About the Event

Talent and HR teams alike are having a rough go of it. Skilled candidates are harder to find, the pool feels shallower every quarter, and more organizations are discovering that a great resume and a great interview don’t always translate to a great hire. Add in a workforce that’s simultaneously racing to adopt AI while quietly wondering what it means for their own future, and you’ve got a talent strategy problem that no single job posting is going to fix.

Join HR Brew, alongside talent leaders who’ve been in the trenches of this exact tension, to unpack how organizations are rethinking the old playbook: hire for a role, train over time, backfill when someone leaves. That model is breaking. The leaders getting ahead of it are asking a sharper question instead: for any given gap, do you build the skill internally, buy it externally, or borrow it on demand?

Here’s what you can expect to cover:

• Spotting a real skills gap versus a hiring panic. Not every open position is a five-alarm fire. Learn how to tell the difference between a gap that needs an urgent external hire and one your current team could close with the right upskilling push, plus how skills-based hiring is reshaping what verification looks like earlier in the funnel.
• The build, buy, or borrow decision. A practical framework for deciding when to develop talent internally, when to go external, and when fractional or contract talent is the smarter (and faster) move, especially as skill needs shift faster than most hiring cycles can keep up.
• AI’s split personality in your talent strategy. Understand where AI comes into play both as a potential hiring tool, but also a source of employee anxiety, often playing out on the same team and in the same quarter. Hear how leaders are using AI to sharpen recruiting without eroding the human skills that drive performance.