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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.

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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.

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