Recruiting Terms
An introductory gathering between a Recruiter and a Hiring Manager that serves as the first part of the collaboration process when there is a new position. This allows both team members to be on the same page in understanding the hiring process and who the preferred candidates are.
Intake Meeting
The earliest formal recruitment practices can be traced as far back as 2686 B.C. to this ancient civilization of pyramids during the period known as the Old Kingdom. Though most professions were hereditary and passed down through families, military roles were not, and recruitment became a formal requirement for Pharaohs.
Egypt
In Gurugram, just southwest of New Delhi, and in other parts of this country, companies use astrology and are consulting astrologers to recruit employees. Astrologers are even a part of company HR teams as they try to match an applicant's horoscope with that of the company to determine if there is a fit. Virgo and Capricorn are seen as hard-working and serious types with Aries making good leaders and Geminis shining as good communicators.
India
Steve Martin, 1986 - "you have a talent for causing things pain. People will pay you to be inhumane. Your temperament's wrong for priesthood, and teaching would suit you still less. Be a dentist. You'll be a success!"
Little Shop of Horrors
The use of this type of interviewing has accelerated with the rise of remote work, and is expected to continue into 2024 with more sophisticated tools that may even incorporate AI for candidate assessment that analyzes facial expressions, tone of voice, and other non-verbal cues.
Video Interviews
This describes how a job candidate feels when moving through an organization's hiring process from start to finish, and how they may perceive the organization based on all their interactions.
Candidate Experience
Though one of the most outstanding geniuses in the history of technology with patents for over a thousand inventions, it may come as a surprise that the "Wizard of Menlo Park" also invented the modern job interview. As the 1920's produced more college-educated job seekers than years prior this man created a test for prospective employees in the form of questions of general knowledge.
Thomas Edison
In this populous and vast East Asian country the concept of guanxi (connections), the importance of personal relationships in business and recruitment, has a deep meaning and is a fundamental aspect of the professional world. Business meetings and interviews may start with pleasantries such as tea and conversation.
China
Irving Berlin's classic, 1950 - "there's no business like show business like no business I know. Everything about it is appealing. Nowhere could you have that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow."
Annie Get Your Gun
This federal government agency established in 1958 hosts an annual Space Apps Challenge inviting participants from around the world to collaborate on projects related to space exploration and technology, which serves as a platform for identifying potential talent and building a recruitment pipeline.
NASA
Though it sounds like a professional from "The Land Down Under" this type of employee is one who had left a company and comes back to be rehired at a later point whether in the same position or a new one.
Boomerang Employee
The world's first recorded resume is said to be over 500 years old, and was created by this illustrious figure of the Renaissance who is known in part for his various inventions among other achievements. While looking for work in the city as a designer or sculptor in 1482 he sent a letter to the Duke of Milan outlining his many skills. And thus, the resume was born.
Leonardo da Vinci
Though not far from us geographically it is not uncommon for interviewers in this North American country to ask personal questions many of which would be prohibited by law in the United States. With family being one of the most important aspects of life in their culture candidates should be prepared for questions like "when are you planning to have kids?" and "can you share a little bit about your upbringing and how it has shaped your relationship with your family today?" It is not unusual for family members to accompany candidates to job interviews where employers will speak with them too.
Mexico
Tim Curry, 1996 - "though you could be a doctor or perhaps a financier, why not consider a more challenging career? True friendship and adventure are what we can't live without, and when you're a Professional Pirate that's what the jobs about."
Muppet Treasure Island
Studies have found the most common day for a candidate to apply for a job as well as the most common day for a job offer to be made to a candidate is this super day of the week.
Tuesday
These type of talented candidates are those who interviewed and made it to the final round of the hiring process, but who lost the job to the candidate who was ultimately preferred. Though second on the podium they may be a golden opportunity for recruiters for future positions.
Silver Medalists
Much of employee recruitment as we know it today originated as a product of this war in the 1940's when gaps in the workplace resulted from the call for men to join the war efforts. A desperate scramble to hire the men and women who were not called into military service gave birth to staffing agencies.
World War II
In Bali in this Southeast Asian island nation spiritual ethos is its hallmark. Local enterprises have ingeniously integrated this spirit into their hiring process. For instance on Nyepi, a day of complete silence on the island, silent interviews are held where non-verbal cues, energy and intuition play pivotal roles in gauging a candidate's fit.
Indonesia
A Disney musical with Christian Bale, 1992 - "every morning we goes where we wishes. We's as free as fishes. Sure beats washing dishes. What a fine life carrying the banner."
Newsies
"Hire for passion and intensity. There is training for everything else" are words of advice given by Nolan Bushnell the co-founder of Atari who also founded this chain of American family entertainment centers where kids can play and eat.
Chuck E. Cheese
A term that refers to the passive approach to recruiting when an employer posts an open position on a job board and then takes no additional action steps in hopes that great candidates will all apply on their own.
Post and Pray
The world of recruiting was revolutionized with an expanded reach of job postings and a streamlined application process with digital resumes after this British scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
Tim Berners-Lee
Speaking more than one language may be the key for job seekers in the limited market of this landlocked European country that has four official languages itself. It is not uncommon for employers to conduct job interviews in multiple languages to assess language proficiency. Better brush up on your German, French and Italian. If you want to show off perhaps Romansh.
Switzerland
Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, 1948 - "be a clown, all the world loves a clown! Act a fool, play the calf and you'll always have the last laugh. Wear the cap and the bells, and you'll rate with all the great swells."
The Pirate
This diversity policy that was first introduced in the NFL in 2003, and named after the then Pittsburgh Steelers chairman, broke into the corporate world in 2015 when former President Obama issued a call to action to technology companies to hire more women and minorities by including underrepresented candidates in interviews.
The Rooney Rule