Don't miss this world-class talent acquisition disruption masterclass

Sungula Nkabinde 03 December 2020

Hung Lee and Tony de Graaf are the special guests in an upcoming CHRO webinar.

Much like Uber transforming the traditional taxi industry, digital transformation is accelerating and causing a seismic strategic shift. Like so many other aspects of workforce management, the evolution of this area has been disrupted by the ‘remote-first’ necessity of global lockdowns. What does this mean for the future of talent acquisition?

HR professionals interested in talent acquisition trends should join the CHRO Webinar on 3 December. Sponsored by TalentSmith Technology, the webinar will expose attendees to two global talent gurus. Hung Lee is one of the world’s leading talent and recruitment thought leaders and curator of the Recruiting Brainfood newsletter, and Tony de Graaf is a hiring success guru and architect of award-winning talent acquisition teams. Together, these world-class experts will give you a glimpse of the future.

Hung Lee is passionate about making recruitment better for people and businesses and revolutionising the job matching experience. He’s done it as a broker, coach and now a product maker. As co-founder and CEO of Workshape.io – a matching service for tech talent – he’s directly involved in removing the rhetoric from recruitment by converging on interest first, before unlocking the conversation second.

Tony de Graaf has been helping organisations achieve their recruitment goals throughout his career. He is currently the hiring success director for EMEA at SmartRecruiters, an American software company based in San Francisco, California. Through its Software as a Service (SaaS) talent acquisition platform, SmartRecruiters gives clients “the ability to attract, select and hire the best talent, on demand and on budget” with an end-to-end talent acquisition suite that is available in 15 different languages in over 30 countries. Products include an ATS (Applicant Tracking System), CRM (Candidate Relationship Management), and a marketplace of over 350 partner integrations including chatbots, reference checks, job boards, and more.

Sungula Nkabinde

Sungula Nkabinde is the CHRO South Africa community manager. He was instrumental in the launch of the CHRO South Africa community, as its managing editor, and was promoted to his current role in 2021.

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