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Job management

The Jobs area lists your roles and their status. Jobs move through a lifecycle, and the actions available on a job depend on its current status and on your permissions.

Job statuses

StatusMeaning
DraftBeing prepared, not yet visible
Pending reviewSubmitted and awaiting approval
ScheduledApproved with a future go-live date
LivePublished and visible to candidates
ExpiredPast its expiry date
FilledClosed because the role was filled
ClosedClosed without filling
DeletedRemoved

Creating a job

Create a new job from the Jobs area. You start by entering the job title, then choose how to begin:
  • Create blank job — start from an empty form, seeded with the title you typed.
  • Copy from existing — as you type, Studio suggests recent jobs with similar titles. Pick one to copy its details (title, employment type, location, salary, and description) into the new job, then adjust from there.
Either way, fill in the remaining details and the new job starts as a Draft, so you can save your progress and come back to it before anyone else sees it.
Copying from an existing job creates a brand-new draft — it never changes the original. The go-live and expiry dates are not carried over, so set the schedule for the new job yourself.
You need permission to create jobs to do this — see Permissions and access.

Editing a job

Open a job to edit its details. Drafts can be edited freely. You can keep refining a job until you are ready to put it forward for review.
Jobs that originate from a connected ATS are managed by that system and are read-only in Studio. You can view them, but the editing and lifecycle actions below don’t apply.

Approving and publishing a job

Getting a job live is a two-step path so that someone reviews a role before candidates can see it:
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Submit for review
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From a Draft, choose Submit for review. The job moves to Pending review. If you change your mind, Withdraw from review returns it to Draft.
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Approve
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Someone with review permission opens the pending job and chooses Approve. What happens next depends on the job’s go-live date:
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  • With no go-live date, or a date in the past, the job goes Live immediately.
  • With a future go-live date, the job becomes Scheduled and publishes automatically when that date arrives.
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    A reviewer can instead Reject the job — which sends it back to Draft with a reason for the author — or Unschedule a scheduled job to return it to Draft.

    Scheduling publication and expiry

    Two optional dates control when a job is visible:
    • Go-live — when the job should be published. Set a future date to schedule it; leave it empty to publish as soon as it is approved.
    • Expiry — when the job should automatically retire. Leave it empty for an open-ended job that stays live until you close or expire it.
    If you don’t configure scheduling, jobs go live immediately on approval and do not expire on their own.

    Closing and removing jobs

    Once a job is live (or earlier in its lifecycle), you can take it down or close it out:
    ActionEffect
    ExpireTake a live job down once it has run its course
    UnpublishRemove a live job from the site and return it to Draft (asks for a reason)
    Mark as filledClose the role because it was filled
    Close without fillingClose the role without a hire (asks for a reason)
    DeleteRemove the job
    Some actions ask for a short reason. Reasons, and the actions taken, are captured on the job’s audit trail so there is a record of how a role was handled.
    Only the actions valid for a job’s current status are offered. For example, Approve only appears on a job that is pending review, and Expire only on a job that is live.

    Permissions and access

    The actions you can take on a job depend on your role:
    CapabilityWhat it allows
    ReadView jobs and their details
    CreateCreate new jobs
    EditUpdate jobs, submit for review, expire, mark as filled, and close
    ReviewApprove, reject, unschedule, and unpublish jobs
    DeleteDelete jobs
    Job-level permissions also govern visibility, so people only see and act on the roles they are allowed to. See Users and permissions for how roles are configured.

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