job candidate
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- noun
- /dʒɑb ˈkændɪdɪt/
- During the interview process, the company carefully evaluated each job candidate to find the best fit.
- qualified job candidates
- gay job candidates
- heterosexual job candidates
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Examples
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Participants read a summary of a job candidate's qualifications and a personal statement.
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Employers seek job candidates with critical thinking abilities, great written and oral communication skills, and honesty, among other characteristics.
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Now, he says, more job candidates are starting to apply.
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Gentlemen, we have a job candidate here.
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Will we start asking all job candidates to wear exactly the same clothes?
Blog text (3) -
I had essentially the same experience as the job candidate you mentioned in the first paragraph.
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Towards the end of the interview, the job candidate will turn into the interviewer for a few minutes.
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Further, with an oversupply of job candidates, employers will start to lower salary offers.
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Almost every employer asks its job candidates to submit an application into an electronic database.
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Whether they're looking for postdocs or new faculty positions, job candidates increasingly want to know which schools "take care of their own."
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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2.3
A person being considered for a job, award or prize
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A person who asks for something, for example a job or a place at a university
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A person who is likely to be chosen for a job or prize
How Suitable
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2.3
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3.5
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1.0
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152
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: 'job' (a paid position) + 'candidate' (a person being considered) directly yields 'a person being considered for a job.' There is no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension and the same logical construction exists in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Job candidate comes from the older word candidate: in Roman times, people who wanted a public job wore bright white clothes so they stood out and were easy to notice. So a job candidate today is someone who 'applies for' or tries to get a job, and the picture of a person standing out helps you remember it.