Origin: Latin suffix -ment
Recruitment has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)
"The company's recruitment drive has successfully enlisted over fifty new engineers for the upcoming project."
The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.
"The company's recruitment team spent all morning reviewing resumes to find suitable candidates for the new marketing position."
In plain English: Recruitment is the process of finding and hiring new people to join a company or team.
"The company announced a new recruitment drive to hire ten additional software engineers."
Usage: Recruitment refers to the ongoing process of attracting and hiring new employees rather than just filling a single vacancy. Use this term when discussing general efforts to build staff numbers instead of specific job postings like "hiring."
The word recruitment comes from the French term recrutement, which combines the verb to recruit with a suffix meaning an action or process. It entered English as a noun describing the act of gathering new members for a group, such as an army or organization.