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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 https://www.you
by blitzar 4y ago
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 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"
- paulgb 4y agoIt’s a fancy phrase for tech recruiting.
- stepanhruda 4y agoIt’s recruiters…
- jorgemf 4y agoI 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.
- thrwyoilarticle 4y agoPutting 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.
- t_mann 4y agoI'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.
- thrwyoilarticle 4y agoI could probably move into IT. Moving into management is common. But I won't pick up tickets for either.
- petesergeant 4y ago> 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…
- thrwyoilarticle 4y ago'both' doesn't include the third option, IT
- plibither8 4y agoWondering when "talent acquisition" will be the new "human resources" and what fancy term takes its place.
- conro1108 4y agoAFAICT it's pretty common among tech companies for "recruiting" to be called "talent acquisition" and "human resources" to be called "people operations" or similar
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoAnd even "human resources" is a fancied-up name for "personnel department".
- makeitdouble 4y ago“Personnel department” sounds so much better. At least they’re people, not resources.
- kjeetgill 4y agoThe term human resources means that the department manages resources for humans not resources which are humans. Those are called people managers.
- 1123581321 4y agoRecruiting or “talent” often reports to HR.
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y agoHR gatekeeping development, to make themselves seems important. Guess that ruse is coming to an end finally.
- lordnacho 4y agoIn 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...