vetting process
Thorough candidate evaluation
A vetting process is a systematic examination of someone's background, qualifications, or suitability before they're hired, appointed, or granted access.
Organizations vet candidates for employment, security clearances, or political office: The vetting process for cabinet nominees includes FBI background checks.
The term implies thoroughness—checking references, verifying credentials, investigating potential problems.
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- background checkInvestigation of someone's history
- scrutinyClose, careful examination
- due diligencePre-transaction reasonable care
- deep diveComprehensive examination of topic
verification · fact checking · security clearance · clearance · investigation · interview · evaluation · assessment · credentials · references · approval · green light · candidate · hiring · trial period · security · applicant · review
- screeningshealth screening, drug test, cancer screening, prenatal screening, genetic screening
- Judicial Appointmentsjudicial nominee, nomination, nominee, confirmation hearing, confirmation vote
- Senate Confirmationsconfirmation vote, nominees, advice and consent, nomination hearings, committee vote
- investigationsinvestigation report, audit, investigation, review, FBI investigation
- Red ScareHUAC, McCarthyism, blacklist, loyalty oaths, Joe McCarthy
- decommunizationstatue removal, lustration, plaque removal, de-Stalinization, denazification
vetting processrubber-stamping
Approving without genuine examination
rubber stamp · going through the motions · quick glance · once-over · quick once-over
vetting processsnap decision
Instant, unreflective determination
gut feeling · whim · shooting from the hip · winging it · impulse
vetting processopen-door policy
Unrestricted access principle
free entry · open enrollment · no questions asked · open admission · self-selection
vetting, vets, vetted, process, processes, processed, processing, processor, procession