The recruitment of assistance is ubiquitous in everyday life and is central to the management of social cohesion and solidarity in social interaction. Although the concept of recruitment embraces not only the solicitation and elicitation of assistance but also its provision, because it emerged out of research on requesting, studies of recruitment have thus far focused on methods employed by Self that recruit the assistance of Other. The methods employed by Other – the diverse ways in which one person comes to help another – have yet to be fully examined. This article extends the analysis of recruitment to include methods of assistance employed by Other. Such methods attend and respond to Self's trouble, enact Other's participation in its remediation, and embody Other's recruitment into Self's course of action. The methods span from visible displays of attention and availability and methods that index or formulate Self's trouble, to those that articulate possible solutions or intervene directly into Self's course of action. It is argued that the methods of recruitment and assistance form a coherent social organization of alternative methods employed by Self and Other for the management of troubles, difficulties, and needs in the realization of practical courses of action.

募集援助在日常生活中无处不在，对于管理社会凝聚力和社会互动中的团结至关重要。尽管招聘的概念不仅包含对协助的征求和诱导，而且还包括其提供，但由于它是从请求研究中衍生出来的，因此到目前为止，招聘研究一直侧重于Self所采用的招募他人协助的方法。“他人”所采用的方法（一个人来帮助另一个人的各种方式）尚未得到充分研究。本文扩展了对招聘的分析，以包括“他人”所采用的协助方法。这样的方法会参与并应对Self的麻烦，促使他人参与其补救措施，并体现将Other招募到Self的行动过程中。这些方法从可见的注意力和可用性显示，以及索引或制定Self麻烦的方法，到阐明可能的解决方案或直接干预Self行动过程的方法。有人认为，征聘和协助的方法形成了一个由自我和他人使用的替代方法的连贯的社会组织，这些替代方法是自我管理和其他方法在实现实际行动过程中所遇到的麻烦，困难和需求的管理。