searching for someone; looking for a person
General term for looking for a person, often a missing person or someone whose whereabouts are unknown.
The police are asking for cooperation in searching for the person.
He walked around town looking for the person.
recruitment; scouting; searching for a candidate
Only when written 人探し
Used when looking for a suitable person for a job, role, or team; often implies active scouting or headhunting.
We started looking for people for the new project.
The company is focusing on scouting talented engineers.
Standard kanji spelling for both senses.
Variant kanji spelling; 捜す is often used for searching for missing persons or things.
Compound of 人 (ひと, 'person') and 探し (さがし, the continuative form of 探す, 'to search').