Evergreen requisition
Also called evergreen role, pipeline req.
A permanently open posting used to collect candidates for a role the company hires continuously — or isn't hiring for right now at all.
Companies that hire the same profile constantly — support, sales, delivery drivers, some engineering pools — keep a posting live year-round rather than reopening it each time. Applying to one puts you in a pool that gets reviewed when a specific seat opens, which may be next week or next quarter.
The pathological version is the posting kept open for a role that's frozen, either to maintain a candidate pipeline or because nobody closed it. A useful tell is the posted date: a listing that has been live for four months with a generic description and no urgency in the language is usually not an active search.
Neither is a reason to skip applying, but both are a reason not to wait on one. Treat an evergreen application as a lottery ticket with a long expiry, keep it in your tracker, and put your follow-up energy into processes with a named recruiter and a stated timeline.
Job posting
The employer's public description of a role — part specification, part marketing, and rarely a literal list of requirements.
Ghosting
When an employer stops responding at any stage of a hiring process without ever declining you.
Application tracker
A single record of every role you applied to, with its date, stage, contact, and next action — the job seeker's side of an ATS.