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    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What is the difference between talent acquisition and recruitment?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Talent acquisition is proactive and long-term, focused on building future workforce capability. Recruitment is reactive and aimed at filling specific open roles quickly. Both are necessary, but they operate at different time horizons."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What is the difference between talent acquisition and talent management?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Talent acquisition brings the right people into the organisation, while talent management focuses on developing and retaining them. The two functions complement each other because strong acquisition without development can lead to high early attrition."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What skills does a talent acquisition professional need?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Key skills include relationship-building, strategic thinking, data literacy, structured interviewing, negotiation, and communication. A background in sales is also valuable because the role involves selling opportunities to candidates and presenting candidates to stakeholders."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How do I build a talent acquisition strategy?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Start with long-term business goals, identify workforce gaps, and align sourcing, employer branding, assessment, and onboarding processes to close those gaps effectively."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How does technology improve talent acquisition?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Technology reduces administrative work, speeds up screening, improves candidate matching, and enables data-driven hiring decisions. ATS, AI, CRM, and analytics tools are most effective when combined with strong human judgment."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "How is talent acquisition measured?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "Talent acquisition is measured using metrics such as time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance rate, source-of-hire, quality-of-hire, and early retention rates. Quality of hire is often considered the most meaningful long-term indicator."
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "Question",
      "name": "What's the biggest mistake organisations make in talent acquisition?",
      "acceptedAnswer": {
        "@type": "Answer",
        "text": "A common mistake is treating talent acquisition like recruitment by waiting until a role opens before sourcing candidates, ignoring employer branding, and measuring success only by hiring speed. This creates a reactive and expensive hiring process instead of a strategic one."
      }
    }
  ]
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