Read the following article and choose the best answer. Recruitment Employees who leave a company are not always replaced. Sometimes the company examines the job description for the post, and decides that it no longer needs to be filled. On other occasions the company will replace the person who resigns with an internal candidate who can be promoted (or moved sideways) to the job. Or it will advertise the position in newspapers or trade journals, or engage an employment agency to do so. For junior management positions, employers occasionally recruit by giving presentations and holding interviews in universities, colleges and business schools. For senior positions, companies sometimes use the services of a firm of head hunters, who already have the details of promising managers. People looking for work or wanting to change their job generally read the vacancies advertised in newspapers. To reply to an advertisement is to apply for a job; you become an applicant or a candidate. You write an application, or fill in the company’s application form, and send it, along with your curriculum vitae or résumé. You are often asked to give the names of two people who are prepared to write a reference for you. If you have the right qualifications and abilities, you might be short-listed, i.e. selected to attend an interview. It is not uncommon for the personnel department or the managers responsible for a particular post to spend eighty or more working hours on the recruitment of a single member of staff. However, the time is well-spent if the company appoints the right person for the job.