Making Skills the Foundation of Hiring
Join us for an an in-person discussion for senior Talent and People leaders on how organisations are using skills more practically to drive real business outcomes.
📅 March 26th, 2026
📍 Greenhouse Tech Hub Level 3, Salesforce Tower, Sydney AU
☕ Arrival 2:00pm
🎤 Panel 2:30pm
🥂 Networking from 4:00pm
What To Expect
This session will explore how organisations can move beyond the concept of skills and apply them in structured, deliberate ways, embedding capability into hiring frameworks and the systems and processes that shape how talent decisions are made.
Why shift to skills?
What’s driving the move away from hiring based on titles and tenure, what is changing and what risks organisations face if they don’t evolve.
What needs to change?
How skills taxonomies and capability frameworks reshape hiring processes and decision criteria as well as create a more adaptable foundation for a changing workforce.
How to embed it in practice
How a skills-led approach reshapes workforce design, talent decisions and organisational adaptability over time and what that means for the systems, processes and signals organisations rely on every day.
Don't miss out on joining us on March 26th, 2026
Greenhouse Tech Hub
Level 3 Salesforce Tower, 180 George St Sydney, NSW 2000
Our Panelists
Shane Little - Hays
Managing Director
APAC, Enterprise Solutions
Shane has worked in the recruitment, talent and workforce solutions industry for 26 years, beginning as a graduate in his home city Dublin. In that time, he has had a varied career with Hays across the globe and for the past 12 years has been designing, implementing and overseeing enterprise workforce solutions across Asia Pacific. Having worked closely with diverse organisations such as Morgan Stanley, LinkedIn, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and more. He has a unique insight to the talent and skills challenges faced by Australian employers today.
Over the past two years Shane has worked with Virgin Unite on it’s first Australian focussed innovation cluster tackling the challenge of Human Skills and Capability in a world augmented by AI and digitisation. His long career in the Talent industry, coupled with his most passionate interest – his two teenage kids, give him a unique perspective on the future of skills.
Jane Hawkins - UNSW
Director, Workforce Strategy & Planning
Jane is a workforce strategy leader with experience across ASX-listed financial services and global organisations. She specialises in strategic workforce planning, organisational redesign and capability uplift, helping businesses align skills, structure and cost to performance to improve engagement and reduce attrition.
Throughout her career, Jane has partnered with executive leaders to navigate growth, transformation and regulatory change, ensuring workforce capability keeps pace with strategic ambition. She brings deep expertise in balancing capacity and capability, identifying skills gaps, and designing practical, commercially grounded solutions that deliver measurable impact. Passionate about enabling people to do their best work, Jane focuses on building sustainable, future-ready workforces that drive long-term business performance.
Arthur Georgiou - iMed
Head of Talent
Arthur is a talent acquisition leader with over 15 years of experience across agency, RPO, and in-house environments, giving him a 360-degree view of how effective hiring works at scale. At I-MED Radiology Network, Australia’s largest diagnostic imaging provider, he leads nationwide recruitment across a specialised and highly regulated workforce, where consistency, capability, and fairness are operational necessities.
Throughout his career, Arthur has built structured, skills-first hiring frameworks into complex organisations, stripping bias from the process through rigorous design rather than compliance. He brings deep expertise in large-scale TA operations, inclusive hiring practice, and embedding equitable, repeatable recruitment systems across distributed teams. Passionate about getting the fundamentals right, Arthur believes the best hiring decisions come from clarity of criteria and has spent his career making that a practical reality.
Our Moderator
Omer Molad - Vervoe
CEO & Co-founder
Omer Molad is the co-founder and CEO of Vervoe, a skills-based AI platform for hiring that helps companies hire the best person for the job, based on what candidates can actually do, not how their resume looks.
Before founding Vervoe, Omer served as an officer in the military, worked in startups, and spent nearly a decade in banking at ANZ and NAB, where he led a corporate finance team of 25. He also holds a Law/Commerce degree and a Masters in International Law from the University of Melbourne, and spent two years coordinating international emergency response for the Australian Red Cross.
In 2016, Omer co-founded Vervoe with David Weinberg, inspired by the “audition” model pioneered by Automattic, where candidates demonstrate real skills by doing an in-person job trial. By automating the job trial, Vervoe helps some of the world’s most discerning companies make hiring decisions based on skills, at scale.
Don't miss out on joining us on March 26th, 2026
Greenhouse Tech Hub
Level 3 Salesforce Tower, 180 George St Sydney, NSW 2000
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