First, the meaning is different.
1. Application: Accept the employment.
When she applied for the job, she asked the examiner and was finally accepted.
2. Recruitment: Recruitment by announcement.
Example: My brother meets the recruitment requirements of a company.
Second, the emphasis is different.
1. application: the active behavior of individuals entering the required workplace.
After graduating from college, she applied for an accounting job in a foreign trade company.
2. Recruitment: The company actively recruits employees to the required workplace.
Example: We should strictly grasp the standards when recruiting talents, and we should not relax the standards.
Third, the sources are different.
1. Application: Three Kingdoms Kang's Theory of Destiny: "It applies to seventy countries, and all of them have their owners."
I accepted invitations from 70 countries and didn't get a monarch.
2. Recruitment: Han Liuxiang's "New preface and miscellaneous five": "(Zhuang Wang) recruited people from all directions and worked tirelessly all night."
Vernacular translation: [Zhuang Wang] So he recruited people from all over the world by way of announcement, and he worked tirelessly day and night.