When it comes to making sure you have the best of the best on your team, you’ve probably tossed around the word talent. But talent is a vague and imprecise term. Furthermore, attracting talent and then keeping that talent around require totally different skill sets. If your HR department is in charge of creating job descriptions, attracting new applicants, managing all of those applicants’ benefits, and trying to keep employee churn low, that’s a ton of responsibilities to place on one team. Parsing out which roles are the most important at any given time and having good definitions for each role will help the job become much more manageable.

Using terms like talent management and talent acquisition interchangeably will be to your detriment. It’s important to know and understand the difference between these two vital HR actions.

Talent Acquisition

Talent acquisition refers to the recruiting of new employees to fulfill specific roles on your team, but it’s also so much more than that.

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