Hiring glossary

52 terms, defined plainly. No filler.

• Adverse impact
• Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
• Behavioural interview
• Blind screening
• Boomerang hire
• Candidate experience
• Candidate persona
• Candidate rejection
• Compensation band
• Competency framework
• Cost of a bad hire
• Cost per hire
• Counter-offer
• Employer brand
• EU AI Act (and hiring)
• Four-fifths rule
• GDPR in hiring
• Hiring bias
• Hiring debrief
• Hiring scorecard
• Intake meeting
• Internal mobility
• Interview calibration
• Interview intelligence
• Interview loop
• Interview transcript
• Job description
• Leading question
• Levelling
• Longlist
• Offer acceptance rate
• Onboarding
• Panel interview
• Probation period
• Quality of hire
• Quiet hiring
• Rating anchors
• Recruitment marketing
• Reference check
• Requisition (req)
• Screening call
• Shortlist
• Situational interview
• Sourcing
• Structured interview
• Take-home assessment
• Talent pipeline
• Talk ratio
• Time to fill
• Time to hire
• Unstructured interview
• Work sample test