Staffing, similar to many industries, has a myriad of proprietary terms and acronyms. We have compiled this helpful glossary including our own definitions as well as terms from the staffing lexicon compiled by Staffing Industry Analysts.
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- 1099 worker
a
- Accruals
- Administrative Fee
- Administrative Services Organization (ASO)
- Affirmative Action
- Agency
- Agency Contractor
- Agency Model MSP
- Agency Work
- Agency Worker
- Agency Workers’ Directive (AWD)
- Agency Workers Regulations (AWR)
- Alliance
- Alternative Staffing
- Ancillary HR Services
- Applicant
- Applicant Paid Fee (APF)
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
- Approved Supplier List (ASL)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Assign
- Assignment
- Atypical Employment
- AUG (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz)
b
- BELO Agreement
- Bill Rate
- Blended RPO
- Blended Workforce
- Burden
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
c
- Candidate
- Candidate Relationship Management
- Casual Labor
- CCWP
- CDD
- CDI
- CEI (Certificate of Employment Intermediaries)
- Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP)
- CL (Comprehensive License)
- Clinical/Scientific Staffing
- Co-employment (Co-employer)
- Co-employment Risk
- Collective Labor Agreement (CLA)
- Commercial Staffing
- Compressed Workweek
- Consolidated Invoicing
- Consultant
- Contingency Placement
- Contingency Recruiting (Search)
- Contingent RPO
- Contingent Worker
- Contingent Workforce Management (CWM)
- Contingent Workforce Program
- Contract Services
- Contracting/Consulting
- Contractor
- Conversion Fee
- Cost-Plus Pricing
- Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
- Crowdsourcing
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
d
- Day Labor
- Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
- Direct Employment
- Direct Hire
- Direct Sourcing
- Directly Sourced Contingent Workers
- Dispatch Worker
- Diversity Supplier
e
- E-recruitment
- Earnback
- Education Staffing
- Employee
- Employee Leasing/Staff Leasing
- Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
- Employer Branding
- Employer of Record (EOR)
- Employer Paid Fee (EPF)
- Employment Agency (Private)
- Employment Business
- Employment Intermediary
- Engagement Manager
- Engineering/Design Staffing
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Executive Search
- Exempt/Non-Exempt
- Expatriate/Expat
f
- Facilities Management
- Facilities Staffing
- Factoring
- Fesco
- Finance/Accounting Staffing
- Fixed Rates
- Flexible Staffing
- Flexicurity
- Flextime or Flexi-time
- Franchise
- Freelancer
- Freelancer Management System (FMS)
- Full Service
- Full-time Equivalent (FTE)
g
- Gain Sharing
- General Employer
- Gig Work/Gig Economy
- Gross Margin
- Group Purchasing Organization (GPO)
h
- H-1B Visa
- Headcount
- Headhunter
- Healthcare—Allied Healthcare Staffing
- Healthcare—Locum Tenens Staffing
- Healthcare—Per Diem Nurse Staffing
- Healthcare Staffing Services
- Healthcare—Travel Nurse Staffing
- Hiring Manager
- HR Consulting
- HR-XML Staffing Industry Data Exchange Standards (SIDES)
- Human Capital Management
- Human Capital Supply Chain Management (HCSM)
- Human Cloud
- Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
- Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO)
- Hybrid Program
i
- Identity Management
- IFRS
- In-house Temporary
- In-house Work
- Indemnification
- Independent Contractor Compliance (ICC)
- Independent Contractor Evaluation (ICE)
- Independent Contractor
- Independent Contractor Management (ICM)
- Industrial Staffing
- Informal Employment
- Information Technology (IT) Staffing
- Insourcing
- Interim Executive
- Interim Management
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- IR35
- IRS Three Factor Test
- ISIC
- ISO 9001:2000
- ISO Certification
- IT Services
j
- Job Boards
- Job Order
- Job Sharing
- Joint Employment
- Just-in-Time Staffing (JITS)
k
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
l
- Labor Broking
- Labor Contracting (Labor Leasing)
- Labor Hire
- Labor on Demand
- Leased Employees
- Legal Staffing
- Licensee/Licensor
- Limosa Declaration
- Liquidated Damages
- Locum tenens
- Long-term Assignment
m
- Malpractice Insurance
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Managed Services/Managed Staffing
- Margin
- Margin only Model MSP
- Marketing/Creative Staffing
- Markup
