Timeline for Name for a candidate about to sign an employment contract
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| Apr 20 at 8:46 | history | edited | w2013 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 14 at 20:06 | comment | added | Lambie | You can be recruited by a company but not yet signed, so to speak. final candidate sounds like the last on a list. | |
| Mar 12 at 17:13 | answer | added | Seattle guy | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 12 at 15:33 | comment | added | Andy Bonner | @StuartF IMO "Prospective" is the best answer (maybe with the additional suggestion of "provisional"); I suggest expanding to an answer. I feel like I have actually seen "prospective employee" often, and certainly "prospective students" in college admissions, and "prospective home buyers" in real estate. Conveys "They're not this yet, but they're in the process to become this." | |
| Mar 12 at 15:31 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: -1 | |
| Mar 12 at 14:16 | comment | added | Lambie | It's called the pre-contractual stage of employment. And a candidate has at this point become a recruit. | |
| Mar 12 at 13:56 | history | edited | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 12 at 12:51 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 12 at 12:01 | comment | added | TimR | Someone who does a lot of hiring at a local university tells me that their HR department uses the phrase final candidate to refer to the person who is being sent an offer letter, which they must sign to acknowledge the terms of employment. But I don't think there is any standard term for the person at this transitional stage in the process. They could change their mind and not accept the position if, say, their current employer makes a counteroffer, or they get a better offer from another place. So new hire is premature. | |
| Mar 12 at 10:02 | comment | added | Stuart F | Yeah, they could be a candidate (with some adjective) or a prospective employee or a (prospective) signatory (which is more common in formal contexts for a person signing something). There isn't a precise, common one-word term for the situation you describe. | |
| Mar 12 at 8:36 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | "Successful candidate"? | |
| Mar 12 at 8:31 | comment | added | Joachim | Hi, can you include a sample sentence (as per the tag info)? | |
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| S Mar 12 at 8:04 | history | asked | w2013 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |