HR Terms & Definitions For Recruiters & Hiring Managers
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Active Applicant Active Candidates Ad-Hoc Payment Ageism Agency Recruiters Agile Recruitment AI-Powered Recruitment Tools Analytics In Hiring Annual Quota Annuity API Applicable Large Employer Applicant Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Application Conversion Rate Appointment Letter Aptitude Testing Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment Assessment Centers Asynchronous Interview Attrition Rate At Will Employment Audit
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Baby Boomers Background Check Balance Score Card (BSC) Ban The Box BAU (Business as Usual) Before Tax Deduction Behavioral Interview Questions Behavioural Assessment Behavioural Interview Bell Curve Benefits Broker Bereavement Leave Biweekly Pay Blended Workforce Blind Hiring Bona Fide Occupational Qualification Bonus Boolean Search Boomerang Employee Boreout Brick-And-Mortar Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Buddy Punching Buddy System Bumping Business Promotion
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Campus Recruiting Candidate Engagement Candidate Experience Candidate Journey Candidate Personas Candidate Pipeline Candidate Profiling Candidate Relationship Building Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) Candidate Scoring Career Break Career Pages Career Path Ratio Career Plateaus Caucus CEO vs COO CESS Change Management Chatbot in Recruitment Churn Rate Clawback Clerical Work C-level Jobs Clopening Close of Business Code Of Ethics Common Law Employees Company Culture Compa Ratio Compensation Compensation Analytics Competence Based Interviews Competency Competency Framework Competitive Pay Compliance Report Comp Off Condition of Employment Conditions of Employment Confirmation Bias Conflict of Interest Contingent Worker Continuous Feedback Contract Labor Act Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) Cost-Per-Hire Cost to Company (CTC) Counteroffer Cover Letter Credit Voucher Crisis Management Cross-Training Staff Crowdfunding C-Suite Executive CTAs (Call to action) Cultural Fit Cultural Onboarding Culture Add Custom Career Pages Customer Journey Maps
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Earnings? EDLI Electronic Signature Emotion Heuristic Employee Benefits Administration Employee Grievance Employee Net Promoter Score Employee Referral Employee Referral Program Employee Relations Employee Retention Employee Satisfaction Survey Employee Self-Service Employee Shifts Employer Branding Employer NPS (Net Promoter Score) Employer of Choice Employer-Sponsored Immigration Employer Value Proposition (EVP) Employment Contract Equity Equity Theory E-Recruitment ESIC Executive Search Exempt Position Ex-gratia Exit Interviews External Stakeholders
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Halo Effect Hawthorne Effect HCM Headhunting Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Health Saving Account (HSA) Hiring Freeze Hiring Managers Hiring Process Hiring Strategy Hiring Workflow Holidays Horns Effect Hostile Work Environment House Rent Allowance (HRA) HR Analytics HR Audit HR Chatbots HR Consulting HR Generalist HRIS HR Outsourcing (HRO) Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) Human Resources Business Partners (HRBP) Human Resources (HR) Human Resources Outsourcing
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Implicit Biases Imputed Income In-Basket Technique Inbound Recruiting Incentive Pay Incentives Inclusion Inclusive Hiring Inclusive Workforce Independent Contractor Individual Coverage Health and Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA) Induction Informal Communication In-House Talent In-house Training Injunctive Relief InMail Insubordination Insurable Interest Insurance Intellectual Property Intern Internal Job Posting Internship Interview Panel ISO 9004 IT Declaration IT Recruiters ITR Filing
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Job Abandonment Job Analyzing Job Bidding Job Board Job Boards Job Classification Job Crafting Job Description Optimization Job Dissatisfaction Job Enrichment Job Evaluation Job Expansion Job Fair Job Hopping Job Poaching Job Promotion Job Reference Immunity Statutes Job Requisition Job Rotation Job Seekers Job Shadowing Job Sharing Job Specification Job Title Job Transfer Johari Window Journal Voucher Just Cause Termination
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Labor Force Labor Union Labour Welfare Fund Last In, First Out (LIFO) Lateral Hiring Lateral Moves Layoff Learning Management System (LMS) Leave Accrual Processing Leave Encashment Leave Policy Leave Restrictions Leaves Balance Leave Travel Allowance (LTA) Leave Type Legal Entity Levy Limited Purpose Flexible Loans LOP Reversal Loss Of Pay
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Objectives Objectives and Key Results (OKR) Offboarding Offer Letter Offer Letter Acceptance Rate Offer Management Ombudsman Onboarding On-Demand One-On-One Meeting One-Time Payments One-Way Video Interview On The Clock Operational Departments Opportunity Cost Oral Reprimand Organization Organizational Change Organizational Chart Organizational Culture Organization Tree Orientation Outplacement Overhead Overtime
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Panel Interview Passive Candidate Pay Band Pay Grade Payments of Wage Act Pay Register Payroll Outsourcing Payroll Reconciliation Peer Appraisal Penalization People Analytics Performance Bands Performance Planning Perks Poaching Pre-Boarding Predictive Analytics in Recruitment Pre-Employment Testing Presenteeism Probation Period Professional Fees Psychometric Test Pulse Survey Purple Unicorns
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Recruitment Analytics Recruitment as a Service (RaaS) Recruitment Automation Recruitment Budgeting Recruitment Candidate Feedback Recruitment Compliance Recruitment CRM Recruitment CRM Software Recruitment Event Recruitment Funnel Recruitment Funnel Effectiveness Recruitment KPI Recruitment Life Cycle Recruitment Marketing Recruitment Marketing Software Recruitment Metrics Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Recruitment Technology Redeployment Reduction in Force Rejection Religious Accommodation Remote Closing Remote Hiring Remote Interview Remote Onboarding Resignation Restricted Holiday Resume Parsing Retention Rate Retrenchment Retro Pay Reverse Coaching Reverse Recruitment Right to Manage Right to Work State Roles and Responsibilities Roster Management Rotational Training
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SaaS Sabbatical Salaried Employee Salary Breakup Salary Increment Satisfaction Rate Scorecard Screening Seasonal Employment Selection Ratio Self-Employed Health Insurance Deduction Sensitivity Training Severance Pay Short Leave Shortlisting Shrinkage Situational Leadership Skill Gap Analysis Skill Matrix Smart Goals Social HR Social Media Background Screening Social Media Recruiting Social Recruiting Soft Skills vs Hard Skills Source of Hire Sourcing Sourcing Channel Effectiveness Staffing Statutory Employee Statutory Leave Stipend Strategic Hiring Subordinates Succession Planning Summary Dismissal of Employment System Changeover Systemic Discrimination
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Talent Acquisition Talent Intelligence Talent Mapping Talent Mobility Talent Pipeline Talent Pool Talent Retention Tangible Rewards Tax Regime Tech Recruitment Telecommuting Temp to Hire Text Recruitment Total Labour Cost Total Quality Management Total Remuneration Training Needs Analysis Two-Way Video Interview
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