Recruitment
Sourcing
Proactive identification and outreach to passive candidates outside your inbound pipeline.
Related terms.
Full glossary- EVP (Employee Value Proposition)
- The defined promise to employees — what you offer, expect and reward — that drives attraction and retention.
- Executive Search
- Retained search for senior leadership and board roles, with deeply researched longlists and structured assessment.
- Hiring Funnel
- The conversion path from sourced candidate to signed hire — applied, screened, interviewed, offered, accepted.
- Interview Loop
- The sequenced set of interviews and assessors a candidate moves through, designed to predict performance.
- RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing)
- Outsourcing all or part of recruitment to a specialist provider operating under your brand.
- Scorecard
- A structured rubric of competencies and outcomes used to assess every candidate against the same bar.
- Talent Acquisition
- The function that designs and runs sourcing, assessment, offer and onboarding for new hires.
- Time-to-Hire
- Days from approved requisition to signed offer — a primary indicator of recruitment system health.
