job candidate

1. 1.

   an applicant who is being considered for a job

   Broaderapplicant

Questions about job candidate

What does job candidate mean?

job candidate means "an applicant who is being considered for a job".

Is job candidate a common word?

job candidate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.