Basic Terms and Acronyms Buster Dose for Job Consultancy Users

Language of Recruiters – Jargons For Many

Is this your first encounter with complexity of Job Consultancy terms and acronyms?

Are you perplexed to understand what your staffing agency meant to communicate?

Language of recruiters and their frequently used jargons may confuse any new user or client. To clear the mist and doubts, Globalhunt recruitment is presenting here list of commonly used shortened words and phrases of industry along with meaning. Let’s dig in with our Jargon Buster dose!

Contingency Recruiting and Placement

Contingency Recruiting and placement refers to talent engagement for higher levels. In this, executive search takes place mostly under the control of a placement agency. Additionally, the agency is responsible for screening and interview procedures.

Contingent Worker

A contingent worker is the one who works as a temporary employee placed at any post and any industry by the placement agency or job consultant. This post include all types of professionals, officers, executives, blue-collar, clerical staff etc. those have specific skill sets or experience to fit in the position. It’s a temporary employment that will end in fixed and explicit tenure.

Direct Hire

Direct Hire is a staffing agency service that helps employers to hire employees to work for their companies on direct company payroll.

Executive Search or Headhunting

Executive Search or headhunting includes services of recruitment firm for filling up specialized vacancies in companies. The term refers to recruit senior executive and other top positions as per client’s job description and specifications.

Managed Staffing services

This term represents a range of outsourcing staffing services. In this sort of services the job consultant look after all the functional works to incorporate on-site supervision or management of functions at a client(s) site. These service providers are also referred as Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

Master Supplier

Master Supplier is the chief manpower service provider for any organization who undertakes the overall responsibilities of serving client with staffing solutions. This is the key role player for all type of manpower requirements for any firm and is responsible for filling all staffing needs.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing

RPO is the process of recruiting an agency for filling up all staffing requirements. Commonly, this term refers to outsourcing of recruitment services to an agency that would perform all the placement process for an organization. RPO will furnish direct hires for the organization as per the needs.

Job Description

JD or JS (job specification) is a list of the deliverables under the job title. This includes responsibilities and requirements along with educational and workman skills expected from the applicants. It is a basic part of a job advert to communicate the requirements of the employer.

Talent Acquisition

Talent acquisition refers to efforts of an organization to source worthy candidates. Sometimes this art of proactively attracting new employees for business works as an intellectual tool for sourcing best talent.

On-boarding

On-boarding of a new recruit refers to all after placement activities under the organization that empower worker to become productive resource at the earliest. The term is equally applicable for temporary as well permanent recruitment. The term collectively refers to organization’ induction and training program, arrangement of seating and fulfilling of equipments requisite for performing duties of the job title.

These were some of the frequently used terms that job consultants use. Although we have tried to include various terms from different segments, there are still lots to explore. If you want to know clarification for any term you encountered recently while communicating with a job Consultancy, share it with us. We will try to explain it in the simplest possible way.