1. Introduction > 1.1 Terminology

User

We use the term "user" throughout this document, referring to a client, consultant, or otherwise registered business user of Cliquidity who logs in and uses the system as a "Business" user.

Candidate

Our use of this term refers to those individuals invited to complete one or more assessments either in a recruitment/selection scenario or within a workforce talent audit using incumbent employees.

Invitation

The email sent by Cliquidity (or a client), inviting a candidate to complete one or more assessments.

Nomination

An HTML enabled button which a client can place on their own website or company format/signature emails, containing embedded HTML code which directs a candidate to Cliquidity to complete one or more assessments for that client. More detailed explanation and example is available in the Nomination Button help section.

A Project

A project is created by a user, who can then add/invite candidates to complete one or more assessments as specified in the project assessment dialogue. Multiple projects can be created, allowing a user to identify incoming candidate data by project.

Talent Pool

A user-created talent pool enables a user to group together candidates who meet specific assessment criteria. Different virtual talent pools can be created from a user's existing candidates . Talent pools can be created of deleted at will; doing so does not affect the candidates in a user database/project.

CSV file

The file format used for Cliquidity data exports, using commas as field separators.

From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values):

"A Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file is a delimited text file that typically uses a comma to separate values. Each line of the file is a data record. Each record consists of one or more fields, separated by commas. The use of the comma as a field separator is the source of the name for this file format. A CSV file typically stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain text, in which case each line will have the same number of fields.

The CSV file format is not fully standardized. The basic idea of separating fields with a comma is clear, but the situation gets complicated when field data also contain commas or embedded line breaks. CSV implementations may not handle such field data, or they may use quotation marks to surround the field. Quotation does not solve everything: some fields may need embedded quotation marks, so a CSV implementation may include escape characters or escape sequences.

In addition, the term "CSV" also denotes several closely related delimiter-separated formats that use other field delimiters, for example, semicolons. These include tab-separated values and space-separated values. A delimiter such as tab that is not present in the field data allows simpler format parsing. These alternative delimiter-separated files are often given a .csv extension despite the use of a non-comma field separator. This loose terminology can cause problems in data exchange. Many applications that accept CSV files have options to select the delimiter character and the quotation character. Semicolons are often used instead of commas in many European locales in order to use the comma as the decimal separator and, possibly, the period as a decimal grouping character. Because of that, the term character-separated values is suggested as a wider definition of this file format."

Chapter 2: "Getting Started" explains (with examples) the key functionality of Projects and Talent Pools.

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