Better hiring starts with transparency: What Australian HR teams need to know about the new Privacy Act rules on automated decisions

Be across the incoming privacy act changes and learn how to build candidate trust in an automated hiring process.

Join us live on Thursday  19 November 2026.

Brisbane: 11:00am
Sydney and Melbourne: 12:00pm
Perth: 9:00am
Adelaide: 11:30am

If your hiring process uses any automation, from knockout questions to AI screening, a change to privacy law from 10 December will affect you. Australian organisations must disclose in their privacy policy how automated tools are used in decisions that significantly affect people, including who gets shortlisted, interviewed or declined.

Our new 2027 Hiring Experience Report reveals that 52% of candidates believe they were rejected by an AI system without human review. Much of that worry comes from how little candidates can see of the process behind the technology. In most cases, a person is still making the call, but when communication breaks down, candidates assume a machine decided for them.

This law change is a chance to make sure you’re across the incoming changes, and to look at how these tools can build trust with applicants and improve the candidate experience at a time when 51% of candidates say their trust in recruitment has dropped over the last 12 months.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

  • What changes on 10 December, and a quick self-check to see if it applies to you
  • Why knockout questions, scoring spreadsheets and shortlists that a person reviews can still count
  • What your privacy policy needs to cover, and what you don’t have to reveal
  • What 500+ candidates told us about the hiring experience today, and how these changes can help improve it
  • Practical ways to rebuild candidate trust going into 2027

Join us to learn what’s changing, what to review before 10 December, and how to use this moment to give your hiring process the edge for 2027.

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