by Court Cano | Feb 9, 2022
What is talent acquisition?
Talent acquisition refers to the HR functions necessary to source, attract, process, screen, qualify and hire talent. They include:
- Developing a hiring plan
- Developing an elegant candidate acquisition program
- Writing job descriptions
- Posting jobs to job boards, careers pages, and social media accounts
- Tracking hiring metrics
- Receiving and tracking applications and resumes
- Developing screening questionnaires, candidate scorecards and interview scripts
- Scheduling and conducting interviews
- Performing background and reference checks
- Writing offer letters
- Employment contract negotiation
- Creating employee referral programs
- Finding the best candidates who may not even be looking
Talent Acquisition Management
The task of talent acquisition varies depending on the size of a company. In small businesses, owners may handle all recruiting tasks themselves. In larger organizations, Human Resources departments and hiring managers perform much of the recruiting work. At the enterprise level, companies may outsource recruiting to staffing agencies or professional recruiters (sometimes called headhunters).
How does a talent acquisition specialist fill an open job?
Here is the general process a talent acquisition specialist or hiring manager would follow:
- Submit a job requisition to appropriate members of leadership and obtain approval
- Perform a job analysis to identify the knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics required for a position.
- Decide whether to fill the new position with an outside candidate or through internal placement.
- Write a job description based on the position analysis
- Create the application including any screening questionnaires included in the application process
- Post the job to job boards, social media sites, careers pages or other job advertising venues
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- Seek referrals from current employees
- Review applications and resumes for qualifications and experience
- Select a pool of top candidates from the overall applicant pool
- Manage the interview and evaluation process:
- Select the candidates from the initial pool who will advance to a phone interview
- Of those candidates, choose which candidates to invite for in-person or video interviews
- Schedule interviews
- Conduct interviews
- Gather feedback from the hiring team
- Make the final hiring decision
- Obtain approval from the executive team (or other necessary stakeholders)
- Conduct background and reference checks
- Extend an offer letter
- Negotiate the employment contract
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by Court Cano | Feb 9, 2022
What is a hiring manager?
The hiring manager hires new employees to fill open positions in for-profit, non-profit or governmental organizations. Hiring managers are typically people from the department in which the new employee will work. They may serve as the new employee’s supervisor once they accept the position. Hiring managers work with the Human Resources department as well as any recruiters or agencies hired by the organization to fill jobs.
What is a Hiring Manager Responsible for?
The hiring manager’s job is to ensure that the company hires qualified talent to help execute its business strategy. The hiring manager is responsible for a wide range of tasks, including:
- Determining the need for a new position
- Conducting a job analysis to determine the skills, abilities, and knowledge required for a new or open position.
- Preparing and submitting a job requisition to the appropriate members of leadership, who must then approve the request.
- Deciding whether to fill a new position with an outside hire or by promoting from within
- Writing a job description based on the position analysis
- Creating the application including any screening questionnaires included in the application process
- Posting the job to job boards, social media sites, careers pages or other job advertising venues
- Managing an internal referral program
- Reviewing applications and resumes
- Separating the top candidates from the overall applicant pool
- Managing the interview and evaluation process:
- Determining which candidates from the initial pool will advance to a phone interview
- Of those candidates, choosing which candidates to invite for in-person or video interviews
- Scheduling interviews
- Writing the interview script for the interview process
- Creating assessment materials to evaluate the final applicant pool
- Making the final hiring decision
- Obtaining approval from the executive team (or other necessary stakeholders)
- Defining roles and responsibilities for the hiring team
- Directing the recruitment team throughout the hiring process
- Working with in-house and outsourced recruiters
- Writing the job offer
- Negotiating the employment contract with the chosen applicant
- Overseeing the onboarding of the new hire
- Assigning a mentor to the new employee
Differences between a Hiring Manager and a Recruiter
In most companies, recruiters work to attract a pool of qualified applicants for positions. Hiring managers then identify the most qualified candidate from the pool of applicants.
Average Salary for a Hiring Manager
The national average salary for a Hiring Manager is $51,826 in the United States. (Glassdoor)
What Work Tech can help a hiring manager be successful?
Hiring software, including applicant tracking systems, helps to streamline the hiring process by allowing hiring managers to track applications, post jobs, communicate with candidates and manage job description, email and interview templates. For example, applicant tracking systems can be integrated with Job boards and job distribution platforms to post jobs with ease.
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