Master the collocations for screening candidates, conducting interviews, assessing skills, and extending offers.
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The recruiter used a standardised rubric to ___ candidates based on their CV and cover letter.
Screen candidates is the standard recruitment collocation for the initial evaluation of applicants. 'Filter through all' and 'check around' are informal. 'Sort away' implies rejection rather than evaluation.
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All shortlisted candidates were invited to ___ with two senior engineers and the hiring manager.
Conduct interviews (or 'interview candidates') is the standard hiring collocation for formal evaluation conversations. 'Speak to around' and 'talk with out' are informal. 'Meet along' doesn't convey the evaluative purpose of an interview.
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The take-home task was designed to ___ skills in distributed systems and API design.
Assess skills is the standard technical hiring collocation for evaluating a candidate's abilities in a structured way. 'Measure along' and 'check out' are informal. 'Test around' is imprecise.
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After a strong final round, the team agreed to ___ an offer to the principal engineer candidate.
Extend an offer is the formal hiring collocation for presenting a job offer to a candidate. 'Make an offer' is also correct, but 'extend' is the more professional term. 'Give away' and 'push along' are too informal.
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Once accepted, the new hire was scheduled to ___ engineers over four weeks before contributing independently.
Onboard engineers is the standard HR and engineering collocation for the structured process of integrating new hires into a team. 'Train along' implies only technical training. 'Integrate around' and 'set up out' are informal or non-standard.