Recruitment is the process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate (from within or outside of an organization) for a job opening in a timely and cost-effective manner. The recruitment process includes analyzing the requirements of a job, attracting employees to that job, screening and selecting applicants, hiring, and integrating the new employee into the organization.

There are several important stages that most organizations use when recruiting employees. The recruitment stages include:

• Job analysis: The human resources representative needs to review and analyze what they need the new employee to do in the open position. From that analysis, the representative needs to build a job description, set minimum qualifications, and define a salary range.