TIP glossary

TIP means Talent Intelligence Platform. These terms describe the work you see in TIP. Cygnify can customise application stage labels.

Term	Meaning
Account Manager	The Cygnify contact managing the client relationship and eligible operational requests.
Actions	The Dashboard tab for work needing attention, requests and updates.
Activity	The Analytics view counting work recorded during the selected period.
Application	One candidate’s consideration for one Job. A person can have several applications.
Candidate	A person being considered for a Job.
Candidate Kanban	A board showing applications in columns by stage.
Client Admin	Your company’s user who manages team access and can reveal interview feedback. The invitation menu calls this role Admin.
Current	The Analytics view showing a snapshot of where applications stand.
Cutover	The changeover from the current Job to a replacement Job in a Slot.
Cygnify Admin	A Cygnify user who approves new paid Slot requests and manages platform and commercial setup.
Draft	Saved work that you can finish later. Draft feedback still needs submission; a draft Job still needs its hiring setup.
Feedback window	The period when TIP accepts an interviewer’s feedback. Check the round’s due date and availability.
Flex Slot	Additional hiring capacity requested for Cygnify’s review under your Plan.
Funnel Analytics	Cumulative application progress and the proportions reaching later stages.
Hiring Manager	A client user who defines hiring needs, reviews candidates and makes eligible decisions on assigned work.
Interviewer	A person assigned to assess a candidate in an interview. Interviewer-only users work through their feedback inbox.
Intelligence	TIP’s in-development feature for asking questions about available hiring information.
JD	Job description, explaining the work and requirements.
Job	The hiring brief for a position.
KIV / Hold	Keep in view, holding an application for later consideration.
Park	Put hiring work on a Job on hold, following Cygnify’s review of the request and Slot impact.
Pipeline	The stages an application passes through during hiring.
Plan	Your company’s agreed service arrangement and capacity with Cygnify.
Recommendation	An interviewer’s suggested next step, recorded with their feedback.
Reveal	Make a round’s submitted feedback visible to eligible hiring team members and lock those submissions.
Round	One step in an interview process, such as a technical interview.
Slot	Hiring capacity that can be assigned to a Job.
Submitted	An application stage indicating a candidate has been put forward for client review. “Feedback submitted” means an interviewer has sent their assessment.
Swap	Replace the Job in a Slot through a reviewed request and, where needed, a scheduled changeover.
Talent Director	A Cygnify lead overseeing hiring delivery and eligible operational requests.
Talent Partner	The Cygnify recruiter coordinating candidates and hiring work for a Job.

See Analytics for reporting examples, Jobs and Slots for capacity changes and interview feedback for submission and reveal.