The recruitment software glossary

The Eclipse recruitment software glossary aims to clarify the most commonly used terms and acronyms you’ll often hear when discussing recruitment software and technology.

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Active Candidate

Agency Worker Regulations (AWR)

Analytics

Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Application Programme Interface (API)

Back Office

Boolean

Business Intelligence (BI)

Candidate Management

Candidate Screening

Chatbot

Cloud / Cloud Computing

Compliance

Comma-separated Values (CSV)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

CV / Resume Parsing

Dashboard

Data Migration

Data Partitioning

Document Management System (DMS)

Fill Rate

Front Office

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Google Analytics (GA)

HTML

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

Invoice Rate

IR35

Job Advert Distribution

Job Aggregator

KPI

Mailshots

Master Vendor

Middle Office

On-Premise

Onboarding

Passive Candidate

Pay Rate

Permanent Recruitment

PSL Rate Card

Rate Card

Recruitment CRM / Recruitment Management System (RMS)

Recruitment Software

Right to Work

RSS / XML Feed

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Short Message Service (SMS)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Talent Pool

Temporary to Permanent (Temp to Perm)

Time and Attendance

Timesheet Actuals

Two Factor Authentication

User Permissions

Vendor Management System (VMS)