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Glossary terms: T

  • November 25, 2025
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Term

Definition

Product

Talent

The candidate, resource, contractor, consultant, worker

Contingent Staffing

Talent Management System

aka Applicant Tracking System, Learning Management System, and Performance Management System.

A suite of Human Resource solutions that unite talent acquisition, performance management, employee development, compensation management, and succession planning.

 

Talent Pool

A pool of talent that has been submitted through the Beeline platform by the supplier

Contingent Staffing

Talent Profile

The information that makes up the user in the Beeline platform, including their roles and user types.

Contingent Staffing

Targeted Work Order

aka preidentified

When a resource is identified outside of a requisition, the client can use a Targeted Work Order which consists of the job title, the resource name and the work order or assignment information.

 

Tax Job Category

Beeline platform setting that applies the appropriate taxes based on country, state, county, and/or city taxes based on the location of the job performance.

 

Taxes

A compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions

Services Procurement

Tech Assessment

An observation of how and what a client has configured in the Beeline platform.

Contingent Staffing

Template

Examples can be request, SOW, comp bid

Services Procurement

Temps

aka contractor.

Applies to blue collar positions, such as light industrial, administrative, or clerical workers. Temps usually work at the direction of the client's hiring manager.

Those engagements are typically assignments through the Beeline platform.

 

Tenure

Length of service on current assignment. Configuration of gaps in service can be defined to determine a break in service.

Contingent Staffing

Tenure

The total duration of days, weeks, months, years of when a consultant starts at a client's site to the end of their last contract.

Services Procurement

Tenure

The total duration of days, weeks, months, years of when a consultant starts at a client's site to the end of their last contract.

 

Third-Party Administrator

 A scaled-back Managed Service Provider (MSP) delivering administrative support.

A third-party administrator is typically not held to the same standard as a full-fledged MSP because of its limited scope.

 

Time & Materials

T&M (initialism)

Projects are paid based on hours worked by individual workers.

Services Procurement

Time Entry

The method by which talent defines the hours worked in a given work period.

Contingent Staffing

Timecard

The submission of payment using a timecard (hours/day)

Services Procurement

Timesheet

aka Timecard; the converged term is Timesheet.

A record of the amount of time a contractor has spent at work, on a particular job, or project, or working for a specific client. 

Contingent Staffing

Timesheet Approver

The individual responsible for approving timesheets submitted by a consultant. The timesheet is not processed on an invoice until it is approved.

Typically, the hiring manager is the timesheet manager and approver.

 

TMS

Talent Management System

Aka Applicant Tracking System, Learning Management System, and Performance Management System.

A suite of Human Resource solutions that unite talent acquisition, performance management, employee development, compensation management, and succession planning.

 

Tool Agnostic

A service approach where the service provider is not aligned with a particular software or "tool," but rather understands a wide array of available tools and selects the best one based on fit, process, and the client needs.

 

Translation

T9N (initialism)

Simply converting the meaning of text in one language into another.

In a software product, translated content usually includes the user interface, documentation, packaging and marketing collateral. Most translation work is done by professionals, although some companies use of ‘community’-translation and machine-translation.

 

trueRATE

Beeline feature that allows for customized bill rates based on varying rate components

Contingent Staffing​​​​​

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