Recruitment vs. Selection — What's the Difference?

Recruitment refers to the overall process of identifying, attracting, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing suitable candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization. Recruitment can also refer to processes involved in choosing individuals for unpaid roles.

The act of selecting something

To enlist (persons) in military service.

One that is selected, such as a literary or musical text chosen for reading or performance

To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.

A carefully chosen or representative collection of people or things

To hire or enroll, or seek to hire or enroll (new employees, members, or students).

A range of things from which one can make a choice

To renew or restore (health or vitality, for example).

(Biology) A natural or artificial process that involves the survival and reproduction of some kinds of organisms instead of others (because they have traits that are better adapted to the environment or that are preferred by a breeder, for example) and results in changes in the traits of a population or species.

To enlist personnel in a military force.

The process or act of selecting.

To recruit new employees, members, or students.

Something selected.

A newly engaged member of a military force, especially one of the lowest rank or grade.

A variety of items taken from a larger collection.

A new member of an organization.

A musical piece.

The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.

(databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.

A style or process of recruiting.

(linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ^Wp

The addition of new adult or breeding-age individuals (recruits) to a population.

(programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ^Wp

(physiology) The full aeration of a lung.

(algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.

(medicine) Opening of collapsed lung alveoli by means of controlled increase in transpulmonary pressure using mechanical ventilation. treatment strategy for ARDS

(historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ^Wp

(medicine) A physical condition of the inner ear that leads to reduced tolerance of loudness, commonly occurring in those with hearing loss due to cochlear damage.

(biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ^Wp

The act or process of recruiting; especially, the enlistment of men for an army.

(biology) natural selection

The act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)

The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.

The act of choosing or selecting;

An assortment of things from which a choice can be made;

The person or thing chosen or selected;

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

A passage selected from a larger work;