Glossary
The words used by Careers in plain language: master profile, posting, fit, evidence, tailored CV, source line, truth check, design, preset, outbox, approval and more.
Application. A posting you have started to act on, with its CV, letter, e-mails and stage.
Approval. Your yes to one exact e-mail. Only a signed-in person can give it.
ATS. An applicant tracking system, software that reads CVs automatically. The ATS design is plain for it.
Density. How much a CV says: concise, standard or full.
Design. The look of a CV page. Every design draws every CV.
Digest. A daily list of strong new matches, opt-in.
Evidence. The roles and projects behind a skill in your profile.
Fit. The one score of a posting against your profile, with reasons.
Master profile. Your facts, once, from which every CV is drawn.
Missing. A requirement of a posting that your profile cannot show. Listed, never added.
Offline engine. The deterministic CV engine in your browser.
Original CV. Your own PDF, kept for side-by-side comparison.
Outbox. Where e-mails wait: drafts, scheduled, sent, failed, received.
Pipeline. Your postings with a stage each.
Posting. A job or project advert found by search or pasted in.
Preset. A labelled combination of design, length and density.
Source line. A line of your profile. Every CV line keeps the id of one.
Tailored CV. A CV and letter drawn from your profile for one posting.
Truth check. The check that refuses or repairs anything with no source.
ZZP. A Dutch freelancer. In Careers a country rule can describe you as "ZZP, KvK-registered".