- Master Service Agreement (MSA)
- Master Supplier
- Master Vendor
- Maverick Spending
- Max Bill Rates
- Medical Staffing Services
- Mobile Recruiting
n
- NACE
- Near-shoring
- NEN-4400
- Net PEO Revenue
- Non-Employee
- Non-Professional Staffing
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
o
- Off-site
- Offboarding
- Office/Clerical Staffing
- Office/Clerical Support
- Offshoring
- On-Demand Economy
- On-site
- On-site Management
- On-site Supervision
- Onboarding
- Online Services
- Online Staffing Platforms
- Online Work Services
- Open Bill Rates
- Operating Margin
- Other Workforce Solutions
- Outplacement
- Outsourced Personnel
- Outsourced Service Contracts
- Outsourcing
- Outsourcing contract
p
- Part-time Work
- Partnering
- Pay Rate
- Pay When Paid Clause
- Payrolling
- Payrolling/Compliance
- Penetration Rate
- Per Diem
- Perm
- Perma-temps
- Permanent Placement
- Phased Retirement
- Place
- Place & Search
- Placement
- Placement Agency
- Placement Fee
- Placement Services
- Planned Staffing
- PMO or PgMO
- Precariedad
- Precarietà
- Précarité
- Preferred Supplier List (PSL)
- Primary Suppliers
- Principal Model MSP
- Process Outsourcing
- Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
- Professional Employer Services
- Professional Staffing
- Project Management Fee (PMF)
- Project/Program Management Office (PMO)
- Pseudo-independence
- Purchase Order
q
- Qualifying Clock
- Quarterly Business Review (QBR)
r
- Reasons of Use
- Recruiting
- Recruitment Company or 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
- Reverse Billing or Reverse Invoicing
- RFx
- Risk Management
- Rogue Spending
s
- Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX/Sarbox)
- SAS 70 Type II Audit
- Search Research
- Search/Search Assignment
- Secondment
- Self-Billing
- Self Employed
- Self-Managed Program
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Shared Services Center (SSC)
- Sharing Economy
- Short-term Assignment
- Single-source Leasing
- Single-source Supplier
- SL (Select License)
- SNA Hallmark
- Social Recruiting
- Sole Employer
- Sole Supplier
- Solutions Business
- Sourcing (aka Candidate Sourcing)
- Sourcing Model
- SOW Consultant
- SOW Consulting Services
- SOX/Sarbox
- Special Employer
- Specialist Staffing/Specialty Staffing
- Spend Under Management
- Splits
- Staff Augmentation
- Staff Leasing
- Staffing
- Staffing Association
- Staffing Company / Staffing Agency / Staffing Firm
- Staffing Industry
- Staffsourcing
- Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Statement of Work (SOW) Consultant
- Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS) 70
- Strategic Staffing
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Structured Tiers
- Supplemental Staffing
- Supplier
- Supplier-Funded Model
- Supplier Management
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Supply Teacher
- Swedish Derogation
t
- Talent Acquisition
- Talent Acquisition Technology
- Talent Engagement
- Talent Exchange
- Talent Management
- Talent Management System (TMS)
- Talent Pool
- Technical Services
- Technical Services Firm
- Telecommuting
- Temp
- Temp-to-Direct
- Temp-to-Hire
- Temporary Agency Worker (TAW)
- Temporary Employee (“Temporary”)
- Temporary Help
- Temporary Help Company
- Temporary Placement
- Temporary Pool
- Temporary Staffing
- Temporary-to-Permanent (Temp-to-Perm) Conversion
- Temporary Work Agency (TWA)
- Testing
- The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Time and Expense System
- Time and Materials Contract
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Total Talent Acquisition
- Total Talent Management (aka Total Workforce Management)
- Traditional Employment
- Traditional Staffing
- Training & Accreditation
- Transactional Pricing
- Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE)
- Travel Nurse Staffing
- Try-before-Buy
- Try-before-Hire
u
- Umbrella Agreement
- Umbrella Company
v
- VAR Declaration
- Variable Time Programs
- Vendor List
- Vendor Management System (VMS)
- Vendor Management/Supplier Management
- Vendor Neutral
- Vendor on Premises (VOP)
- Vendor Tiering
- Vendoring
- Vendoring Out
w
- W-2 Employee
- Wind Down Fees
- Witkey
- Women and Minority Business Enterprise (WMBE)
- Work Order
- Work Sharing
- Worker Dispatch Law
- Worker Tracking
- Workers’ Compensation
- Workforce Mix Optimization
- Workforce Planning
- Workforce Solutions
- Working Time Regulations Act (WTR)
- Works Council
z
- Zero Hour Contract
