招聘

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 招聘 is read しょうへい. It means inviting or recruiting a particular person for a professional role.
• Basic usage: It covers bringing an overseas researcher in as a visiting professor and negotiating to recruit a conductor.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Role marked by として
  • 客員教授として招聘した means inviting the researcher to serve in the role of visiting professor.
• Negotiating recruitment
  • 指揮者の招聘に向けて shows that negotiations began with recruiting a conductor as the goal.