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The Adaptive Hiring Model

How AI is changing the economics and structure of talent acquisition, and what the right structure looks like for a modern talent function.

AI is changing the economics of hiring. This guide sets out the structural opportunity it creates: a smaller, more strategic internal core, technology and AI handling the operational load, and flexible external capacity for peaks and hard searches. Drawn from the Adaptive Hiring Model framework and Kevin Wheeler's Nucleus Model keynote at Supernova 2025, it is a practical read for any talent leader thinking about how their function should be structured.

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What you’ll find

  1. Why hiring teams are built the way they are
  2. What AI changes for the talent function
  3. The structural opportunity: core, technology and flexible capacity
  4. What it looks like in practice
  5. Why it is worth thinking about now

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