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Recruitment Guide: Category Glossary

Recruitment Guide: Category Glossary

 

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Applicant tracking technology

  • Applicant
  • Applicant files
  • Applicant flow data
  • Applicant flow log
  • Applicant pool
  • Applicant tracking

Benefits and healthcare

  • 401(K)
  • Benefits
  • Cafeteria plan
  • Domestic partner benefits
  • Fully insured plan
  • Family status change
  • Flexible benefit plan
  • Fringe benefit
  • Health care flexible spending account (FSA)
  • Health savings accounts (HSA)
  • Indirect costs
  • Individual retirement account
  • Long-term care insurance
  • Medicare
  • Money purchase plan
  • Open enrollment period
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Premium only plan (POP)
  • Prescription drug benefits
  • Profit sharing plan

Compensation and wages

  • Back pay
  • Bonus plan
  • Direct compensation
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Front pay
  • Hazard pay
  • Living wage
  • Incentive pay
  • Incentive pay plan
  • Incentive stock option
  • Mean wage
  • Median wage
  • Minimum wage
  • Overtime
  • Pay adjustment
  • Pay grades
  • Pay range
  • Payroll records
  • Premium pay
  • Prevailing wage
  • Retention bonus
  • Salary compression
  • Salary grade
  • Salary range
  • Wage and salary administration
  • Wage and salary survey
  • Wage curve
  • Wage differential
  • Wage gap
  • Wage garnishment
  • Wage structure

Compliance

  • Compliance
  • Compliance officer
  • Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP)

Disability

  • Disability
  • Disability management
  • Disabled individual
  • Disabled veteran
  • Qualified disabled person
  • Short-term disability
  • Special disabled veteran

Hiring

  • Background check/investigation
  • Consumer credit report
  • Fitness for duty
  • Job offer letter
  • Probation
  • Probationary period
  • Relocation assistance
  • Unlawful employment practice

Human resources

  • After-acquired evidence
  • Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
  • Anti-Nepotism Policy
  • Attrition
  • Behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)
  • Bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ)
  • Compensatory time-off plan
  • Compressed workweek
  • Conciliation agreement
  • Condition of employment
  • Conflict of interest
  • Demotion
  • Disciplinary action
  • Disciplinary layoff
  • Downgrading
  • Downshifting
  • Drug testing
  • Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
  • Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
  • Employer
  • Employer Information Report EEO-1
  • Employment agreement/contract
  • Employment-at-will
  • Employment practice
  • Employment practices liability audit
  • Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI)
  • Employment Visas
  • Executive development
  • Fetal protection policy
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Flextime
  • Full-time equivalent (FTE)
  • Gag clause
  • Green Card
  • Human resource auditing
  • Human resource development
  • Human resource management
  • Human resource planning
  • Human resources
  • Human resource metrics
  • Implied contract
  • Informed consent
  • Injunction
  • Insubordination
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
  • Labor certification
  • Labor law posting
  • Layoff
  • Material safety data sheet (MSDS)
  • Mission statement
  • Mitigation
  • Multi-employer plan
  • Occupational disease
  • Ombudsperson
  • Oral reprimand
  • Plan administrator
  • Policy
  • Policy/procedures manual
  • Prepaid Group Legal Plan
  • Pre-tax contributions
  • Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
  • Reprimand
  • Restructuring
  • Retaliatory discharge
  • Retraining
  • Right-to-know
  • Simple Plan
  • Social Security
  • Social Security card
  • Stakeholder
  • Unsafe acts
  • Unsafe conditions
  • Vacation Buy-Back plan
  • Virtual HR
  • Vision statement
  • Voluntary reduction in hours
  • Volunteerism

Human resources technology

  • Human resource information system (HRIS)
  • Application service provider (ASP)
  • Human resource management system

Interviewing

  • Behavioral-based interview
  • Exit interview
  • Field Interview
  • Group Interview
  • Interview
  • Interview to offer ratio

Jobs and job posting

  • Job accommodation network (JAN)
  • Job aids
  • Job analysis
  • Job bank
  • Job classification
  • Job codes
  • Job displacement
  • Job description
  • Job grade
  • Job posting
  • Job title
  • Minimum qualifications

Legal

  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990
  • Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
  • Arbitration
  • Attorney
  • Breach of contract
  • Burden of proof
  • Child-labor law
  • Confidentiality agreement
  • Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985
  • Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968
  • Disqualifying income
  • Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988
  • Employment Torts
  • Equal Pay Act of 1963
  • Executive order
  • Executive Order 11246 of 1965
  • Expedited arbitration
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) of 1969
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938
  • Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966
  • Garnishment
  • Glass Ceiling Act of 1991
  • Hazard Communication Standard of 1988
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996
  • Illegal immigrant/alien
  • Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986
  • Intellectual property
  • Libel
  • Mandatory Retirement Age Law of 1978
  • Mediation
  • Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) of 1996
  • Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) of 1990
  • Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970
  • Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978
  • Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
  • Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO)
  • Rehabilitation Act of 1973
  • Right-to-sue Letter
  • Right-to-work
  • Safe harbor regulations
  • Statute of limitation
  • Waiver
  • Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989
  • Workers Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

Organizations

  • Department of Labor (DOL)
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  • Baldridge National Quality Award

Recruiting

  • Affirmative action (AA)
  • Affirmative action clauses
  • Affirmative action plan (Aap)
  • Invitation to self-identify
  • Recruitment
  • Reference checking

Running a business

  • Advisory committee
  • Bankruptcy
  • Caucus
  • Centralization
  • Concurrent validity
  • Consideration
  • Corporate citizenship (Corporate social responsibility)
  • Consideration
  • Damages
  • Defamation
  • Disclosure
  • Good-faith bargaining
  • Labor force
  • Labor-management contract
  • Median
  • Merger
  • Minority business enterprise
  • Proprietary information
  • Shareholder

Skills

  • Competencies
  • Core competencies
  • Core work activities
  • Knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAS)
  • Skill
  • Skill-based pay
  • Skill gap
  • Skills inventory
  • Skills training
  • Soft skills

Sourcing

  • Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)

Staffing

  • Executive search firm
  • Employment agency
  • Flexible staffing
  • Staffing
  • Staffing metrics

Types of leave

  • Bereavement leave
  • Paid leave bank
  • Parental leave
  • Paternity leave
  • Sick leave
  • Voluntary leave/layoff

Types of workers and employment

  • Apprenticeship
  • At-will employment
  • Blue collar workers
  • Casual employment
  • Co-employment
  • Competency-based pay
  • Contingent worker
  • Contractor
  • Consultant
  • Displaced workers
  • Executive compensation
  • Exempt employees
  • Expatriate
  • Fair representation
  • Home-based worker
  • Independent contractor
  • Indirect compensation
  • Indirect labor
  • Joint employment
  • Knowledge worker
  • Moonlighting
  • Nontraditional employment
  • Part-time employee
  • Regular full/part-time employee
  • Remote employees
  • Remote managers
  • Staff leasing
  • Union
  • Union shop
  • Unretirement
  • Unskilled worker
  • Virtual mentoring
  • Virtual office/workplace

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