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Recruitment

Meaning in human resources, with examples

/rɪˈkruːtmənt/nounCore term

In human resources, recruitment means: The process of finding, attracting and choosing new people to work for an organisation, from advertising a job to making an offer.

In Turkish: işe alım, personel temini

How it is used

A core HR word, especially in British English. You talk about the recruitment process, a recruitment campaign or a recruitment agency. The verb is recruit: 'We're recruiting two engineers.' In the US, hiring is often used instead.

Example sentences

  1. Recruitment for the new warehouse starts in March, and we need 40 people by June.

  2. We use a recruitment agency for senior roles because they take longer to fill.

Common collocations

  • recruitment process
  • recruitment agency
  • graduate recruitment
  • recruitment campaign
  • talent acquisitionThe long-term work of finding and attracting skilled people to an organisation, including planning future hiring needs and building the employer brand.
  • recruiterA person whose job is to find and hire new employees, either in a company's own HR team or at a recruitment agency.
  • vacancyA job in an organisation that is available because nobody is doing it at the moment, so the company is looking for someone to fill it.
  • candidateA person who is being considered for a job, for example because they have applied or because a recruiter has contacted them.
  • hireTo give someone a job and start employing them. As a noun, a hire is a person who has just been given a job.

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