 01/05/2025 @ 9:15 AM - 1:30 PM BST
Venue / Location The Athenaeum Hotel & Residences
Free
The civil service and local government operate in a uniquely high-scrutiny environment, facing distinct hiring challenges. The sheer scale of these organisations makes adopting new resourcing practices complex, while increasing financial pressures on public spending demand substantial efficiency gains.
What to Expect
This interactive workshop combines expert keynotes, roundtable discussions, and peer-led panels, tackling sector-specific challenges alongside broader industry trends.
Key Themes & Topics
- Shaping the future of public sector hiring – Market trends and AI adoption, featuring insights from Indeed
- Employer Brand and EVP – Making your organisation a talent magnet to build a tech-savvy, skills-driven, multigenerational workforce
- Overcoming hiring barriers – to ensure the best external and internal candidates succeed.
- The Future of TA and Resourcing – Preparing for increasing automation, skills-based hiring, and workforce transformation
This event is invitation-only, complimentary for senior HR and TA leaders within the Civil Service and Local Government.

Agenda
- 09:30 - 09:40 Welcome and Market Insights from TALiNT Partners
- 09:40 - 10:00 Keynote: Matt Burney, Senior Strategic Advisor, Indeed How can AI and automation enhance hiring while maintaining an ethical, human approach? And, where do you even start?
- 10:00 - 10:25 Roundtable Discussion 1 How can the sector adopt AI in its hiring processes that balances doing it in the right way and at pace?
- 10:25 - 10:45 Open Q&A Fixing hiring processes to remove barriers to hiring the best candidates
- 10:45 - 11:00 Refreshment break
- 11:00 - 11:15 Employer Brand & EVP Strategy - Declan Slattery Setting the context
- 11:15 - 11:40 Roundtable Discussion 2 Leveraging your Employer Brand and EVP to beat private sector competition and attract multi-generational, highly-skilled scarce talent
- 11:40 - 12:00 Panel Q&A Evolving role of the TA function in context of increasing automation and AI
- 12:00 - 12:25 Round Table Discussion 3
- 12:25 - 12:45 Closing Panel: Reflections and Priorities for 2025
- 12:45 - 13:30 Buffet lunch and networking
Speakers
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Matt Burney Indeed Senior Strategic Advisor -
Christine Brotherston TALiNT Partners HR and Operations Director -
Declan Slattery TALiNT Partners Head of Employer Programme and Chair of Global Advisory Board