@replies

A Twitter update that begins with @username, appears publicly to followers and in a user's Replies tab on Twitter.

Chronological Resume

A resume that shows career information by date, with the most recent first.

COGS

An accounting acronymn for Cost of Goods Sold.

Cold Company

A company that is not actively hiring.

Ecopreneurs

Someone who starts their own business with a sustainable, "green" angle

Employment Branding

The image of your organization as a "great place to work" in the minds of current employees and key stakeholders in the external market (active and passive candidates, clients, customers and others). (Source: Wikipedia)

Follow

Choosing to receive another Twitter user's updates in your personal timeline.

Functional Resume

A resume that emphasizes skills and achievements.

Green Job

"A green-collar job is one that pays family-supporting wages, that produces products for Americans and that improves the environment," says Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Apollo Coalition - a group of business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to reduce foreign oil dependency, cut carbon emissions and expand opportunities for American businesses and workers. According to Angelides, many green collar jobs are a re-make of blue and white collar ones, with a connection to sustainable products, services and ideas.

Guaranteed Issue Insurance Policy

A type of health insurance policy that is issued regardless of a person's medical condition(s). There is typically no individual underwriting and therefore no medical questions on the application.

Hashtag

A hashtag (shown as a pound symbol - #) is a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to tweets on Twitter. They were created to group similar data together and therefore make it easier to search for topics.

Impressions

The number of times that a banner ad is delivered or loaded into a web browser.

Key Person Insurance

Also known as key employee insurance or key man insurance. An insurance policy taken out by a business to compensate that business for financial losses that would arise from the death or extended incapacity of the member of the business specified on the policy.

Keyword

Word(s) chosen by a user to find items within a database. In this case, a user would enter one or more words that are related to a job, industry, education level or company in order to get a search result with relevant jobs.

Keyword Searchable Resume Database

Allows users to perform a search with a tool to find items within a database. In this case, those items are resumes. When the user types one or more keywords into the tool and clicks "submit," a search result comes back. The search result provides all of the resumes that contain those keywords.

Locationless Job

A job that doesn't require you to stay in one location. Examples: sales, telecommuting positions, home health care jobs, construction work, jobs that require constant travel, jobs that enable you to work from home, etc.

Online Confidential Resume

A resume stored in an online database that omits contact and employer information to keep one's job search anonymous.

Real Time

Any updates in "real time" take effect immediately, showing up-to-the minute information.

Resume Tweet

A tweet that briefly describes your background, skills and career preference in 140 characters or less.

RSS

Acronym for Real Simple Syndication. A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works - such as blog entries, news headlines, audio and video - in a standardized format. (Source: Wikipedia)

SG&A

An accounting acronym for Selling, General and Administrative expenses.

Total Compensation

Earnings plus the cost of other benefits for labor.

Tweet

A brief Twitter post of 140 characters or less.

Twitterers

People with Twitter accounts who use Twitter on a regular basis.

Web 2.0

Refers to the second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. (Source: Wikipedia)

Wellness Program

Depending upon the organization, an employee wellness program can include fitness, recreation, social activities and programs to enhance physical, intellectual and spiritual development, benefiting the overall health of employees.