recruit, human resources, lay off, laid-off

Just as Michigan is scrambling to retrain laid-off auto workers, New York City officials have come up with a plan to find new work for the unemployed of its core industry: investment banking.

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Google to Lay Off 100 Recruiters
Wall Street Journal - USA
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Google Inc. said it is laying off 100 recruiters and is closing some engineering offices, as the downturn continues to take its ...


human resources 是1961年新詞，為以往的”人事部”等的美化。

“……我昨天接到”中華民國九十六年七月號43卷7期”，一讀封面的「當月話題」等之英文，簡直可以說啼笑皆非，幾乎每篇的都可以提出討論。

（只談一些）

最嚴重的人力資源品質＝Quality of Human Source

8 篇中七篇用 human resource【應該是 human resources】；一篇用 human source（這詞我從來沒讀過）……”



“……主題的 benchmarking，起碼應參考 Juran Quality Handbook 相關的。譬如說human resources ，最近兩版都有好文。我們要談自己切題（台灣狀況 -觀點）的，不過" 品質不可以與它們有「天壤之別」….”


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human resources 都是複數 (pl.n. ) 不過它接的動詞分單數和複數，其human resources 意義不同：

1. (used with a pl. verb) The persons employed in a business or organization; personnel. 動詞複數，其human resources 意義為公司雇用的人
2. (used with a sing. verb) The field of personnel recruitment and management.動詞分單數，其human resources 意義為「人力資源部」

Definition

recruit Show phonetics
verb [T]
to persuade someone to work for a company or become a new member of an organization, especially the army:
Charities such as Oxfam are always trying to recruit volunteers to help in their work.
Even young boys are now being recruited into the army.
an army recruiting centre/officer

recruit Show phonetics
noun [C]
a new member of an organization, especially the army:
Raw recruits (= completely new soldiers) were trained for six months and then sent to the war front.

recruitment Show phonetics
noun [U]
The recession has forced a lot of companies to cut down on graduate recruitment.
It's all part of a recruitment drive intended to increase the party's falling numbers.

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layoff, lay-off Show phonetics
noun
1 [C often plural] when someone stops employing someone, sometimes temporarily, because there is no money to pay them or because there is no work for them:
The recent economic crisis has led to massive layoffs.

2 [C usually singular] a period when someone is not working:
Foster is playing again after a six-week layoff due to injury.

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lay sb off (NOT EMPLOY) phrasal verb [M often passive]
to stop employing someone, usually because there is no work for them to do:
Because of falling orders, the company has been forced to lay off several hundred workers.