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Recruitment

Meaning in public administration, with examples

/rɪˈkruːtmənt/nounCore term

In public administration, recruitment means: The process of finding, selecting and hiring new staff, from advertising a post to making a job offer.

In Turkish: işe alım, personel alımı, istihdam

How it is used

Public bodies run recruitment campaigns, open recruitment rounds and follow recruitment rules. In many civil services recruitment starts with a central exam, followed by interviews. The verb is recruit, and new staff are recruits.

Example sentences

  1. The ministry has frozen recruitment until the new budget is approved.

  2. We changed our recruitment process to attract more engineers.

Common collocations

  • recruitment process
  • recruitment freeze
  • open recruitment
  • recruitment exam
  • graduate recruitment
  • appointmentThe act of officially choosing someone for a job or position, especially in the public sector; also the position itself.
  • merit systemA way of hiring and promoting public employees based on ability, qualifications and performance, often tested through exams, rather than on political connections or personal favours.
  • civil serviceAll the permanent, non-political staff who work in government ministries and agencies, seen as one body; also the system of rules for hiring and managing them.
  • performance appraisalA regular, formal review in which a manager assesses an employee's work against agreed objectives and discusses training needs and future goals.

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