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 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

B

Bias Audit in Recruiting Boolean Search in Recruitment

C

Candidate Candidate engagement candidate experience candidate matching candidate rediscovery Candidate Relationship Management candidate slate

D

Data Privacy

E

Employer brand Executive Search

F

Fill Rate

G

GDPR in Recruiting Generative AI in Recruiting

H

Headcount Planning Headless ATS Human in the loop

I

Interview Debrief Interview scorecard

J

Job Change Alert job description

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

placement fee Position Specification

Q

Quality of Hire

R

Recruiter Copilot recruiter productivity Recruiting ai agent recruiting analytics Recruiting Operations recruiting process Recruitment Recruitment Agency recruitment analytics recruitment automation recruitment roi Recruitment Software resume parsing retained search

S

Skills-Based Hiring Skills-First Hiring staffing agency Structured Interview

T

talent intelligence Talent Mapping Time to fill Time to Hire

U

Upskilling

W

What is an AI Bias Audit? Workforce Intelligence

X

X-Ray Search

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