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Hire

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

/haɪər/verbCore term

In job interviews & careers, hire means: To give someone a job and start paying them to work for you.

In Turkish: işe almak, istihdam etmek

How it is used

Very common in American English and in tech: 'We're hiring!', 'She was hired as a sales manager'. As a noun, 'a new hire' is a recently hired employee. In British English 'recruit' and 'take on' are also common.

Example sentences

  1. We're hiring two backend developers this quarter.

  2. He was hired straight after his internship.

Common collocations

  • hire staff
  • be hired as
  • new hire
  • we're hiring
  • hiring process
  • recruiterA person whose job is to find and select people for jobs, either inside a company's HR team or at an external agency.
  • hiring managerThe manager who needs a new team member and who makes, or strongly influences, the final decision about who gets the job.
  • candidateA person who is being considered for a job, especially someone who has applied and is going through the selection process.
  • job offerA formal proposal from an employer to give you a job, usually stating the salary, start date and main conditions.

This word in other fields

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