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Join us at the Talent Attraction Conference 2025 and experience an event that's bigger and better than ever before.
We're expanding the scope of our Employer Branding Conference to bring you a more holistic event. With a broader range of topics and more in-depth sessions, #IHRTA25 is designed to address all aspects of talent attraction, ensuring you gain a well-rounded understanding of the field.
This new conference format will offer broader perspectives and deliver greater value for every attendee. With a blend of expert-led sessions and roundtable discussions, you'll leave with a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies you can implement immediately.
Premium Members can unlock FREE tickets (worth £295) using their Membership ID (found in My Account) as the promo code at registration.
Speaker Topics
Employer Branding
Crafting a compelling employer brand that resonates with potential candidates
Job advertising
The latest techniques and platforms for job advertising
Career sites
Engaging career pages that provide a seamless candidate experience
Talent attraction
Attracting, engaging, and retaining top talent in a competitive market
Agenda
11 June 2025
What do Channel 4, BT, and Radical Recruitment have in common? They’ve all shared powerful, practical insights on how to revolutionise talent attraction—straight from The View podcast. In this session, Neil shares the most unmissable learnings from the first 15 episodes, packed with fresh perspectives on diversity, authenticity, and rethinking traditional hiring methods.
What to expect:
- Real-world strategies for attracting diverse talent and hiring from marginalised communities, with lessons from Channel 4, Bridge of Hope, and Radical Recruitment.
- The case for ditching CVs: how companies like Willo and Arctic Shores are unlocking hidden potential by challenging outdated norms.
- How BT and Card Factory maintain attraction quality at scale—through purpose-led branding, EVP, and authentic storytelling.
A compelling EVP can reduce cost-per-hire by up to 50%—but only if it’s built on truth, not trend. In this session, you’ll discover how to develop an employer brand that stands out, resonates deeply, and drives measurable results. From putting human insight at the centre to activating your people as brand ambassadors, this seminar is packed with practical strategies to turn your EVP into a high-impact business asset.
What to expect:
- How to develop a stand-out and authentic EVP & EB with human insight at the heart of it
- How to get your people and effective social media campaigns to help launch land and live the EVP, becoming ambassadors
- Using EVP to create effective TA campaigns that help recruit the hardest to reach talent and reduce hiring costs, having a massive bottom line effect on the business.
Bad hires are costly, but great hiring doesn’t have to be. In a world of tight budgets and high expectations, making the right talent decisions is more critical than ever. In this session, Sian Wilson and Jade Lidgett from DayOne reveal how to sharpen your hiring practices, eliminate bias, and focus on what really matters - without wasting time or money.
What to expect:
- How to identify the right skills for the role and future-proof your talent strategy.
- Practical ways to reduce bias and make fair, effective hiring decisions.
- A smarter approach to managing time, cost, and risk throughout the hiring process.
81% of CEOs say talent is their biggest growth driver - yet employer brand often struggles to get the investment it deserves. In a tough economy, it’s not just about having a great vision—it’s about proving the impact. In this session, David Macfarlane, Head of Employer Brand & Insight at TMP Worldwide, reveals how to build an EVP that’s both future-ready and backed by data leaders can’t ignore.
What to expect:
- How to design a flexible EVP that supports long-term goals and drives organisational change.
- Techniques to ensure your employer brand resonates across diverse roles, cultures, and geographies.
- Tools, metrics, and case studies to help you measure and demonstrate ROI to secure senior buy-in.
In an unpredictable market, fixed hiring strategies just don’t cut it. With hiring demands swinging between freeze and frenzy, talent acquisition leaders need adaptable solutions that deliver results without locking them into rigid contracts. This session reveals how AI-driven programmatic job advertising is helping organisations—from healthcare to housing—scale smarter, stay agile, and hire quality talent at volume.
What to expect:
- How AI-powered campaign technology flexibly manages budgets and hiring surges—without manual oversight.
- Why programmatic advertising outperforms traditional job board deals for volume hiring in uncertain markets.
- Real-world insights from Veritone Hire and Notting Hill Genesis on balancing quality, scale, and budget.
Top employers aren’t just attracting talent—they’re targeting it with precision. As competition for candidates intensifies, data-driven programmatic advertising and personalised outreach are becoming essential to stand out. In this session, Victoria Hyland from We Are Arms reveals how global brands are combining automation with human insight to achieve world-class hiring results.
What to expect:
- How programmatic advertising is revolutionising the way organisations attract talent through data and automation.
- Why personalisation at scale is the secret weapon for engaging and converting top candidates.
- Real-world examples of how global employers are using programmatic tools to drive precision and performance in talent attraction.
