HR & Workplace Buzzwords
This term refers to the practice of not overloading Monday activities to prevent employee burnout.
What are Bare Minimum Mondays?
This general term refers to an area of business, often implying production, like the "automotive" one.
What is Industry?
This adjective means fake or false, often used to describe something man-made that imitates nature.
What is Artificial?
When you cause something to go faster, you do this to it.
What is Accelerate?
When you give credit for something bad to someone or something else, you do this.
What is to Put/Lay the Blame on someone or something?
Companies engage in this practice when they use existing applicant data to fill future roles, rather than seeking new external candidates.
What is Candidate Rediscovery / Internal Hiring?
This term is often used interchangeably with "industry" and describes a specific segment of the economy, such as the "technology" one.
What is Sector?
This adjective, more formal than "huge," describes something of immense size or extent.
What is Tremendous?
If you spoil or impair the quality or appearance of something, you do this to it.
What is to Mar?
If someone or something has a possibility of success, they stand this.
What is to Stand a Chance?
This "fruit" idiom describes tasks that are easy to accomplish and offer quick wins.
What is Low Hanging Fruit?
This word describes a specific area within a business or industry, for example, "the medical_____."
What is Field?
If a performance or effort is uninspired or dull, it can be described with this "lacking shine" adjective.
What is Lackluster?
To stop or cause progress to cease, you do this, like an engine seizing up.
What is to Stall?
When you depend on something or someone too heavily, you do this to them.
What is to Take for Granted?
Often discussed in modern workplaces, this word signifies openness, honesty, and fairness, encompassing kindness, equity, and inclusion.
What is Transparency?
When a business decides to change its core strategy or direction, it is said to do this, like a dancer turning on one point.
What is to Pivot?
This adjective describes a moment in time that is crucial or decisive.
What is Critical?
To direct something in a certain way, like a car with a steering wheel, you do this.
What is to Steer?
This idiom means to stay away from something, guiding yourself around it.
What is to Steer Clear of Something?
This type of informal interview is conducted with current employees to understand why they choose to stay with the company.
What is a Stay Interview / Stay Chat?
This metaphoric phrase means to leave a company, often suddenly, like a sailor abandoning a vessel.
What is to Jump Ship?
This adverb describes something that is out of balance, either too large or too small in comparison to something else.
What is Disproportionately?
This action means to fail to properly care for something or someone.
What is to Neglect?
This phrase means to facilitate a change or create the circumstances for something to happen.
What is to Pave the Way?