Recruitment Concepts
Summary
The bounded context separates a hiring request, an available position, a person, their application, evaluation rounds, a proposed offer, and onboarding.
Audience
Recruitment operations, hiring stakeholders, product, engineering, QA, support, and architecture teams. Candidate-facing behavior is identified explicitly.
Overview
The bounded context separates a hiring request, an available position, a person, their application, evaluation rounds, a proposed offer, and onboarding.
Core terms
| Concept | Confirmed meaning | Ownership finding |
|---|---|---|
| Job requisition | Hiring request awaiting approval | Carries requester and optional hiring-manager references; authoritative job owner policy is not enforced |
| Job opening | Position available to candidates | May originate from an approved requisition or be created directly |
| Candidate | Person represented once per created application flow | Owns applications, stage history, notes, and document references |
| Candidate application | Link between candidate and opening | Duplicate detection applies per opening and matching contact evidence |
| Interview | Scheduled round for a candidate | Owns feedback entries and a public feedback token |
| Offer | Proposed employment terms and letter reference | Owns revisions and approval evidence |
| Onboarding | Accepted-offer handoff record | Completion coordinates Employee provisioning |
Candidate personal content, interview notes, documents, compensation, and offer terms are sensitive and intentionally excluded from this public documentation.
Requires confirmation
Formal ownership, production policy, authorization parity, and approved operating procedures require confirmation.
Source References
microservices/src/recruitment-service/Domain/Common/Enums.csmicroservices/src/recruitment-service/Domain/Recruitmentmicroservices/src/recruitment-service/Application/Commandsmicroservices/src/recruitment-service/Domain/Recruitment/Onboarding.cs
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See Also
Keywords
- Recruitment
- Hiring lifecycle
- Concepts
Revision Information
- Status: Draft
- Last reviewed: 2026-07-16
- Review cycle: Quarterly