Definition of recruitment
1 : the action or process of recruiting
2 : the process of adding new individuals to a population or subpopulation (as of breeding or legally catchable individuals) by growth, reproduction, immigration, and stocking; also : a measure (as in numbers or biomass) of recruitment
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Even one of those players leaving adds importance to Langford's recruitment.
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Alabama is also involved in the recruitment of three other quarterbacks at The Opening - five-stars Justin Fields of Kennesaw, Ga., Matt Corral of Long Beach, Calif., and Jack Tuttle, a Utah commit also from California.
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Your Salary The top salaries in Hong Kong for jobs in the financial industry are about 25 percent higher than in Singapore on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the 2017 salary survey of recruitment firm Robert Walters Plc.
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And from malnutrition to recruitment, those traveling without parents or guardians are especially vulnerable.
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Security analysts say the efforts have dramatically reduced the use of these platforms for jihadist recruitment efforts, although more work needs to be done.
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The 6-foot-2, 175-pound Perkins said convincing his parents to sign off on his decision was more difficult than his actual college recruitment.
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According to executive-recruitment firm Korn/Ferry International , 22% of new CFOs are appointed within a CEO’s first year on the job, and 41% of new CFOs are appointed within a CEO’s first three years on the job.
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At Santa Cruz Bicycles on the Santa Cruz Westside, recruitment coordinator Lauren Dockendorf has hired 20 people since January.
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First Known Use of recruitment
1793
Medical Dictionary
recruitment
playMedical Definition of recruitment
1: the increase in intensity of a reflex when the initiating stimulus is prolonged without alteration of intensity due to the activation of increasing numbers of motor neurons—compare reinforcement
2: an abnormally rapid increase in the sensation of loudness with increasing sound intensity that occurs in deafness of neural origin and especially in neural deafness of the aged in which soft sounds may be completely inaudible while louder sounds are distressingly loud
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