What does it really take to build a workplace that earns the title of the UK’s best? In this session, Stephanie Morris, Talent Acquisition Director at Cooper Parry, reveals the bold cultural shifts and talent strategies behind their award-winning success. Learn how a fearless approach to culture transformed attraction, elevated the employer brand, and kept TA driving innovation.
What to expect:
- What an award-winning workplace really looks like from the inside
- How a bold culture journey transformed our talent attraction strategy
- How to keep TA innovating, evolving and winning
Speakers
Networking opportunities
Expert guidance
Learn from industry-leaders from world-class organisations
Strategic roundtable discussions
Strategic roundtable discussions
Hear from your peers on their successes, challenges and changes within TA
Unrivalled speaker content
Be inspired by success stories from talent professionals from tech, healthcare and retail industries
Best practice sharing
Best practice sharing
Hear from your peers on their best practices
Offers, goodies and competitions
Pick up some treats for your team and be in with the chance to win big prizes
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Previous attendees
“It has been absolutely brilliant working with you and I think what you're doing for recruitment and the events industry as a whole is highly commendable.”
“I felt the conference was really good with some great sessions throughout the day. Certainly some pointers and tips I’ve taken away from this.”
“Great insights to a new processes being launched. Good to be able to see another company of similar size go through a transformational change with success.”
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Venue
Congress Centre, London
0203 916 5025
The Congress Conference Centre is in a fantastic location in the heart of London’s West End, just three minutes’ walk from Tottenham Court Road Underground Station and a short walk from Oxford Street, Covent Garden and theatre land.
The conference venue benefits from excellent transport links by tube (direct to Euston, Charing Cross, Waterloo and Liverpool Street mainline stations), and has two public car parks in the immediate vicinity located in Great Russell Street and Museum Street, as well as metered on-street parking. Cycle racks are available for those preferring to arrive on two wheels, and a ‘Boris Bikes’ Docking Station is conveniently located in Great Russell Street.
Julie is known for unearthing the true insights and harsh realities, that are the foundation of our employer brand work. With over 25 years’ experience as a strategic communications expert, Julie has worked with brands such as BT, Workday, American Airlines, GE, Google, and Aldi.
She led the strategy work on our multi-award-winning employer brand and careers website project for GVC, the world’s biggest sports gaming company. She is a knowledgeable and captivating speaker, always insightful and inspiring.
An HR and Talent Management leader with 20 years of experience, Jon brings strong international expertise and a proven track record in managing change and leading diverse teams.
He is proud to be part of Nationwide’s transformation journey, helping evolve the Society from a traditional financial services retail player into a true multi-channel organisation through technology and innovation. He holds responsibility for resourcing delivery across all customer-facing areas of the Society, as well as Technology and Transformation—central to Nationwide’s ongoing evolution.Working alongside exceptional colleagues in an organisation driven by heartfelt values and a genuine commitment to society makes this role a truly rewarding opportunity.
Victoria brings strong leadership and technical expertise in global sourcing, employer branding, recruitment, and communication strategies within complex organizations, focusing on employee value propositions and underpinned by diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
Before joining BP, she studied in Wales and worked at leading communications and advertising agencies, assisting global clients with employer branding. Outside of work, she enjoys reading and running.
Neil helps organisations get the most out of technology, having held product, marketing and sales roles in leading tech businesses like Sky, BT and Plusnet. At Tribepad he's passionate about transforming the recruitment landscape, to make TA fairer and more effective for companies and candidates.
Tribepad is used by more than 25 million people across the globe in 16 languages. Clients include The BBC, Tesco, Subway, NHS Professionals, Grant Thornton and The Church of England.
Sian Wilson is a global leader with over 25 years of experience in growth, marketing, commercial and strategic organisational development in tech and skills-based businesses. Sian is a Fellow of the RSA- spearheading social change, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Employability and Chartered Member of CIPD.
She is the Vice-Chair of Tech UK’s Skills and Inclusivity Council and Non-Executive Director of Society Matters CIC. As a founding member and Executive Director of Day One, Sian is dedicated to helping businesses ‘Hire Better’ through verified skills and values matching in a fair and equitable way.
Jade Lidgett is the Executive Director of People at Day One, bringing over 13 years of experience in the HR field across startups and corporate environments. Passionate about culture, people, and innovation, Jade is dedicated to building workplaces where individuals can thrive, feel valued, and contribute meaningfully from Day One. Her expertise spans talent strategy, diversity & inclusion, and fostering high-performing cultures that drive both business success and employee well-being. Jade thrives on connecting with like-minded professionals who share her vision for fairer, more inclusive workplaces.