The Job Journal Guide To Recruiter Jargon
If you’re doing the LinkedIn thing right, whether you like it or not, you’ll be getting calls from recruiters.?
And if you’re not picking up the phone, then they’ll be sliding into your DM’s.?
And if they’re not doing that, then you’ll definitely be seeing a whole bunch of recruitment related posts in your newsfeed…you lucky, lucky people.?
Like any profession (why are you laughing?) recruiters have their own language and contrary to what you might believe, it’s not just different names for cocaine.?
That being the case, this week I’ve created this handy glossary of recruitment jargon so you can understand what the hell they’re on about.
Exciting opportunity
Literally any job regardless of whether it’s exciting or not.
Competitive salary
A salary so competitive the client has asked us not to tell you what it is.
Urgent requirement
Our client are shit at planning/ someone we placed fucked up and we need a backfill.
Candidate
A person.
Top Talent
Also a?person (preferably one who doesn’t refer to themselves as ‘Top Talent’)
Passive candidate
A person, in or out of work, who says they’re not looking for a job but they’re not NOT looking for job.
Active candidate
A person, in or out of work, who is most definitely looking for a job.?
Deal
A person getting a job.
Rebate
Money owed to a client if someone gets a job and fucks up/ leaves.
PSL-Preferred Supplier List
A bunch of recruitment agencies.
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MSP-Managed Services Provider
A big recruitment agency managing a bunch of other recruitment agencies; can also recruit for the client.
Neutral Vendor
A big recruitment agency managing a bunch of other recruitment agencies; can’t recruit for the client.
Head Hunter
Posh recruiter.
Executive Search
Posh recruitment.
JD/ Job Description/ Spec
Boring piece of copy covering the remit and responsibilities of a job.
Job Ad/ Job Advert
A less boring but most of the time still boring piece of copy that should make you want to read the JD.
ATS/ Applicant Track System
Where your CV and contact information lives. (Protected by robots apparently)
EVP/ Employee Value Proposition
What a business does to draw you in and keep you there.
Retention
What businesses who invest in their EVP get.
Attrition
What businesses who don’t focus on their EVP get...
I could go on but I’m conscious many of you probably haven’t even read this far. If you have (Mum) thanks for sticking around.?
Let me know if there’s anything else you wanted added to my handy list ??
The End.
Integration Lead | Project Manager | PMO | Programme Manager
3 个月How John Hawker? - just how...? ??
CEO, Founder @ Change Rebellion | Change & Transformation | Lover of all things cheese
3 个月I only have one recruiter calling me and sliding into my DM’s and you know I don’t mind ??
Change and Transformation Leader - Specialist in project / programme management and business change - Balancing technical, business and user perspectives for adoptable solutions and successful outcomes.
3 个月Very useful, Took me a while when I started contracting to work out how to focus my time, build my network and work with recruiters. It is very time consuming though I must say