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HIRING, REBUILT · EPISODE 2

Bigger job, or no job?

Friday, October 23, 2026 · 14:00 CEST

Duration: 60 minutes

Location: Online

About this episode

Hiring, Rebuilt is an eight-part series with Hung Lee of Recruiting Brainfood and Oliver Vaage from Alva Labs. A new episode every two weeks.

Does AI make talent acquisition genuinely strategic, or just more administrative? That is what this episode puts to Rt Hon Chloe Smith, President of the CIPD.

Chloe has watched what happens to a job category under technological pressure, from inside government. She has held a national technology brief and sat across from a labour market under strain, which is a different vantage point from anyone else in the series.

The working answer we put to her: nobody gets handed the bigger job. You earn it by being able to stand behind the decisions.

Speakers

Hung Lee

Curator

Hung Lee is the Editor of leading industry newsletter Recruiting Brainfood

He is an industry professional with over 20 years experience as an agency recruiter, Recruitment manager, Internal Head of Talent, recruitment trainer, award winning recruitment tech founder and, and now Editor and Community builder at Recruiting Brainfood

Oliver Vaage

Chief Revenue Officer, Alva Labs

Oliver works with HR and TA leaders on modernising the hiring operating model, using AI responsibly, and moving recruiters away from admin toward strategic work. He co-hosts every episode of Hiring, Rebuilt, brings Alva's point of view into the conversation, and is happy to be told he is wrong.

Rt Hon Chloe Smith

President of the CIPD

Chloe Smith is President of the CIPD. She has watched what happens to a job category under technological pressure, from inside government.