recruitment

recruitment — 名詞

1. the activity of looking for suitable people to fill job openings, join a team, o

1.名詞B2
釋義

招募；招聘

尋找人員加入公司或組織的過程

the activity of looking for suitable people to fill job openings, join a team, or become members of a group or organization — for example, when a company posts job ads, interviews candidates, and offers someone a position.

例句

Quinn joined the HR team to help with the recruitment of new engineers.

Quinn 加入人資團隊，協助新工程師的招募工作。

recruitment of + [role/type of staff]

The company's recruitment drive attracted over two hundred applicants last month.

公司的招募活動上個月吸引了超過兩百名應徵者。

recruitment drive (collocation)

同義詞
  • hiring

    more common in everyday business contexts; slightly less formal and narrower — usually for paid jobs only

  • staffing

    focuses on ensuring positions are filled with suitable personnel; often used in operations planning

  • enlistment

    restricted to military or armed forces contexts; carries a sense of voluntary sign-up

  • recruiting

    the gerund form of the verb; interchangeable with 'recruitment' in most contexts but feels more active/process-oriented

反義詞
  • layoffs

    the opposite activity — letting staff go rather than bringing them in

  • downsizing

    reducing the workforce, often as a cost-cutting measure

  • unemployment

    the state that recruitment aims to reduce; not a direct opposite but closely linked

文法句型

recruitment of + [role/type of person]

recruitment + [noun: drive, process, agency, campaign]

adjective + recruitment (online recruitment, graduate recruitment)

用法筆記

Uncountable noun — do not use with 'a' or in plural form ('recruitments'). Frequently used in compounds such as 'recruitment agency', 'recruitment process', and 'recruitment fair'.

常見錯誤

❌The company did three recruitments this year.
✅The company did three rounds of recruitment this year.
💡'recruitment' is uncountable; use 'rounds of recruitment' or 'recruitment drives' for countable instances.
❌Recruitment new staff is hard.
✅The recruitment of new staff is hard.
💡as a noun, 'recruitment' must be followed by 'of' when specifying the target group.