Recruiting terms, defined plainly.

White-label recruiter portal

A white-label recruiter portal is a candidate review surface that displays the recruiter's or agency's brand instead of the underlying SaaS vendor's. Hiring managers see the recruiter's logo, colors, and identity; the vendor either fades to a small footer mark or disappears entirely.

AI clip extraction (from a screening call)

AI clip extraction is the process of taking a transcribed screening-call recording and using a language model to identify the candidate moments most relevant to the role's evaluation rubric, returned as start/end timestamps with a short rationale.

Candidate submission portal

A candidate submission portal is a tool recruiters use to package a candidate (resume, scorecard, evaluation, optional video) into a single shareable link the hiring manager can review without logging in.

Client portal for recruiters

A client portal for recruiters is a private review surface a recruiter shares with their hiring-manager clients so the client can review candidates and give feedback without joining the recruiter's internal toolchain.

Scorecard

A scorecard is a fixed set of requirements a role's candidates are evaluated against, with each requirement getting a pass / fail / unsure verdict and an overall rating.

Applicant tracking system

An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a database-of-record for everyone who applies to a company, used by in-house recruiting teams and staffing firms to manage candidates, requisitions, and pipeline state at scale.

Hiring manager review page

A hiring manager review page is a single web page, accessible by URL with no login, that lets a hiring manager review a candidate sent by a recruiter and react inside the page — sentiment, stage moves, questions, candidate email.