Master the professional word combinations used in technical hiring and recruitment in English. These collocations appear in job descriptions, recruiter communications, hiring panel discussions, and offer letters.
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The engineering manager worked with HR to ___ a job description that accurately reflected the day-to-day responsibilities of the role.
We 'craft a job description' in hiring language. 'Craft' implies deliberate, careful writing aimed at attracting the right candidates. 'Write' is also natural and widely used. 'Create' is generic; 'define' focuses on requirements but is less natural for the written document itself.
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The panel decided to ___ the candidate to the next stage after a strong technical screen.
We 'advance a candidate' through a hiring process. 'Advance to the next stage' is the professional collocation used by recruiters and hiring panels. 'Move to the next stage' is also common and natural. 'Progress a candidate' is used in UK HR English. 'Promote' implies a pay/title upgrade, not a hiring step.
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After the final round, the team needed to ___ a decision between two equally strong candidates.
We 'make a decision' — the standard collocation. In hiring, you 'make a hiring decision' or 'make an offer'. 'Reach a decision' is also correct, especially after deliberation. 'Take a decision' is accepted in British English. 'Form a decision' is not standard.
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We extended an ___ to the candidate and gave her five business days to respond.
We 'extend an offer' in hiring language. 'Extend an offer' is the formal HR collocation for making a job offer: extend an offer, receive an offer, accept an offer, decline an offer. 'Make an offer' is also used informally. 'Invitation' and 'proposal' are not standard terms in job-offer contexts.
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The company uses a structured interview process to reduce ___ in hiring decisions and improve fairness.
We 'reduce bias' in hiring and DE&I language. 'Bias' is the standard term for systematic unfairness in evaluation: reduce bias, address bias, mitigate bias. 'Subjectivity' is related but broader. 'Noise' is a statistical term (from Kahneman et al.) used in decision science, increasingly in HR, but less common.