How to Review Applications and Change Their Status in WP Career Board

How to review applications in WP Career Board: open the applicants for a job, read an application, filter by status, change a status, use the Board layout, and export the applicants to a CSV file.

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In this tutorial you will review the applications for a job, change their status, and see the applicants as a board. You need the free WP Career Board plugin, installed and active. It takes about four minutes. There are six steps. Open the applicants for a job. Read an application. Filter by status. Change a status. Switch to the Board layout. Then export the applicants. Step one. Open the applicants for a job. You are signed in as an employer. In the employer dashboard, click Applications. The Job bar at the top shows which job you are looking at, and how many people applied. Click it to pick another job. Step two. Read an application. The applicants are listed on the left, newest first. Click a name to open that person on the right. Below Rating and notes, you see their cover letter. Under it is their resume, if they uploaded one, to download. With Pro, you also see their answers to your application questions, and can view their resume. Step three. Filter by status. The chips above the list narrow the applicants. Click Shortlisted to see only the people you have shortlisted. Each chip shows how many people are in it. Step four. Change a status. In the panel on the right, the status list shows where this person is in your hiring. The choices are Submitted, Reviewing, Shortlisted, Rejected and Hired. Pick one, and it saves at once. The candidate is told by email. Choosing Rejected sends a kind not selected message. So choose with care. Step five. Switch to the Board layout. Click Board, beside List. Each column is a status, and each applicant is a card. To move someone, drag the card to another column, or use the Move to list on the card. Step six. Export the applicants. Above the list, Export CSV is here. It downloads every applicant for this job as a spreadsheet file, ready for Google Sheets or Excel. That is all six. Open the applicants for a job, read an application, filter by status, change a status, switch to the Board layout, and export the applicants. You can now review applications. Next in this series: Rate applicants and keep notes for your team.