Giselle Battley
YahooGiselle Battley is the Director, Head of Global Emerging Talent / Talent Acquisition at Yahoo.
A technology boom has provided HR leaders with both opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, AI and other new tech can help match people to workforce needs, reduce bias in hiring, and produce an abundance of data to inform people-management decisions. On the other hand, HR experts need to venture beyond their comfort zones to embrace new tech platforms, collaborate energetically with colleagues with different expertise, choose among myriad new offerings, and recognize the limits and pitfalls of technology. What ideas and advice can be offered by HR leaders who’ve taken an innovative approach to embracing new technology? What are the new frontiers yet to be explored?
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Director, Head of Global Emerging Talent / Talent Acquisition
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Director, Human Resources Technology Transformation
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