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Closing, and an accepted offer

A process closes in a terminal stage, which says why; an accepted offer wraps up the rest of the search, and hunt celebrates it with you.

Closing is a stage​

  • A stage can be a terminal stage (Settings → Board). A process in a terminal stage is closed, and the sub stage it's in says why.
  • A new hunt has three terminal stages, in Terminated Processes, whose sub stages are the reasons:
    • My Decision: I withdrew, I declined the offer … I started the job;
    • Their Decision: They rejected me, Role filled …;
    • Paused / Stopped: On hold, They went silent ….
  • Add a reason as a sub stage, or another terminal stage. Make any stage terminal, and what's in it closes; not terminal again, and it opens.
  • A closed process keeps the last stage it reached before ("Got to Interviewing"), which Stats and Cycles count it at.
  • Drop a card on a reason to close it for that. Drag it back onto another column to reopen it, or Reopen it from its page: back to the stage it reached.

Accepting an offer​

  • On an application at its offer (the Offer stage, or the last), "🎉 Accept the offer…" moves it to the stage's Accepted lane, with a note (a start date, say).
  • Accepting isn't an ending: references, checks and the start may still be ahead, so it stays on the board until it's closed as "I started the job". A stage without an Accepted lane closes it as that straight away.
  • Then the other open processes are wrapped up, each as chosen, or all at once:
    • closed (as withdrawn, noting the offer);
    • kept open, with a reminder for tomorrow to tell the recruiter (the default from Screening on);
    • or left as they are.

The celebration​

  • From then on the home page celebrates the offer: the role, pay and note; below, how the search went (days from the first application to a yes, applications, companies, interviews, people, offers); and the people on the process, to thank.
  • "Back to the board" returns the board to the home page (in this browser); "Your offer" in the sidebar shows the celebration again.