recruiting

The word “recruiting” means the process of finding and enrolling new members, soldiers, or employees. In plain terms, the ongoing activity of finding new people to join something.

Here is “recruiting” used in a sentence: “The company's recruiting team attends several job fairs each year.”

“Recruiting” is a noun.

“Recruiting” is a fairly common word in modern English.

Both name the process of finding and enrolling new employees, members, or soldiers, and in most contexts they are interchangeable. "Recruitment" is slightly more common as the formal name for the overall process or department, while "recruiting" emphasizes the ongoing activity and is the usual term in American sports and military contexts.

Recruiting is the broader search stage: finding, attracting, and enrolling candidates. Hiring is the final step of actually employing someone. A company can be recruiting for months before it hires anyone, which is why recruiters often contact people who never applied for a job.

Recruiting typically means filling current openings, while talent acquisition is the broader, longer-term strategy of building a candidate pipeline, employer branding, and workforce planning. In practice many companies use the terms interchangeably, with talent acquisition serving as the more corporate label.