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talent

English translation: person hired to do specific task involving skilled or creative work

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English term or phrase:talent
Selected answer:person hired to do specific task involving skilled or creative work
Entered by: Nesrin

17:27 Jun 15, 2008
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management
English term or phrase: talent
This is from a survey that's to be conducted with employees of a company (so the document is a mixture of questionnaire questions as well as instructions to the person conducting the interview).

The document usually just refers to the "employees". But on a single occasion (in a footnote to the word "familiar") states:

"Respondent is familiar* with one or more other companies (...)

*Employee or talent is familiar: knows the company very well or a fair amount about it"

How should I understand the word "talent" here? Is it referring to employees with particular skills (I don't see a reason for mentioning them separately here) or to potential employees (and if so, does it only refer to very skilled applicants or applicants in general)?

Thanks!
Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:43
a person who is hired to perform a task requiring (usually, but not necessarily, artisitic) talent
Explanation:
When I do voiceover, I am referred to in the studio as "the talent." They would say, for instance, "the talent needs a glass of water."
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Fuad Yahya
Grading comment
Thanks a million, Fuad.
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5 +6a person who is hired to perform a task requiring (usually, but not necessarily, artisitic) talent
Fuad Yahya


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a person who is hired to perform a task requiring (usually, but not necessarily, artisitic) talent


Explanation:
When I do voiceover, I am referred to in the studio as "the talent." They would say, for instance, "the talent needs a glass of water."

Fuad Yahya
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks a million, Fuad.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tatiana N. (X): or high degree of skill and expertise in his field - "legal talent", for example
36 mins
agree  Demi Ebrite: I agree, and believe that the use of 'talent' may refer to outsourced personnel, or temporary positions hired for a specific objective.
36 mins
agree  Valery Kaminski: I had to rewrite trialogues into dialogues in a textbook as the editor said they could afford only one male and one female talent to make a recording :(
3 hrs
agree  Ken Cox: IMO the term is used in all sectors that involve skilled or creative work (including engineering)
4 hrs
agree  ricochu0311: In Hong Kong, models can also be called talents. They actually speak Cantonese with the English word "talent". I don't know if other places call the same.
4 hrs
agree  Kim Metzger: Welcome back, Fuad. We've missed you.
5 hrs
  -> Happy father's day to you, Kim.
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