100 Words to Use Instead of “Hire”

100 Words to Use Instead of

No. Item Definition
1. acquire get someone’s services or labor
2. add include as an employee
3. admit accept into a group or role
4. appoint officially give someone a job
5. arrange for organize to get services
6. assign give someone a job role
7. authorize give official permission to work
8. award a contract to give a job contract to
9. book arrange for services
10. bring aboard add as staff
11. bring in recruit and employ
12. bring into employ employ someone
13. bring into employment employ someone
14. bring into service put to work
15. bring into staff add to staff
16. bring on add someone to the team
17. call in bring in to work
18. charter hire for a specific service
19. choose pick for employment
20. commission authorize to do work
21. consign entrust work or duties to
22. contract engage under a contract
23. depute appoint to act on your behalf
24. designate officially assign a role
25. dispatch send someone to do a job
26. draft select to serve or work
27. employ give someone a job
28. engage arrange to use someone’s services
29. enlist persuade someone to join work
30. fill a position put someone into a vacancy
31. fill a role place someone in a role
32. fill a vacancy put someone into an opening
33. fill an opening put someone into an opening
34. freelance use a freelancer for work
35. get obtain someone’s help or services
36. give a job to employ someone
37. give employment to employ someone
38. give work to employ someone for tasks
39. handpick choose carefully for a job
40. headhunt recruit actively for a role
41. increase staffing employ more people
42. induct formally bring into a position
43. install formally put into a position
44. land successfully get someone to join
45. line up arrange to have someone work
46. make a placement place someone in a job
47. make an appointment officially assign a job
48. make an offer to offer someone a job
49. name appoint to a position
50. nominate propose for a position
51. obtain the services of get someone to work for you
52. offer a job to propose employment to someone
53. offer employment to propose employment to someone
54. onboard bring into a job and orient
55. outsource hire outside help to do work
56. pick up take on as a worker
57. place put someone into a job
58. procure the services of arrange to get someone’s services
59. put in office install into an office
60. put in place install in a role
61. put in position assign to a position
62. put in post assign to a position
63. put on staff add as staff
64. put on the payroll add as a paid employee
65. put to work employ for tasks
66. recruit find and take on staff
67. retain keep someone for ongoing work
68. schedule arrange to use services
69. second assign temporarily to another role
70. secure the services of successfully obtain someone’s services
71. select choose for employment
72. sign contract someone to work
73. snag quickly secure someone’s services
74. staff provide workers for a role
75. subcontract hire another party to do work
76. take aboard bring into an organization
77. take in accept as an employee
78. take into employ employ someone
79. take into employment employ someone
80. take into one’s service employ someone
81. take into service engage for work or duty
82. take into staff add to staff
83. take on employ or accept as staff
84. under contract Engage someone via a contract.
85. understudy Engage as a backup performer.
86. undertake Take on work or a role.
87. unload work onto Assign work to someone else.
88. upskill and place Train then place into a role.
89. use employ someone’s services
90. utilize make use of someone’s services
91. vendor Contract out work to a supplier.
92. vest with a role Give someone a role or office.
93. wage Employ someone for wages.
94. welcome aboard Bring someone onto the team.
95. win over Persuade someone to join you.
96. work with Engage someone to collaborate.
97. write a contract with Engage someone by contract.
98. yield work to Hand work over to someone.
99. yoke to the task Put someone to work on it.
100. zone in and recruit Focus on and recruit someone.