For the last two weeks, I have been working with the Talent
Acquisition Division (TAD). Talent Acquisition works alongside other agencies
within the state and provides support to the HR generalists in the field,
specializing in recruitment. I had numerous projects while with TAD which were
very broad in nature and gave me great exposure. Some of my projects included:
researching and finalizing approved budget purchases; researching an upgrade to
an online job posting site; coordinating on-campus interviews for
FSSA/Disability Claims Adjustors; and updating queries and statistics of
employee data for diversity PowerPoints in preparation for a presentation.
Needless to say, I had a lot of projects during this
rotation and there were many more I didn’t even get to work on, but I loved it!
I was busy the whole time and gained a lot of great insights into the things
Talent Acquisition does on a day-to-day and weekly basis. I learned a lot from
these projects. I learned how to do research for job postings and keeping
budgets in mind when improving efficiencies. I communicated with a lot of
different people when coordinating on-campus interviews, which helped develop
my communication skills through email and phone communications. I also learned
how to dissect a query on excel and create spreadsheets and tables quickly.
One project in particular that will stick out to me was the
diversity project. There is so much that goes into diversity and recruiting
diverse employees. The state looks at each agency’s diversity statistics and
compares the statistics of citizens of Indiana to see how closely it matches to
our employee population. I enjoyed seeing how an organization does this because
it is important to have your workforce look similar to that of the available
workforce. I was able to look at the diversity within many positions and get a
better idea of what the entire state looks like in its diversity and how well
the state matches that in employment. This is very important to do in
employment, and the state is working very hard to do that. I took the queries
of the employees and then divided them accordingly into the pre-set categories
of the PowerPoints and updated them.
I very much enjoyed my time with Talent Acquisition. It was
busy, challenging, and very rewarding. Next I go to the Department of Child
Services.
