Glossary

AI Artificial Intelligence

Applicant Tracking track the application process

ASP Application Service Provider

ATS Applicant Tracking System

Candidate Applicant

CEO Chief Executive Officer

CFO Chief Financial Officer

Client Server The data processing interaction in which a program at one site (the client) sends a request to a program at another site (the server) and awaits a response

Clone A replica

Cold Fusion Web application development tool that allows developers to build dynamic data-driven applications

Consultant A person who manages the recruitment process

CRM Client Relationship Management Module

CV Curriculum Vitae (Resume)

Database Referral Referred automatically by the database

Division a subset of an organization

Domain a group of networked computers that share a common communication address

FTP File Transfer Protocol

HTML A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web

iFrame a floating frame inserted within a Web page which is not bound to the side of a browser window

Indexed Something that serves to guide, point out, or otherwise facilitate reference

IP (Internet Protocol address) The term "IP" by itself typically refers to "IP address," the four-element number with three decimal points. "What's your IP?" is asking for your IP address, the numeric identification of every node in an IP network

IVR Interactive Voice Recognition

Job Ad Document that is published to advertise an open job position

Job Board Place were (Internet) jobs ads are displayed

Job Order Job Specific document that is the pre-curser to a Job Ad

Job Posting The process of placing an Ad onto a job board

Keyword Search A feature, that allows you to search a document for specific words that might be contained within the doc.

Link out a link that will take you to another webpage

Office a subset of a division

Recruiter A person who managers the recruitment Assignments

Resume a document that covers a persons professional career

ROI Return on Investment

RPO Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Screening Questions a set of questions used on a job application form that allows the reviewer to make a quick suitability assessment of the applicant

Shortlist a list of candidates that are more suited to a position than majority of the applicants

Source origin of candidates application

Splash Screen An introductory screen displayed by an application after it is loaded

SQL Database Pronounced "S-Q-L" or "see-quill," a language used to interrogate and process data in a relational database

Sub Domain lower-level component of a domain name. For example, www.mycompany.com and support.mycompany.com are subdomains of mycompany.com

Talent Pool Resume database

Traffic Lights System used within Turbo that monitors applicants through the recruitment process

UI User Interface

URL the address of a web page on the world wide web

Verity A third party document search engine which RA apply to resumes

Web Service Web-based applications that dynamically interact with other Web applications using open standards that include XML, UDDI and SOAP. Such applications typically run behind the scenes, one program "talking to" another (server to server).