# What Intervieux's interview and hiring glossary covers

The glossary defines the terms that come up around interviewing and hiring, from interview formats like behavioral, technical, and panel interviews to hiring process terms like applicant tracking system and screening interview, in plain language with no jargon left unexplained. Each entry is short enough to read in under a minute and links back to where the concept actually shows up in a real interview or hiring pipeline.

Job seekers land here searching a specific term they just heard from a recruiter, an interview invite email, or a friend describing their own process, usually with no time to read a long article before their next call. Recruiters and hiring managers use some of the same terms differently than candidates expect, and a definition that only serves one side misses half its audience. Every entry here is written to work for both.

## Who each entry is written for

Interview format terms, behavioral, technical, panel, case, situational, structured, take-home, and others, are written for a candidate trying to figure out what to expect walking in, but stay accurate enough that a recruiter drafting an interview plan can use the same page. Hiring process terms, applicant tracking system, screening interview, phone screen, second round, exit interview, cover what happens to an application after it's submitted, useful for a candidate wondering why they haven't heard back and for a recruiter explaining their own pipeline to a candidate.

Answer framework entries, like the STAR method, break down how to structure a behavioral answer step by step rather than just naming the acronym. And candidate-facing terms, ghosting, notice period, resume gap, filler words, culture fit versus culture add, address the parts of a job search that don't fit neatly into either format or process but come up constantly anyway. A few entries, like mock interview, define terms Intervieux itself avoids using for its own product, because a glossary that only defines the words a company likes to use isn't much of a glossary.

