Article-Increasing Demand of Talent Acquisition in industry

Increasing Demand of  Talent Acquisition in Industry

Talent acquisition is the process of identifying, shortlisting and acquiring skilled manpower to meet your organizational requirement. The talent acquisition team is responsible for identifying, acquiring, assessing, and hiring candidates to fill open vacancies within the organisation. The talent acquisition team have to fulfil the organisation day to day need by hiring candidates suit to the organisation culture.

                                              

Supremacy of talent acquisition over recruitment- 

Recruitment is about the filling the vacancy whereas Talent Acquisition is an ongoing process to find the talent, specialist, leader, meet the future need of the organisation. Talent Acquisition commitment to hire, retain and develop the most talented employees as the future leader of the organisation.

Talent acquisition enables you to see beyond a person's credentials and see the possibilities for the future. Most people can be trained for a position, so finding the right attitude and personality can make all the difference in your long-term success of the organisation.

Talent Acquisition Strategies-.

Build a strong employer brand- It is simply how you market your company to desired job seekers. An employer brand refers to the reputation of the company and it’s identity and reputation as an employer. The goal of employer brand is to attract and retain high-quality employees

Boost collaboration among hiring team – It means you make sure you can get your team involved. Recruitment is very tough/ tiring job so decrease the levels of stress among recruiters’ team by open communication, mutual understanding, clear expectation. Collaboration in the workplace is when two or more people work together through idea sharing and thinking to achieve a common goal

Leverage recruitment Technology that is influencing the talent acquisition and management industry, can help recruiters to search, screen, nurture and refer the best applicants that are a right fit for the respective employers.' Needs.

Identify candidate challenges- When you give the advertisement for any job opening. You will find the many CVs and many candidates approaching you through various sources.  But identifying the right to suit the organization culture and meet the organization needs is very hard job for the recruiter.

Important skills of Talent Acquisition team-

1.     Recruitment- The process of attracting, shortlisting, selecting, finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate within an organisation or outside of an organization for a job opening. Closing the opening within the time frame of the organisation without any delay. Recruit the candidate who best suit our organisation culture.

2.     Competency Mapping- Competency mapping is the process of identifying the specific skills, knowledge, abilities, and behaviors required to operate effectively in a specific job or organization. Every organization predefined the competency for each level of employees. Talent Acquisition should have the thorough understanding skill of competency mapping so that they can induct the right candidate for the write job.

                                                    

3.     Communication is the process of passing an information signal one source (sender) to a another (receiver) in such a way that the message is understood in correct form. Talent Acquisition team should have excellent speaking, listening, reading and writing communication skills. Team has the ability to understanding of the sender and also the ability to make the sender understand the communication. He should have to have excellent communication skills and be able to invite candidates to apply.

4.     Negotiation – Talent Acquisition team should have good negotiating skill.so that they can negotiate with the new hiring employees the salary, perks and other benefit in better way to avoid the further dispute.     

5.     Interpersonal skills-Talent Acquisition person should have excellent interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills include a wide variety of skills, though many are centred around communication, such as listening, questioning and understanding body language.

6.     Marketing skills. Finding most suitable talent in today’s market is extremely difficult task. The number of open positions is much higher than the number of applicants. That’s why Talent Acquisition person needs to be great marketer. He should know how to sell position using the latest marketing tactics.


                                             

7       Relationship building skills. Great recruiters think of recruitment as a relationship between a candidate and a company. Similar to a sales process, Recruiters with great relationship building skills can build and nurture the relationship between a candidate and a company.

8       Team Player- Talent Acquisition person should be good team leader. He should have the ability to motivate his team. He should be able to build the trust among the team members. If team is motivated then it will be able to perform well and give 100% to the organiation.

9       Coping with pressure- Hiring is a lengthy process, and there’s quite a lot between posting a job ad and filling an open position. Talent Acquisition is very difficult task, he has to deal with many persons, listen to them, solve their queries. Make them satisfy. Recruiters need to put together job ads, screen applicants, run background checks, conduct interviews, consult with their employer, make job offers and much more. He should have the ability to cope with pressure.

10   . Time management skills.- Every company has their own policy in how much time to be taken to close the open position. Time limit is separate for each position. Talent Acquisition Team has to follow the company time lines strictly to avoid the production loss at the organisation.Time becomes even more relevant if the recruiter is working with companies that have flexible working hours and employees across different time zones.

11   . Patience. A successful recruiter needs to have a great amount of patience, as they deal with both candidates and companies.

12   Listening skills- Talent Acquisition team should good listen. He has to develop the quality of listening Besides listening to the companies they have to listen to applicants with great attention. Applicants, in particular, are very important because their feedback is crucial to placing them in a position that suits to candidates as well to the employer too.

13. Being target-driven. Company define the time limit to close each position. Companies depend on recruiters, who have to hire X amount of people by a certain date. Target-driven recruiters keep company performance in mind and hit their numbers in time.

14. Reliability- Company is relying on Talent Acquisition team to find the best possible candidate for a given position. A great recruiter needs to be reliable and meet the needs of the company.




                                                          

Talent Acquisition persons is the back bone of the company.  Company rely on the talent acquisition team to mete their production target in time.  Talent Acquisition persons should be approachable, responsible, and caring. They should also be great listeners and have great communication skills. Having excellent interpersonal skills can make you more likable and trustworthy as a recruiter, making candidates want to come work for your company.

Talent Acquisition persons should be approachable, responsible, and caring. They should also be great listeners and have great communication skills. Having excellent interpersonal skills can make you more likable and trustworthy as a recruiter, making candidates want to come work for your company.