Hiring with Confidence: How to Assess Real Expertise in the Age of AI

As AI continues to reshape selection and interview processes and how candidates present themselves, hiring with confidence is becoming more challenging than ever.

In this episode of Inspired Live, Verity Hawson, Associate Director at Inspired will be joined alongside Katie Thorn, VP International Sales & Marketing at Macmillan Learning, and Chantel Hayward FCIPD, Founder & Director at Fox & Fable (current Interim Head of HR at Quarto), where they’ll explore how to design more human-centred hiring processes, ones that look beyond polished applications to uncover genuine capability, potential and fit.

Together they’ll share practical ways to test real expertise, from live tasks and case studies to presentations, all while maintaining a positive and inclusive candidate experience. 

This session will also touch upon:

• The growing impact of AI on applications and candidate evaluation
• How to test real expertise through live, in-process assessments
• Designing fair, inclusive and role-relevant tasks
• Balancing rigour with a great candidate experience

This is the perfect event for Hiring managers, HR professionals, and talent leaders who want to make confident, well-informed hiring decisions in an AI-driven world. Join us live at 12pm on Thursday 2nd July, live on our LinkedIn page.

About our speakers:
Chantel Hayward is a senior HR professional, leadership coach and Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, with over 18 years' experience helping organisations navigate the people challenges that growth creates.
Through her practice, Fox & Fable, Chantel works with founders, leaders and creative teams to grow in their leadership, navigate difficult people decisions and create thriving teams and cultures. Drawing on a career spanning HR leadership, people and culture and executive coaching, she brings a practical and thoughtful approach to leadership and growth.
An ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and Mental Health First Aider, Chantel's insights have been featured in Marie Claire, Stylist and The i Paper. She also serves as a judge for the Company Culture Awards.

Katie Thorn is a senior leader in higher education publishing with over 25 years of experience spanning sales, marketing, and international market development. She has built and led teams across multiple publishing businesses including Macmillan Learning, Springer Nature and Pearson with a particular focus on creating collaborative, customer-focused cultures and taking products and people into new markets. Katie is passionate about how the industry is evolving, especially the growing role of AI in the workplace, and brings a thoughtful, practical approach to navigating change.

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