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Employees performance are critical to organization overall success. Organization may secure abundant physical resources without the efficient inputs of its human resources (employees) all other resources will be inactive. Employees are regarded as vital resources owing to their significance role in organization performance. This study therefore appraises the effect of recruitment and selection and employment security on employees’ performance in the Nigerian Insurance Industry. The essence of the study is to ascertain the extent/degree of influence the above constructs exerts on employees’ intention to perform their assigned duties. The Cross-sectional survey design was adopted, questionnaire was used to elicit responses from 350 respondents, both descriptive and inferential techniques were used for data analysis and tests of hypotheses were at 0.05 significance level. Finding revealed a positively significant relationship between recruitment and selection and employees’ performance intention. Result also established that employment security has a strong positive/significant relationship with employees’ performance intention. That’s, recruitment, selection and employment security accounts for a positive attitudinal changes of employees in the Insurance firm. This study assessed the impact of recruitment and selection and employment security on employees’ performance intention in the Nigerian insurance sector, proving strong empirical insight into the factors that contribute to organization workforce performance. Secondly, it is observed that studies that assessed the factors highlighted in this study are scarce. This study contributes to knowledge by being one of the single pioneer studies of these HRM practices in the Nigerian Insurance sector.