## Explore this section

- ["Tell me about yourself"](/glossary/tell-me-about-yourself)
- [Active candidates](/glossary/active-candidates)
- [Adverse impact](/glossary/adverse-impact)
- [AI bias in hiring](/glossary/ai-bias-in-hiring)
- [AI interview](/glossary/ai-interview)
- [AI interview scoring](/glossary/ai-interview-scoring)
- [AI recruiting](/glossary/ai-recruiting)
- [AI screening](/glossary/ai-screening)
- [Applicant tracking system (ATS)](/glossary/applicant-tracking-system)
- [Asynchronous interview](/glossary/asynchronous-interview)
- [At-will employment](/glossary/at-will-employment)
- [ATS resume screening](/glossary/ats-resume-screening)
- [Background check](/glossary/background-check)
- [Behavioral interview](/glossary/behavioral-interview)
- [Behavioral questions](/glossary/behavioral-questions)
- [Boolean search in recruiting](/glossary/boolean-search)
- [Brainteaser questions](/glossary/brainteaser-questions)
- [Campus recruiting](/glossary/campus-recruiting)
- [Candidate consent management](/glossary/consent-management)
- [Candidate drop-off rate](/glossary/candidate-drop-off-rate)
- [Candidate experience](/glossary/candidate-experience)
- [Candidate pipeline](/glossary/candidate-pipeline)
- [Candidate sourcing](/glossary/sourcing)
- [Case interview](/glossary/case-interview)
- [Coding challenge](/glossary/coding-challenge)
- [Compensation package](/glossary/compensation-package)
- [Competency-based interview](/glossary/competency-based-interview)
- [Contingent offer](/glossary/contingent-offer)
- [Conversational AI](/glossary/conversational-ai)
- [Cost-per-hire](/glossary/cost-per-hire)
- [Counteroffer](/glossary/counteroffer)
- [Cover letter](/glossary/cover-letter)
- [Culture add](/glossary/culture-add)
- [Culture fit](/glossary/culture-fit)
- [Data retention policy in hiring](/glossary/data-retention-policy)
- [Early-career hiring](/glossary/early-career-hiring)
- [EEOC compliance](/glossary/eeoc-compliance)
- [Elevator pitch](/glossary/elevator-pitch)
- [Embeddings](/glossary/embeddings)
- [Employer branding](/glossary/employer-branding)
- [Equity compensation](/glossary/equity-compensation)
- [Exit interview](/glossary/exit-interview)
- [Filler words](/glossary/filler-words)
- [Final-round interview](/glossary/final-round-interview)
- [GDPR in recruiting](/glossary/gdpr-in-recruiting)
- [Ghosting in hiring](/glossary/ghosting)
- [Group interview](/glossary/group-interview)
- [Hard skills](/glossary/hard-skills)
- [Headhunter](/glossary/headhunter)
- [High-volume hiring](/glossary/high-volume-hiring)
- [Hiring funnel conversion rate](/glossary/funnel-conversion-rate)
- [Hiring manager](/glossary/hiring-manager)
- [Hiring signal](/glossary/hiring-signal)
- [Informational interview](/glossary/informational-interview)
- [Interview attire](/glossary/interview-attire)
- [Interview body language](/glossary/body-language)
- [Interview follow-up email](/glossary/follow-up-email)
- [Interview red flags](/glossary/red-flags-in-interviews)
- [Interview scorecard](/glossary/interview-scorecard)
- [Interview transcript](/glossary/interview-transcript)
- [Interview-to-offer ratio](/glossary/interview-to-offer-ratio)
- [Job description](/glossary/job-description)
- [Job matching algorithms](/glossary/job-matching-algorithm)
- [Job posting](/glossary/job-posting)
- [Job references](/glossary/references)
- [Job requisition](/glossary/job-requisition)
- [Knockout questions](/glossary/knockout-questions)
- [Large language model (LLM)](/glossary/large-language-model)
- [Live coding test](/glossary/live-coding-test)
- [Lunch interview](/glossary/lunch-interview)
- [Mock interview](/glossary/mock-interview)
- [Natural language processing (NLP)](/glossary/natural-language-processing)
- [Non-compete clause](/glossary/non-compete-clause)
- [Notice period](/glossary/notice-period)
- [Offer acceptance rate](/glossary/offer-acceptance-rate)
- [Offer letter](/glossary/offer-letter)
- [Onboarding](/glossary/onboarding)
- [One-way video interview](/glossary/one-way-video-interview)
- [Pair programming interview](/glossary/pair-programming-interview)
- [Panel interview](/glossary/panel-interview)
- [Passive candidates](/glossary/passive-candidates)
- [Pay transparency](/glossary/pay-transparency)
- [Phone screen](/glossary/phone-screen)
- [Post-interview thank-you email](/glossary/thank-you-email)
- [Pre-employment assessment](/glossary/pre-employment-assessment)
- [Quality of hire](/glossary/quality-of-hire)
- [Questions to ask the interviewer](/glossary/questions-to-ask-interviewer)
- [Recruiter vs. hiring manager](/glossary/recruiter-vs-hiring-manager)
- [Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)](/glossary/rpo)
- [Reference check](/glossary/reference-check)
- [Resume gap](/glossary/resume-gap)
- [Resume parsing](/glossary/resume-parsing)
- [Salary band](/glossary/salary-band)
- [Salary expectations question](/glossary/salary-expectations)
- [Screening interview](/glossary/screening-interview)
- [Screening questions](/glossary/screening-questions)
- [Second-round interview](/glossary/second-round-interview)
- [Semantic search](/glossary/semantic-search)
- [Shortlisting](/glossary/shortlisting)
- [Signing bonus](/glossary/signing-bonus)
- [Situational interview](/glossary/situational-interview)
- [Situational questions](/glossary/situational-questions)
- [Skills-based hiring](/glossary/skills-based-hiring)
- [SOAR method](/glossary/soar-method)
- [Soft skills](/glossary/soft-skills)
- [Speech-to-text](/glossary/speech-to-text)
- [Staffing agency](/glossary/staffing-agency)
- [STAR method](/glossary/star-method)
- [Stay interview](/glossary/stay-interview)
- [Strengths and weaknesses questions](/glossary/strengths-and-weaknesses)
- [Stress interview](/glossary/stress-interview)
- [Structured interview](/glossary/structured-interview)
- [Structured scoring rubric](/glossary/structured-scoring-rubric)
- [System design interview](/glossary/system-design-interview)
- [Take-home assessment](/glossary/take-home-assessment)
- [Talent acquisition](/glossary/talent-acquisition)
- [Talent pool](/glossary/talent-pool)
- [Technical interview](/glossary/technical-interview)
- [The four-fifths rule](/glossary/four-fifths-rule)
- [Time-to-fill](/glossary/time-to-fill)
- [Time-to-hire](/glossary/time-to-hire)
- [Total compensation](/glossary/total-compensation)
- [Transferable skills](/glossary/transferable-skills)
- [Unstructured interview](/glossary/unstructured-interview)
- [Voice AI](/glossary/voice-ai)
- [Whiteboard interview](/glossary/whiteboard-interview)
- [Working interview](/glossary/working-interview)

## Frequently asked questions

### Is this glossary written for job seekers or for recruiters?

Both. Interview format and answer framework terms are written primarily for a candidate preparing, while hiring process terms like applicant tracking system or screening interview are useful to a recruiter explaining their pipeline as much as to a candidate trying to understand where they stand in it.

### Does the glossary cover interview answer frameworks like STAR?

Yes. The STAR method and SOAR method entries break behavioral answer structure down step by step, which matters directly on Intervieux since the scoring penalty system checks whether a behavioral answer actually follows that structure.

### Why does Intervieux define mock interview if it doesn't use that term?

Because job seekers search for it. Intervieux calls its own product AI interviews, since they're a real hiring signal employers act on, not a rehearsal exercise, but the glossary still defines mock interview accurately since that's the term most people search first.

### How long is each glossary entry?

Short. Each one leads with a direct definition in the first sentence, followed by a short paragraph on where the term fits into an actual interview or hiring process, meant to be read in under a minute rather than treated as a full article.

### Are new terms added to the glossary regularly?

Yes, the glossary grows as new interview formats and hiring process terms come up in real candidate and recruiter questions, rather than being fixed to one list published once.

## Related pages

- [AI interview practice by role](/interviews)
- [What Intervieux's feature set covers](/features)
- [Scenario-based guides](/use-cases)
- [Browse open roles](/jobs)
- [Frequently asked questions](/faq)

## Look up a term

Search the glossary below for the exact term you're trying to understand, or browse by category to see the full range of interview and hiring terms covered.

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