What does recruitment mean?
Word: Recruitment
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Recruitment means the process of finding new people to join a company, the army, a team or a club.
Synonyms: hiring, enlistment
How do you spell recruitment?
Syllables: re - cruit - ment
Tricky part: The middle is cruit, with ui, as in fruit and suit. Students often swap the letters to iu or drop the i: recriutment, recrutment.
Watch out for: recriutment, recrutment, recruitmant
Memory tip: Picture an army officer welcoming new recruits with a basket of fruit: recruit and fruit share their middle letters.
Recruitment in a sentence
Example 1: The army holds recruitment rallies in many small towns every year.
Example 2: Our school's recruitment of new sports coaches begins in April.
Example 3: Recruitment for the school band starts next week, so practise your scales.
Fun Fact
Recruit comes from a French word linked to growing again, so recruits were first seen as fresh growth added to an army.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Choose the two parts that join to make a real word:
1. ful 2. ness 3. recruit 4. dis 5. ment 6. ion
a) 3 and 6
b) 3 and 1
c) 3 and 5
d) 4 and 3
Show answer
c) 3 and 5. Ment turns the verb into a noun for the process; recruitful, disrecruit and recruition do not exist.
Sound Check
In which word is 'ui' pronounced differently?
a) build
b) recruitment
c) fruit
d) juice
Show answer
a) build. In recruitment, fruit and juice the ui says oo; in build you hear only a short i.
Word Champ
Choose the correct word for the blank:
Advertising jobs and interviewing people to fill them are both part of ___.
a) resentment
b) recruitment
c) retirement
d) refreshment
Show answer
b) recruitment. Retirement is stopping work, refreshment is food or drink and resentment is anger; finding new people is recruitment.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is part of recruitment at a company?
a) reading the forms of job seekers
b) cleaning all the windows
c) repairing the office chairs
d) paying the electricity bill
Show answer
a) reading the forms of job seekers
2. Which of these best describes a recruitment drive?
a) a long trip in a car through the hills
b) an effort to sign up many new members
c) a race between two teams of runners
d) a meeting held to close down a club
Show answer
b) an effort to sign up many new members
