To overcome these limitations, we define enterprise recruitment pattern that integrates both structural and
operational aspects of the recruitment system in a comprehensive way to support the design of ERAs as a whole.
When solving a recruitment problem, recruitment analysts could use enterprise recruitment patterns in order to select
a global recruitment strategy, providing optimal and proven recruiting guidelines and so standardize the design and
building of the ERA for that problem. To enable the reuse of this pattern, we base the construction of it on a
conceptual model already developed7. The model was built using Checkland’s SSM8 to capture the different
worldviews (systems) of recruitment and develop root definitions. The definitions, subsequent analyses, and
construction of model were drawn from different case studies of recruitment in defense and education. In this paper,
we refined this model and called the Problem-Oriented Conceptual Model to represent the ERA, and to describe and
identify a set of problems that can be solved by enterprise recruitment patterns. To define enterprise recruitment
patterns, a template that is well-known and widespread is used9. This specific template is used to define and
document the pattern which associated with the ERA elements. The template provided here is the main focus for
defining the enterprise recruitment pattern. Therefore, sections of this template are defined with the aim of
incorporating the ERAs elements. We also give insights into the application of this template through the recruitment
process in a military environment