The words you will meet

How to use this chapter

This is a chapter to look things up in, not one to read from end to end. The words are in alphabetical order. Each has a sentence or two, and most end with the chapter to read if you want more. A word in bold inside an explanation has an entry of its own.

The words

Word	What it means
Advertisement	The public page for the role, with a button into the application form. It is written from your briefing and from what was agreed, and you can read it once it is live. See What we agreed
Answer	What one candidate wrote, or uploaded, for one question on the application form. Where your recruiter lets you, you read the answers on your suggested candidates and on the scoresheet
Application form	The questions every applicant answers. Each tests one thing the person must be able to do, so every applicant is read the same way
Band	Your recruiter's judgement of one answer, against what a good answer would contain. There are five: Met all, Met most, Met some, Failed some and Failed all. There are no marks and no totals. See Reading the scoresheet
Briefing	What a role starts from: Your written answers to the opening questions, the plain facts the advertisement needs, and your recruiter's conversation with whoever the person will report to. See Your briefing
Campaign	One role being recruited, with everything that belongs to it: Its briefing, its advertisement, its applicants and the candidates suggested to you. Each has a card on your dashboard and a page of its own
Candidate	A person who has applied. Until you have approved them for the final interview, you usually see them as a number, Candidate 7, rather than by name. See Deciding on your suggested candidates
Contacts	The people at your recruiter who run your campaign, listed by name and email at the foot of the campaign's page. They are also the people your messages go to
Dashboard	Your first page: Every campaign being run for you, where each has got to, and what is waiting for you. See Welcome
Discuss	A link beside a question, an answer or a band. It opens a panel where you write to your recruiter's team about that one thing, and read what has been said about it already. See Discuss, and your messages
Job description	The one-page account of the role that becomes the advertisement: What it is for, what the person will do, and the plain facts such as hours and pay. You read it once it is agreed. See What we agreed
Messages	The conversations you are part of with your recruiter's team, reached from the bell at the top of the page. Nobody outside those conversations reads them, except that your colleagues who are given the specification read your comments on the Person Specification, unless you keep one to your recruiter. No candidate ever reads them. See Discuss, and your messages and Person Specification
Person Specification	The rows that say what the person must be able to do, and the question or task that tests each. Your recruiter shares it with you in drafts, to agree row by row and comment on. See Person Specification
Plain facts	What the advertisement cannot be written without: The title, hours, pay, place, the systems used, and the rest. You are asked for them beneath your briefing, under A few plain facts, which becomes Questions we have for you once the job description has questions of its own. See Questions we have for you
Recruiter, your	The organisation recruiting for you, whose name is at the top of every page. It may be a recruitment firm or your own company's hiring team
Scoresheet	A grid of every candidate against every question on the application form, with the band your recruiter gave each answer. You read it where your recruiter has let you, and change nothing on it. See Reading the scoresheet
Suggested candidates	The candidates your recruiter has chosen for you to decide on, each with a summary, and whatever else your recruiter has let you see. You approve, reject or mark each one unsure. Your dashboard counts them as Suggested for you. See Deciding on your suggested candidates
Summary	What your recruiter wrote for you about one of your suggested candidates: A line on what they bring, then a few points
Two-step sign-in	Signing in with a code from an app on your telephone as well as your password. See Your account