All job-hunt synonyms

noun job-hunt

• bidder — A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
• candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
• handshaker — a person who is or is required to be overtly or ostentatiously friendly: Politicians are often incurable handshakers.
• favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.