candidate

(noun)

A person who applies to a job position.

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Examples of candidate in the following topics:

  • About this author and acknowledgements

    • Special thanks as well to Taissia Belozerova, Graphic Designer, Artist, MBA Candidate at Pepperdine University Class of 2009.
    • Image created by: Taissia Belozerova, Graphic Designer, Artist, MBA Candidate at Pepperdine University Class of 2009

  • Recruiting workers

    • Recruiting workers consists of actively compiling a diverse pool of potential candidates which can be considered for employment.
    • First, this recruitment technique simply posts the question to existing employees on whether anybody is aware of qualified candidates that they know personally which could fill a position.
    • External recruitment focuses resources on looking outside the organization for potential candidates and expanding the available talent pool.
    • The primary goal of external recruitment is to create diversity among potential candidates by attempting to reach a wider range of individuals unavailable through internal recruitment.
    • For instance, the NCAA allows all of its member schools and conferences to post jobs on their website at a minimal cost, allowing for a more specialized selection of candidates.

  • The Mission of Human Resource Management

    • Likewise, the marketing disciplines associated with branding and brand management have been increasingly applied by the human resources and talent management community to attract, engage, and retain talented candidates and employees.
    • The stages in selection include sourcing candidates by networking, advertising, or other methods.
    • The HR recruiter utilizes professional interviewing techniques to understand the candidate's skills, motivations to make a move, and to screen potential candidates using testing (skills or personality).
    • The process is meant to evaluate the candidate and also evaluate how the candidate will fit into the organization.
    • Recruiters play an important role by preparing the candidate and company for the interview, providing feedback to both parties, and handling salary and benefits negotiations.

  • Finding Good Candidates

    • After the job analysis, the process moves onto sourcing, which involves 1) advertising, a common part of the recruiting process, often encompassing multiple media, such as the Internet, general newspapers, job ad newspapers, professional publications, window advertisements, job centers, and campus graduate recruitment programs; and 2) recruitment research, which is the proactive identification of passive candidates who are happy in their current positions and are not actively looking to move companies.
    • This initial research for so-called passive candidates, also called name generation, results in a contact information of potential candidates who can then be contacted discreetly to be screened and approached on behalf of an executive search firm or corporate client.

  • Management: the meta profession

    • The future Supreme Court justice did an interesting thing that graduation day: he turned away from the professional degree candidates toward the business degree candidates, and said:

  • Keys to Better Job Interviewing

    • Our selection committee had just interviewed eight candidates for three empty Resident Advisor slots in our residence hall.
    • Before I could get a word in edgewise, and before the other committee members could get up from their chairs, our candidate circulated briskly to each of them.
    • But he differed dramatically from all our other candidates—including the ones we'd decided we'd hire.
    • First, though, let me set forth some rules and principles I think any candidate can profitably follow in a job interview.
    • Daniel Searles proved two major points in his job interview: 1) that he was different from all the other candidates and 2) that he was better than they were.

  • Trade Associations

    • This can take the form of contributions to the campaigns of political candidates and parties, contributions to "issue" campaigns not tied to a candidate or party, and lobbying legislators to support or oppose particular legislation.

  • Promotions

    • In many Western public service bodies, when a manager wants to promote an employee, they must follow a number of steps, such as advertising the position, accepting applications from qualified candidates, screening and interviewing candidates, and then documenting why they chose a particular candidate.

  • Portfolios for Job Searches

    • As an employee over this same period, I've also served on committees which interviewed at least five times that many candidates for various positions.
    • One supervisor quoted in a Midwestern survey said job portfolios distinguished between top-notch and mediocre candidates "like a hot knife going through butter."
    • Here are reasons why candidates should bring portfolios to job interviews, according to one recent article by Betty Aderman and JuWon Choi:

  • Creating a Web presence

    • A simple Google search will turn up many candidates for you in your locale.