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The future of talent acquisition lies more in augmentation than automation, but TA teams need to obtain far more information about performance differentiators, according to an expert.

Talk of "build, buy, borrow or bot" strategies isn't new – five years ago, Deloitte built a recruitment robot capable of end-to-end hiring – but a reluctance to fully trust technology has since caused a "fundamental" shift away from automation, says people and workforce planning strategist Stuart Elliott.

Elliott, who is speaking at the Australasian Talent Conference this week, says that when it comes to technology the amount of short-term change people experience tends to be far less than they expect, while the long-term change tends to be far more...