Glossary of CVViZ terms

Understand current recruiting, sourcing, communication, company, and workspace terms without internal code names.

Find definitions of common CVViZ terms. Feature availability depends on your workspace, plan, and permissions.

Jobs and candidate records

Job: a role your team is recruiting for. It has its own details, approval, lifecycle status, hiring pipeline, team, and publication settings.
Job code: the identifier used alongside a job title to distinguish roles.
Candidate: a person recorded in CVViZ. A candidate can be associated with more than one job.
Application: the association between a candidate and a particular job, including that job’s candidate stage. It is different from the job’s own lifecycle status.
Candidate database: the Candidates workspace for searching and organizing the candidate records you can access, including records outside a particular active job.
Tag: a label used to organize and filter records.
Source: the recorded origin of a candidate or upload. Reports use their own dates and counting rules.

Hiring pipeline: the candidate stages used by a job. Job lifecycle status and candidate stage are separate.
Job approval: sign-off required by the account’s configured job workflow. Approval is separate from publishing the job.
Automation: an enabled rule that performs a supported action when its conditions are met.
Basic evaluation: a job-match result with an overall grade and skills match.
Advanced evaluation: a detailed AI resume assessment that can include skills, experience, and education evidence.
Benchmark Resume: example CVs added in the job editor for similarity ranking. Their use in Advanced evaluation depends on its setup.
Interview scorecard: the questions or criteria used to record human interview feedback for a job.
Hiring manager: a stakeholder associated with hiring a role. A hiring-manager record and a CVViZ user account are different concepts.

PeopleSearch: an external candidate-profile source. Search credits and contact-reveal credits are separate.
AI Sourcing: a discovery workspace for enabled users, with sources such as PeopleSearch, the internal database, GitHub, and web discovery.
Shortlist: a collection of reviewed AI Sourcing profiles. Import profiles into a job or reveal contacts separately.
Outreach: a sequence workspace for enabled users to plan emails to candidates or client contacts. Reply capture and follow-ups depend on enabled capabilities.
Ad Campaign: paid job advertising through available distribution partners.
Email template: reusable message wording with supported variables.
Reply-to: the address a recipient’s reply is directed to in a supported email workflow. Check it separately from the From address and Outreach reply-capture settings.

Career page: the published, candidate-facing company page. Save draft and Publish site/Publish changes are separate actions.
Talent pool on the career page: a general-application invitation for candidates without a matching current role. It differs from the candidate database and AI Sourcing shortlists.
Department: a grouping used to organize jobs within an operation.
Customer company and contact: a client organization and an associated person, commonly used by staffing teams.
Vendor: an external recruiting partner whose access and submissions use the supported vendor workflow.
Child company: a subsidiary or division managed under a parent account where enabled. User roles and record access still apply.
User role: the permissions assigned to a user. Review the permission list to confirm access.
Multi-Domain Access (MDA): access for eligible team users from configured additional email domains.
Custom Career Page Domain (CNAME): a verified custom address mapped to a career page through Billing.
Webhook: a supported event notification to an external destination where configured. Webhook management is not a published customer API operation.

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