The study to investigate talent management: a panacea to improve employee recruitment and retention in multinational corporations in South East, Nigeria. The specific objectives sought to examine the effect of recruitment on profitability in the selected multinational corporations in South East, Nigeria, find out the effect of retention on productivity in the selected multinational corporations in South East, Nigeria and ascertain the effect of succession planning on market share in the selected multinational corporations in South East, Nigeria. The survey design was adopted for this study in which a structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from the target respondents who are employees of multinational corporations. This study employed both primary and secondary sources of data. A total of eleven thousand and seventy-nine (11079) employees of six companies (6) of South-East region of Nigeria constitute the population of the study. A total of three hundred and eighty-six (386) employees constitute the sample size of this study as stated or calculated above. The study adopted a simple random sampling method. The sample size was drawn from population. Simple regression was used to test the hypotheses of the study.