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What is a talent acquisition team and why did twitter need one?

Is it like the Scouts in Moneyball? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWgyy_rlmag

"Jane has a good looking typing motion, has a git checkin rate of .324, and scored a 465 on their leetcode"

"She has an ugly husband though, suggests a lack of confidence"

"I like Jim, good coders body, lean cut, good face. Good looking keystroke, the code just explodes off his keyboard with a real pop. You can hear it all the way over at the kombucha tap."

"If he codes so good, where are the git checkins? He's checking in at a .154"

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In a firm the size of Twitter, someone's got to keep the recruitment process organized. Making sure candidates are told their feedback, arranging calls with the managers, making sure there's job ads up on various sites, plus talking to agency recruiters.

If they're not hiring anyone though, they don't really need a lot of TA people...

> making sure candidates are told their feedback

Lol. Of the 15 companies I interviewed with, only 1 gave feedback.

was... was it twitter?

It’s a fancy phrase for tech recruiting.

It’s recruiters…

I think it is just a way to call the human resources team. It sounds better if you are hired by the talent acquisition team rather than the human resources team.

Putting all of it under the umbrella term of HR is like putting software engineering and dev ops under the 'IT' umbrella. There's no cross-capability.

I've seen people move into and out of HR roles from areas far more exotic than recruiting, including PAs, engineers, accountants, and be very successful at it. Claiming that there is 'no cross-capability' between HR and recruiting, when those jobs are often done by the very same people in smaller organizations, is ludicrous.

You've drunk so much of the corporate bureaucracy kool-aid that you started to believe it is truly necessary.

I could probably move into IT. Moving into management is common. But I won't pick up tickets for either.

> software engineering and dev ops under the 'IT' umbrella

Anywhere with a small team has people doing both, which, as it happens, is exactly the same situation for HR…

'both' doesn't include the third option, IT

Wondering when "talent acquisition" will be the new "human resources" and what fancy term takes its place.

AFAICT it's pretty common among tech companies for "recruiting" to be called "talent acquisition" and "human resources" to be called "people operations" or similar

And even "human resources" is a fancied-up name for "personnel department".

“Personnel department” sounds so much better. At least they’re people, not resources.

The term human resources means that the department manages resources for humans not resources which are humans.

Those are called people managers.

Recruiting or “talent” often reports to HR.

HR gatekeeping development, to make themselves seems important. Guess that ruse is coming to an end finally.

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