TTP - Time to Placement: The length of time from when you are laid off (or resign, or lose your job) to placement in a new, comparable position. Depending on the duration, it may seem as devastating as thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.

Time Is Our Friend - Spoken when advance planning or starting early on a project. For example, creating a "Plan B" for your career, updating C.V.s and resumes, expanding your contact network before you are in the jaws of a crisis.
 
Transparent, Transparency - Open, visible, accessible, publicly accountable. Without privacy or secrets. "Our actions need to be totally transparent to our shareholders.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - The address you type into a browser to find a website. Looks something like this: http://www.cover-letters.com. And it’s pronounced U-R-L.

USB (Universal Serial Bus) - The way you connect flash drives and other peripherals like cameras, phones, and printers to your PC. "Does your computer have a USB or will you need to use a serial cable."

Value Proposition - The marketing argument that describes why a company should hire you. Low price, high profitability, repeat patents, documented accomplishments, historical successes, timesavings, and unique skillsets can all be part of a value proposition.

VC's, Venture Capitalists - Entrepreneurs who fund risky early-stage technology companies with a view to growing the companies rapidly, selling out, and getting a high return on their initial investments. Sometimes called "Vulture Capitalists" for their bottom-line, dollars-only orientation.

Visioning - Instead of "brainstorming," it's now visioning. Same circus, different clowns. "We need to have a visioning session to re-launch the product."

Wandering Generality - A job candidate with vague or conflicting goals and objectives. See riding your horse in all directions.
 
Want To - The deep desire to pursue a career direction. A person can be highly qualified or heavily experienced in an area, yet not want to pursue it. Others can accomplish the near impossible if they really want to. Example: a student who is turned down by eight medical schools, so goes to Guadalajara, learns Spanish, takes an equivalency test, then completes his clinical rotations at a medical school in the U.S.
 
Watchers Watching the Watchers - Having to gain the approval of many others or several layers of bureaucracy before making or implementing decisions.

Webinar - A meeting or seminar conducted on the Internet. Materials are online and the speakers use a chat room to talk with attendees. Some webinars employ Web cameras and video. "Once you come on board, we need to get you on a webinar to get you up to speed."

Wet Signature - An original signature. The old-fashioned kind, written in ink on a real piece of paper. 

What Goes Around, Comes Around - A business cliché saying that if you treat people well, that goodness will come back to you. Conversely, if you treat others poorly, it will eventually catch up to you, and you may be shunned, abandoned, or humiliated in a time of need. See quid pro quo.
 
Whiteboard - Brainstorming by listing ideas on a large write-on/wipe-off board. "Let's whiteboard your expectations and our expectations to see if we have a match."

Widow-Maker Position - A job that defeats two competent people in a row. It will almost certainly defeat a third one, no matter how competent. The solution is to abolish the "widow-maker" position and restructure the job. (Peter Drucker)