The difference between hiring and recruiting

Bob wonders if there's a difference. I'm pretty sure there is.

Hiring is what you do when you let the world know that you're accepting applications from people looking for a job.

Recruiting is the act of finding the very best person for a job and persuading them to stop doing what they're doing and come join you.

Hiring is easy and fast and is basically a retail operation.

Recruiting is artful and slow and is essentially a direct marketing effort.

Recruiting raises the bar because it demands you have a job worth quitting for. The recruiter doesn't solve an urgent problem for the person being recruited, in fact, they create one. That person already has a job (hence no problem). The problem being created is that until they change over to your job, they'll be unhappy.

Asghar Naqvi (Haider) - Telecom HR

HR- Resourcing (Telecom Recruitment) at Shramik Power Job Pvt. Ltd.

September 2009 – Present ( 5 months)

Working as a Telecom Recruitment (PAN India).
Sales & Marketing (Channel Sales, Distribution, Corporate Sales) Technical (RF, OSS/BSS, OMCR, Switch, Transmission, Network)

EXE. HR Consulting at Brook Software Systems Pvt. Ltd.

July 2008 – September 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Sr. Exe at Tusthi Executive Access And Consultants

December 2007 – July 2008 ( 8 months)

Exe Recruitment at BMCS (WMS Pvt. Ltd.)

March 2006 – December 2007 (1 year 10 months)

July 2005- Feb 2006 (Part Time) - Backend work & Trainee
Mar 2006 – Nov 2007 (Full Time) - IT/NonIT Recruiter