What is the difference between recruitment and employment?

A recruitment matches up people wanting work with employers with vacancies. Recruitment do not employ these workers. The employer pays the workers direct and pays the agency a fee for finding the employee.

Employment employ workers and then hire them out to clients. A typical example would be a temp secretarial agency. The workers are employed, salary paid and tax deducted by the employment agency, not by the client for whom the carry out the work. The client pays the agency and not the worker for the work carried out.