HR & Recruitment Glossary
| Unlock the Language of Hiring

Demystifying Hiring, HR, and Remote Work-One Term at a Time.

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A

Ad-Hoc Payment

Analytics in Hiring

Annualized Attrition Rate

Applicant

Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Asynchronous interview

B

Backfill

Background Screening

Base Salary

Bilingual Talent

Blind Hiring

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

C

Candidate

Candidate Centric Recruiting

Candidate Disposition

Candidate Experience

Candidate Pipeline

Candidate Portal

Candidates Per Hire

Capability Assessment Tool

Co-Employment

Cognitive Ability Test

Cold Calling in Recruitment

Compensation Strategy

Conditions of Employment

Contingency Recruiting

Contingent Worker

Contract to Hire

Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)

Cost Per Hire

Cross-Cultural Communication

Cultural Discrimination

Cultural Fit

D

Data Driven Recruitment

Desk Audit

Direct Hire

Distributed Team

Diversity Hiring

DOE (Depending on Experience)

Domain Skills

E

E-Recruitment

Employee Contract

Employee Exit Survey

Employee Management Software

Employee Offboarding

Employee Retention

Employee Turnover

Employee Turnover Rate

Employee Type

Employer of Record (EOR)

F

Flexible Workplace

Formal Communication

Fresher Hiring

Full Cycle Recruiting

Functional Job Analysis

G

H

Headhunter

High Volume Hiring

Hiring Journey

Hiring Process

Hiring Strategy

Hiring Workflow

HR Compliance

HR Outsourcing

I

In-Basket Technique

Inbound Recruiting

Internal Hiring

Internal Job Posting

Interpersonal Skills

Interview Scheduling

IT Recruiter

J

Job Analysis

Job Classification

Job Description

Job Ranking

Job Role

Job Title

K

Key Responsibility Areas (KRA)

KSA (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

L

Lateral Hiring

Legal Entity

M

Marketing Recruitment Agency

Matching and Hiring Platform

N

Nearshoring

Negligent Hiring

O

Offboarding

Offer Letter

Offshoring

Onboarding

Outsourcing

P

Payroll

Payroll Outsourcing

Pre-Employment Testing

Pre-Recorded Video Interview

Pre-Screening

Professional Employer Organization (PEO)

Professional References

Project-Based Employment

Psychometric Test

Purple Squirrel

Purple Unicorn

Q

Quality of Hire

R

Recruiting

Recruiting Metrics

Recruitment Funnel Effectiveness

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Reference Check

Remote Employee

Remote Interview

Remote Workforce

Retention Rate

Retention Strategy

S

Salary Benchmarking

Screening

Second-Chance Hiring

Shortlisting

Skill Matrix

Skill Test

Skills Gap

Social Media Background Screening

Social Media Recruiting

Source of Hire

Sourcing

Split Placement

Staffing

Staffing Agency

Strategic Hiring

Structured Interview

T

Talent

Talent Acquisition

Talent Pipeline

Talent Pool

Talent Retention

Targeted Recruiting

Telecommuting

Termination Letter

Time to Hire

Time Tracking

Training and Development

Transferable Skills

Turnover Costs

U

Untapped Talent

V

Video Interview

Virtual Assistant

Virtual Employee

Virtual HR

Virtual Interview

Virtual Meeting

Voluntary Turnover Rate

W

What is Fair Chance Hiring

Work Ethics

Work From Home (WFH)

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Y

Z