This panel brings together top talent acquisition experts to explore critical hiring trends shaping 2025. Topics include AI's expanding role in recruitment, transforming candidate sourcing, screening, and engagement through automation and data insights. The panel will discuss skills-based hiring, focusing on verifying competencies over traditional degrees, and its broad implications for talent pools and inclusivity. They’ll also examine the impact of Return-to-Office (RTO) policies on candidate preferences and retention, offering insights on balancing flexibility with business needs. Additionally, strategies for fostering workforce resilience and adaptability amid ongoing industry shifts will be shared, offering HR and TA leaders essential insights to effectively attract and retain talent in a competitive landscape.
Learning Outcome 1: Understand the role of AI in transforming recruitment processes, including how automation and data-driven insights can enhance candidate sourcing, screening, and engagement.
Learning Outcome 2: Identify the benefits and challenges of skills-based hiring, including strategies to assess essential competencies over traditional qualifications, and how this approach impacts diversity and inclusivity in talent acquisition.
Learning Outcome 3: Explore best practices for addressing Return-to-Office (RTO) policies that balance flexibility with business needs, while fostering workforce resilience and aligning with evolving candidate and employee expectations.
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Nicole Belyna, SHRM-SCP
Director, Talent Acquisition & Inclusion
SHRM
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Nicole is a human resources leader with over 15 years of expertise in all things talent. Currently serving as the Director, Talent Acquisition and Inclusion at SHRM in Alexandria, VA, she is fortunate to lead a team of amazing people who also happen to be exceptional HR professionals. As a talent leader for well-known brands, she has crafted and executed award-winning talent management strategies that attract, develop, and retain top-tier talent, enhancing companies' reputations as premier workplaces and net exporters of talent.
Nicole has honed her skills across diverse industries, including fashion and beauty retail, hospitality, and manufacturing. She holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership and learning from The George Washington University in Washington, DC and bachelor's degree in business administration from Russell Sage College in Troy, NY. Nicole is proud to be SHRM certified.
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Kristen Freeman Johnson
Senior Regional Director
Beacon Hill Associates
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Jeff Luttrell
Consutant
Results Consulting
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Jeff Luttrell, SPHR, SHRM-SCP resides in Carolina Beach NC and Asheville NC. He is currently a Consultant at Results Consulting. Previously, he was Global Vice President of People and Talent Acquisition at Atento and has held leadership roles in Talent Acquisition and Staffing with Alorica, Xerox and Kelly Services.
He has over 20 years of recruitment and human resources experience in both the staffing industry and corporate recruiting including international, executive, high volume and professional recruiting. He has led teams in the US, Canada, EMEA ,Asia and Latin America.
He has served in many volunteer roles such as SHRM Southeast Region MAC Board Member, President and Board member with Raleigh Metro SHRM and served as Director of the NCSHRM State Council. He has served on SHRMs HR Disciplines, Talent Acquisition, Global, Diversity and Inclusion expertise panels and currently on the Together Forward at Work Taskforce since 2020. He regularly speaks on Talent and DEI across the US. He also has been on Parks and Recreation Boards in Wake County, City of Asheville and Town of Carolina Beach. He is also a Board member with the LGBTQ Center of Cape Fear and was also on planning boards for the LGBTQ Chamber in Raleigh, Evening With Friends and the Aidswalk.
Jeff is a true Tar Heel having grown up in NC graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in Journalism. He received an HR Management Certificate from Duke University.
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Claire Stroh, SHRM-CP
Manager, of Managed Talent Services
Lighthouse Technology Services
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Claire Stroh, MBA, SHRM-CP is currently the Manager, of Managed Talent Services at Lighthouse Technology Services and CEO of Claire is Coaching. She has used LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and networking to build her personal brand and uncover new opportunities for herself and the companies she’s worked for. She’s passionate about helping others do the same! Claire has more than 10 years of successively diverse human resources management experience with privately-owned and publicly-traded global leaders. She is an active member and blogger for SHRM and served on SHRM’s Emerging Professional Advisory Council (EPAC) for four years. Claire was named a 2022 HR Impact Award Winner by Buffalo Business First and 2022 Community Catalyst Award Winner by HRUnite!.