The first five steps of the staffing process are :-

(1) Estimating the manpower requirement(A) : While designing the organisational structure, we undertake an analysis of the decisions and the decision-making levels, activities as well as relationship among them with a view to evolving the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the structure.

(2) Recruitment(B) : Recruitment may be defined as the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them to apply for jobs in the organisation.

(3) Selection(E) : Selection is the process of choosing from among the pool of the prospective job candidates developed at the stage of recruitment.

(4) Placement and Orientation (D) :  Orientation is introducing the selected employee to other employees and familiarising him with the rules and policies of the organisation. Placement refers to the employee occupying the position or post for which the person has been selected

(5) Training and Development(C) : Organisations have either inhouse training centers or have forged alliances with training and educational institutes to ensure continuing learning of their employees. 

This sequence typically reflects the logical order in which these steps are carried out in the staffing process.