The TechWolf Podcast
The TechWolf Podcast
Podcast Description
Technology in HR is booming, yet confusing.
Many vendors claim to include AI (agents), skills, seamless integrations, and other technologies in their product offerings.
In practice, product promises often differ from reality.
In this podcast, our host, Julius Schelstraete, holds no-nonsense conversations with business practitioners and thought leaders on everything related to "the skills-based organization": what it is, whether it's realistic, typical roadblocks, real-life use cases, and more.
Join us as we move beyond the hype and examine skills-based HR from a critical, realistic lens!
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Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes surrounding the evolution of HR into skills-based organizations, addressing topics such as the practical hurdles organizations face, the critical role of skills data, and the balance between strategy and technology. Episodes include discussions on whether all organizations should adopt a skills-based approach, real-world examples from EPAM Systems, and strategies for gaining business buy-in for skills initiatives.
Technology in HR is booming, yet confusing.
Many vendors claim to include AI (agents), skills, seamless integrations, and other technologies in their product offerings.
In practice, product promises often differ from reality.
In this podcast, our host, Julius Schelstraete, holds no-nonsense conversations with business practitioners and thought leaders on everything related to “the skills-based organization”: what it is, whether it’s realistic, typical roadblocks, real-life use cases, and more.
Join us as we move beyond the hype and examine skills-based HR from a critical, realistic lens!
The AI bills are arriving, and some companies are already asking who should lose access. Meanwhile, the headlines say AI is wiping out entry-level jobs, and the labor data says otherwise.
Susan Youngblood, a former CHRO who rolled out AI across a 9,000-person customer service organization, separates what is happening from what is being reported. She also explains why HR leaders who wait to be invited into the AI conversation will be cleaning up its consequences instead.
Timestamps:
- 03:10; How progressive companies redesign entry-level roles for AI-fluent hires
- 04:32; The hiring data the media keeps getting wrong
- 05:56; What separates companies pulling ahead on AI from those stuck in pilots
- 07:51; Two questions that expose fake AI adoption
- 09:31; The token bill arrives: who keeps AI access, and who loses it
- 13:10; Every agent needs a named human owner
- 15:22; What rolling out AI to 9,000 people taught her about HR’s real job
- 19:17; When the CFO asks if a human is cheaper than an agent
- 23:30; Her prediction: token budgets in your comp package
- 25:02; AI whitewashing and the layoffs that weren’t about AI
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