A talent acquisition strategy is a plan or process that is implemented to solve for a specific shortcoming or problem related to your hiring efforts, such as lack of applicant pool, lengthy response times, productivity waste on severely unqualified candidates—or perhaps a combination of multiple problems. It typically starts with having an ideal candidate in-mind and re-focusing your efforts around that candidate’s preferences and habits to create increasingly interested behavior to the point where they make a decision to apply for one of your jobs, and stay engaged with you up until the point a hiring decision is made.