How to add applicant tracking to a WordPress job board
Install WP Career Board and WP Career Board Pro, and the applicant tracking is already there. Every job gets its own Kanban board, every application becomes a card on it, and employers drag cards from stage to stage as candidates move through hiring. The stages are set per job board, the application status follows the card, and the whole record stays in your WordPress database.
That is the job a hosted applicant tracking system does, without the second subscription, the second login, or your candidates’ CVs leaving your site.
What changes when applications become cards
A list answers one question: who applied. A board answers the ones that matter once there are more than a handful: who is in screening, who is waiting on an interview, who is close to an offer, and who has gone quiet. You see it in one look instead of reading statuses row by row.
Because each job has its own board, a busy senior search and a quick part-time hire never share a shortlist. Because stages belong to the job board, every role on that board moves through the same columns, and a team that hires differently gets its own board with its own stages.
The board and the status never disagree. Change a status in the applications list and the card moves to match. Move a card into Hired or Rejected and the status changes, the change is logged, and the candidate hears back once. Withdrawn applications leave the board on their own.
What it does not do
An honest list, because it is the fastest way to know if this fits. The pipeline does not schedule interviews, run interview scorecards, generate offer letters, or post one role to dozens of job sites. Hosted tools such as Greenhouse and Workable are built for that, and the comparisons say so plainly.
What you get instead is applicant tracking that lives where your jobs already are: your own domain, your own data, and one licence instead of another subscription. For a plain-language explanation of what a pipeline is for, read what an applicant tracking pipeline is. To weigh it against other WordPress plugins, see the job board plugin comparison.