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# Playlist: Hiring & talent

9 videos · 12 moments · 30.6 minutes

## Values-Based Hiring: Seeing People Beyond Their Skills

- **Maintaining high hiring standards through proactive talent strategy** (28:52, 4min) — Choosing temporary interim solutions over hasty compromises preserves intended culture when facing urgent capacity constraints.
- **Weighing talent acquisition dichotomies and modern industry trends** (38:50, 3min) — Reviewing modern recruitment strategies highlights the necessary balance between structured methodologies and human-centric assessment intuition.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1795-values-based-hiring-seeing-people-beyond-their-skills)

## How to Assess and Hire Talent: The Skills-Based Hiring Playbook for the AI Age

- **Determining optimal assessment stages in modern hiring pipelines** (14:02, 2min) — Sending test links before routine recruiter calls expands the talent pool and significantly accelerates hiring timelines.
- **Shifting to skills-based hiring and evaluation methods** (04:23, 1min) — Focusing on concrete technical and adaptive abilities predicts job success far better than subjective educational backgrounds.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1488-how-to-assess-and-hire-talent-the-skills-based-hiring-playbook-for-the-ai-age)

## Attract and Retain Talent: Strategies that Work

- **Common mistakes companies make in talent acquisition** (00:10, 4min) — Identify why ignoring global talent pools and prioritizing process over capability leads to poor hiring outcomes.
- **Key takeaways for attracting and retaining tech talent** (27:37, 1min) — Treat employee retention as the holistic result of comprehensive talent strategies rather than a standalone short-term tactic.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1479-attract-and-retain-talent-strategies-that-work)

## The Future of Recruiting: Innovations and Challenges in the European IT Sector

- **Rethinking job descriptions and global hiring strategies for the future** (14:00, 1min) — Worsening global talent scarcity demands a paradigm shift toward hiring worldwide and prioritizing specific candidate skills.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1056-the-future-of-recruiting-innovations-and-challenges-in-the-european-it-sector)

## AI in Recruiting: What Works, What Fails - Real Lessons from Office & Volume Hiring

- **Structuring recruiting for both volume and office environments** (00:02, 3min) — Operating a dual-model recruiting team helps compare technological impact across distinct talent markets.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100060-ai-in-recruiting-what-works-what-fails-real-lessons-from-office-volume-hiring)

## Engineering Mindset in the Age of AI - Gunnar Grosch, AWS

- **Shifting restricted industry hiring pipelines back toward junior talent** (28:09, 2min) — Organizations risk long-term leadership vacuums if they continue restricting hiring funnels to exclusively senior candidates.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1735-engineering-mindset-in-the-age-of-ai-gunnar-grosch-aws)

## Local Candidates vs International Talent - Building the Very Best Dev Team

- **Recognizing market constraints and costs of regional hiring** (05:13, 1min) — Relying solely on local talent pools restricts available skills and amplifies the challenges of rising living expenses.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1067-local-candidates-vs-international-talent-building-the-very-best-dev-team)

## Hiring Talent in Tech without Unconscious Bias

- **Speaker journey and professional background in talent acquisition** (00:02, 2min) — An overview of the speaker's international recruitment experience and transition into tech talent acquisition.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1057-hiring-talent-in-tech-without-unconscious-bias)

## Building Your Leadership Muscle: How You Show Up Impacts Culture

- **Recognizing leadership capability gaps by hiring specialists** (13:18, 1min) — Building strong teams by integrating talented specialists and empowering them to drive solutions.

[Learn more](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1502-building-your-leadership-muscle-how-you-show-up-impacts-culture)