Recruiters contacting someone is the recruiting -- the reaching out, telling them what a great company it is, getting them in for an interview, and so on. It's expanding the funnel of interviewees.
Hiring is actually making an offer. That decision is made by different people higher up, and not the recruiter.
Maybe it's different at different companies or industries, but this is my whole experience with it across all sorts of companies in NYC.
(And in response to comment about the Merriam-Webster definition -- meanings change. Lots of tech lingo is different from dictionary definitions. You can say "let's offline this" in a meeting, and you won't find that definition in MW either.)
Well, there are grey areas to a lot of these words we're using in this discussion, as the meaning depends heavily on context and the background of the reader (or recipient).
>> Hiring is actually making an offer.
Is it? So when Github says "we're hiring", does that mean they're making an offer to everyone who contacts them? I tend to think most people will interpret that as "we're accepting applications for open positions".
Of course, if Github says "We're hiring Joe Smith", that's a completely different meaning because it's in a different context.
No, at it's most strict they haven't recruited someone until the company makes an offer. You can be recruited by multiple groups simultaneously. Happens all the time in college sports.
> No, at it's most strict they haven't recruited someone until the company makes an offer. You can be recruited by multiple groups simultaneously. Happens all the time in college sports.
Kinda depends on the context, doesn't it? The context can subtly change how the word is interpreted.
This is how I would interpret the various forms based on my own personal experience -- your interpretations may differ:
Recruiter is recruiting Joe -> Trying to hire Joe
Recruiter has recruited Joe -> Successfully hired Joe
Joe was recruited x times by Google --> Google tried to hire Joe x times
Joe was recruited x times by Google to do Y, Z --> Google assigned or hired Joe to do Y, Z x times
Joe is being recruited -> Someone is trying to hire Joe
Joe was being recruited by A, B, C -> A, B, C trying to hire Joe
We are recruiting Joe to be our representative for X -> Joe has been designated to be the representative
This sub-discussion reminds me of the issues with the phrase "job offer". To native English speakers, it is generally taken to mean "company has offered to hire you with a certain compensation package". To non-native English speakers, particularly it seems continental Europeans, it is generally taken to mean "company has offered to consider you for a job" (as opposed to you approaching them).
Recruiters contacting someone is the recruiting -- the reaching out, telling them what a great company it is, getting them in for an interview, and so on. It's expanding the funnel of interviewees.
Hiring is actually making an offer. That decision is made by different people higher up, and not the recruiter.
Maybe it's different at different companies or industries, but this is my whole experience with it across all sorts of companies in NYC.
(And in response to comment about the Merriam-Webster definition -- meanings change. Lots of tech lingo is different from dictionary definitions. You can say "let's offline this" in a meeting, and you won't find that definition in MW either.)