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Talent acquisition

Meaning in human resources, with examples

nounCommon term

In human resources, talent acquisition means: The long-term work of finding and attracting skilled people to an organisation, including planning future hiring needs and building the employer brand.

In Turkish: yetenek kazanımı, yetenek edinimi, işe alım

How it is used

Often the name of the team (TA): talent acquisition partner, head of talent acquisition. It sounds more strategic than recruitment, though many people use the two words for the same work.

Example sentences

  1. Our talent acquisition team is focusing on graduate hiring this autumn.

  2. He leads talent acquisition for the whole of Europe.

Common collocations

  • talent acquisition team
  • talent acquisition partner
  • head of talent acquisition
  • talent acquisition strategy
  • recruitmentThe process of finding, attracting and choosing new people to work for an organisation, from advertising a job to making an offer.
  • recruiterA person whose job is to find and hire new employees, either in a company's own HR team or at a recruitment agency.
  • employer brandingThe way a company presents itself as a place to work, and the efforts it makes to be seen as an attractive employer.
  • workforce planningAnalysing the staff an organisation has now and the people and skills it will need in the future, then planning how to close the gap.

More terms: Recruitment & Hiring

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