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recruitment

[ri-kroot-muhnt] / rɪˈkrut mənt /


NOUN
enlistment
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By hosting students for work-based learning opportunities, businesses boost their local communities, streamline their own talent recruitment and ensure students are trained for high-demand careers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

The phrase rinse and repeat may apply to hair washing, but these days it also applies to Aberdeen's recruitment of managers.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

The company is seeking to keep costs down, minimizing discretionary spending and pausing recruitment of nonoperational staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The DoH said within the wider children's social care services reform programme, a draft strategy for fostering recruitment and retention had been developed.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

At least one guy, usually more, filmed the games for the purpose of recruitment.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

This year, the agency has offered extra pay to help entice retirement-eligible controllers to stay on, while raising wages for early-career employees and stepping up recruitments to the air-traffic-controller academy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

“When I got there, I saw banners advertising recruitments for the army. By then, I had spent so much time and money that I decided to join anyway,” he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2024

He built relationships by aiding players’ college recruitments — contacting coaches and driving players to colleges for camps and visits.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Georgia has had a number of failed auto plant recruitments.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

War-minister Narbonne, he of the rose-coloured Reports, solicits recruitments, equipments, money, always money; threatens, since he can get none,—to 'take his sword,' which belongs to himself, and go serve his country with that.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle


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