The Lingo - Terms of the Staffing World
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A common language is critical in today's staffing world. A lack of common definitions can cause communication problems between your organization’s hiring professionals and your staffing vendor. In the 21st century, staffing spans a range of industries and continents, so establishing a singular “lingo” helps clarify needs and services between diverse staffing audiences - employers, candidates, employees, and staffing providers.
Sources for The Lingo
The Lingo™ by J. Kent Staffing is a compilation of terms from two sources:
- Staffing Industry Analysts, the premier independent advisory service about the contingent workforce
- J. Kent Staffing’s internal staffing dictionary
The Lingo™
Lingo by Letter – Learn the Language of Staffing
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Glossary
- Candidate
- Candidate Pool
- Casual Labor
- CDD
- CDI
- Co-employment (Co-employer)
- Co-employment Risk
- Collective Labor Agreement (CLA)
- Commercial Staffing
- Compressed Workweek
- Consolidated Invoicing
- Consultant
- Contingency Placement
- Contingency Recruiting (Search)
- Contingent Work or Contingent Worker
- Contract Services
- Conversion Fee
- Counter Offers
- Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Part Time Professional
- Part-Time Professionals
- Part-time Work
- Partnering
- Payroll Service
- Payrolling
- Per Diem
- Perm
- Perma-temps
- Permanent Placement
- Phased Retirement
- Place
- Placement
- Placement Agency
- Placement Fee
- Placement Services
- Placement Snapshot
- Planned Staffing
- Precarious Work
- Primary Suppliers
- Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
- Professional Employer Services
- Professional Staffing
- Purchase Order
- Put Your Candidate to the Test™
- Reasons of Use
- Recruiting
- Recruitment Company, Recruitment Agency, or Recruitment Firm
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
- Recruitment to Recruitment (Rec to Rec)
- Refer, Referral
- Registry
- Regular Part-time Work
- Regular Work
- Request for Information (RFI)
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Request for Quotation (RFQ)
- Requisition
- Retained Search
- Reverse Auction
- RFx
- Rogue Spending
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- SAS 70 Type II Audit
- Search or Search Assignment
- Search Research
- Secondment
- Self Employed
- Senior Talent
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Short-term Assignment
- Single-source Leasing
- Single-source Supplier
- Sole Employer
- Sole Supplier
- Solutions Business
- Sourcing Model
- SOW Consultant
- SOX or Sarbox
- Special Employer
- Specialist Staffing or Specialty Staffing
- Spend Under Management
- Splits
- Staff Leasing
- Staffing Association
- Staffing Company, Staffing Agency or Staffing Firm
- Staffing Industry
- Staffing Options
- Staffing Services
- Staffsourcing
- Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Statement of Work (SOW) Consultant
- Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS) 70
- Strategic Staffing
- Structured Tiers
- Supplemental Staffing
- Supplier Management
- Technical Services
- Technical Services Firm
- Telecommuting
- Temp
- Temp-to-Direct
- Temp-to-Hire
- Temp-to-Hire by Design™
- Temporary Employee (“Temporary”)
- Temporary Help
- Temporary Help Company
- Temporary Placement
- Temporary Pool
- Temporary Staffing
- Temporary-to-Permanent (Temp-to-Perm)
- Test-a-Match™
- The Advantage of Experience™
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Third-party (Web) Exchange
- Time and Expense System
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Traditional Employment
- Traditional Staffing
- Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE)
- Try-before-Buy
- Try-before-Hire
