What happens when I deactivate a job?
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Written by Customer Support
Updated over a week ago

When you deactivate a job in Dover, there are different deactivation reasons for that you can select from. Based on the reason selected, Dover will take different actions:

🎉 I Made a Hire!

Congrats on making a hire! 🎉

Action item(s) for you as the Hiring Manager:

1️⃣ Close out active candidates in your pipeline. Dover can send rejection notes to those candidates if you select them during the deactivation process. Dover will let those candidates know that the role has been filled. For any candidates who are not selected during deactivation, you will be responsible for letting them know that the role has been filled.

Dover will handle the following:

1️⃣ Dover will no longer send new outreach to qualified candidates.

2️⃣ Dover will stop sending scheduling reminders for candidates currently in the process.

3️⃣ If you have the job posted through Dover via any of our supported job boards, Dover will deactivate the job posts.

4️⃣ Candidates responding to past outreach will still be sent to Slack, but Dover will let these candidates know that the role has been filled.

5️⃣ If you're using Dover for interviews, all calls will be canceled and candidates will be told that the position is filled.

🚫 I’m no longer looking to hire for this role / This job has been de-priortized

Action item(s) for you as the Hiring Manager:

1️⃣ Close out active candidates in your pipeline. Dover can send rejection notes to those candidates if you select them during the deactivation process. