{"id":555,"date":"2020-10-30T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sage-people-scraping.local\/?post_type=sage_glossary&#038;p=555"},"modified":"2021-03-31T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T10:32:12","slug":"what-is-talent-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"sage_glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-talent-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"What is talent acquisition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header has-dark-background-color entry-header--has-illustration entry-header--has-illustration--generic\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__row row align-center\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-lg-7 col-xlg-6 entry-header__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"component component-single-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__misc text--subtitle text--uppercase text--small\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/\" class=\"entry-header__link\">Glossary definition<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-title-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is talent acquisition?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"single-post-details container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"reading-time\"> min read<\/span>\n\t\t<button\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"social-share-button button button--icon button--secondary js-social-share-button\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-title=\"What is talent acquisition?\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-talent-acquisition\/\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-text=\"Please read this interesting article\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__share-label\">Share<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-label\" hidden>Copy Link<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\" hidden>Copied<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"sage-block-classic-wrapper\">\n\nTalent acquisition is the process of recruiting new staff members from outside your organisation.\r\n\r\nBasic tasks range from advertising vacancies, managing search and recruitment agencies, receiving and screening candidate applications, testing, assessing, hiring and onboarding.\r\n\r\nIn today\u2019s competitive recruitment environment, talent acquisition has become a far more strategic and sophisticated activity.\r\n\r\nLeading employers maintain a talent pipeline, so they always know what their current and future needs are, can predict who might leave and know who has the potential to be promoted internally.\r\n\r\nWhere there are internal gaps, recruitment professionals use tactics more usually associated with customer marketing to engage with and attract potential candidates.\r\n\r\nThis &#8216;people marketing&#8217; approach may include a focus on social media, establishing and nurturing an employer brand and tailoring your compensation, benefits and working culture to suit the needs and values of the people you want to attract.\r\n\r\nTalent acquisition software can make the entire process easier, helping you to attract, screen and recruit people faster, get them onboard smoothly, ensure candidates and recruits become advocates for your brand, and begin the process of nurturing and engaging employees right from the beginning.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talent acquisition is the process of recruiting new staff members from outside your organisation. Basic tasks range from advertising vacancies, managing search and recruitment agencies, receiving and screening candidate applications, testing, assessing, hiring and onboarding. In today\u2019s competitive recruitment environment, talent acquisition has become a far more strategic and sophisticated activity. 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