recruitment

The word “recruitment” means the process of finding and hiring people for jobs or enlisting them into an organization. In plain terms, finding and signing people up, whether for a job, a team, or the military.

“Recruitment” is pronounced rih-KROOT-muhnt (/rɪˈkruːt.mənt / in IPA).

Here is “recruitment” used in a sentence: “The firm outsourced its recruitment to a specialist agency.”

“Recruitment” is a noun.

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

Recruitment is the whole process of finding, attracting, and screening people for jobs or for an organization, while hiring is the final act of taking someone on. A company can be recruiting for months before it actually hires anyone.

They describe the same activity, and in most sentences either works. "Recruitment" is the standard noun and is slightly more formal, as in "the recruitment process", while "recruiting" is especially frequent in American English and in military and sports contexts, as in "college recruiting".

In human resources, recruitment is the stage of finding and attracting a pool of candidates for a role, while selection is the stage of assessing those candidates and choosing among them. Recruitment widens the field; selection narrows it.

A recruitment drive is an organized campaign to find and take on a large number of new employees or members in a short period. The collocation is common in both employment and membership contexts, as in "the club launched a recruitment drive".