These are turbulent times for talent acquisition, particularly for those teams operating in the technology sector. Despite the continuing demand for technology skills, layoffs are still happening, with many TA teams now considerably downsized from where they were a couple of years ago.\n\nProving TA's strategic and monetary value has never been more critical, so how can TA leaders make their business case against such a challenging backdrop?\n\nMy guest this week is Sam Bethoud, VP of Talent Solutions at hackajob. Sam combines his experience working with a vast number of talent acquisition leaders with hackajob's huge dataset to provide some excellent insights into the tech recruiting market and highly actionable advice on tactics TA can employ to prove the scale of its value to the business.\n\nIn the interview, we discuss:\n\nThe current state of the tech recruiting market\n\nTA's commercial impact\n\nHow does TA create measurable monetary value?\n\nThe importance of data\n\nHow else can TA be strategic?\n\nChanging job seeker behaviour\n\nWhat impact will AI have on the future?\n\nFollow this podcast on Apple Podcasts.