The Recruitment, Staffing, and Executive Search Glossary

Explore Recruiterflow’s glossary of essential terms across recruitment, executive search, business development, automation, and AI. Understand how these concepts connect to the workflows, capabilities, and technology modern search firms use to operate and grow.

A

Active Candidate Adverse Impact Agency Recruiting Agentic AI in recruiting AI Bias Audit AI candidate matching AI governance AI Interview Assistant AI interview note taker AI Native ATS AI powered ATS AI Recruiter AI recruiting AI recruitment CRM AI Screening Agent AI sourcing agent AI Transparency AI-Native Recruitment CRM Algorithmic Bias Applicant Applicant Tracking System ATS workflow automated email Automated Scheduling Automation Trigger

B

Background Check behavioral interview Bias Audit in Recruiting Bias in Hiring Board search Boolean Search in Recruitment Boolean Search String

C

Candidate Candidate Assessment Candidate Communication Candidate Consent Candidate engagement candidate experience Candidate Feedback Survey candidate journey candidate matching candidate nurture candidate outreach candidate ownership Candidate Pipeline Candidate Presentation candidate rediscovery Candidate Relationship Management Candidate response rate Candidate Satisfaction Candidate Screening candidate slate Candidate sourcing contact data enrichment Cost per hire

D

Data Privacy

E

Employer brand Executive Search

F

Fill Rate

G

GDPR in Recruiting Generative AI in Recruiting

H

Headcount Planning headhunting Headless ATS Human in the loop

I

Interview Debrief interview scheduling Interview scorecard

J

Job Change Alert job description job requisition

L

Large Language Model

M

Market Mapping Most Placeable Candidate

N

natural language processing Natural Language Search

O

off limits policy Offer Acceptance Offer acceptance rate

P

passive candidate placement fee Position Specification

Q

Quality of Hire

R

Recruiter Copilot recruiter productivity Recruiting ai agent recruiting analytics recruiting metrics Recruiting Operations recruiting process Recruitment Recruitment Agency recruitment analytics recruitment automation recruitment business development recruitment funnel recruitment marketing recruitment roi recruitment sequence Recruitment Software recruitment strategy resume parsing resume screening retained search

S

skills assessment Skills-Based Hiring Skills-First Hiring source of hire sourcing strategy staffing agency Structured Interview

T

talent community talent intelligence Talent Mapping talent pool Time to fill Time to Hire

U

Upskilling

W

Workforce Intelligence

X

X-Ray Search

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