Blair Bennett, PepsiCo Senior Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition and speaker at SPARK TALENT 2025, recently shared with HR Daily Advisor what it takes to build a world-class candidate experience on a global scale.
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As companies begin settling into this new workforce with AI, we’re seeing the rise of AI Agents more and more. But for many that begs the question: What are AI Agents really, and how can they help your business? Today, we’re joined by Cassie Colton, AI for HR and Senior People Science Lead at Owens […]
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At SPARK TALENT, Sue Lam, VP of Global People Analytics at The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC), laid out the strategy for HR to shift from a fragmented, reactive function to a strategic business driver. She shared how TCCC transformed from 32 fragmented business units into a “networked organization.” The key was simple: HR dropped the reactive support role and […]
If Day Two of SPARK TALENT gave us one clear takeaway, it’s that the future of HR is less about managing processes and more about becoming architects of organizational change and talent scouting. Our keynotes from Ross Sparkman, Bertrand Dussert, and Blair Bennett’s hot session, didn’t just talk theory; they handed us a three-part playbook for […]
Day One of the SPARK TALENT 2025 conference delivered a unified mandate to HR and Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders: the reactive, service-provider model is obsolete. Success requires you to stop being an “order-taker” and become an “architect of the workforce.” Three powerful sessions defined the essential shifts necessary to make that change. 1. The Strategic […]
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Blair Bennett, PepsiCo Senior Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition and speaker at SPARK TALENT 2025, recently shared with HR Daily Advisor what it takes to build a world-class candidate experience on a global scale.
As companies begin settling into this new workforce with AI, we’re seeing the rise of AI Agents more and more. But for many that begs the question: What are AI Agents really, and how can they help your business? Today, we’re joined by Cassie Colton, AI for HR and Senior People Science Lead at Owens […]
According to a CNBC article, since the start of 2024, over 2.2 million job openings have remained unfilled, outnumbering actual hires. The reason? Sinister “ghost jobs,” or opportunities posted with no intention to actually fill them, so that companies may artificially inflate their appeared growth. These ghost jobs cloud labor statistics, wastes time for job […]