James Gardner

Global Head of Talent Acquisition & Fulfillment, Distributed

James has been in the Talent industry for 25 years! His real interest is successfully aligning talent to the growth and commercial goals of an organisation. He feels that often organisations continually forget that talent is the cornerstone of success. In terms of hobbies, James enjoys the sporting side of life, regularly playing golf, tennis, coaching both rugby and cricket, and once a season, getting steep and deep with my first love…..skiing!

What’s a professional achievement of yours from 2024 that you are proud of?

Creating the automated assessment pathway that enabled Distributed to x10 it’s private Talent Cloud

How has the RL Community/helped you this year?

The RL Community is a constant source of ideation and innovation. The highly talented minds that come together as a result of the Community provides the industry a source of continuous improvement, which continually drives innovation in our industry.

What is your prediction for the TA industry for 2025?

We will continue to see the impact of artificial intelligence, and we need to embrace the innovation that can be provided through technological advance. We will see continued automation of repetitive tasks that our TA teams conduct, which will see some roles become redundant. In essence this change will actually focus TA’s human capital resource on impactful outcomes, which will drive increased efficiency ratio’s, and increase ROI. So we will see significant change, but as an industry we need to adapt and embrace this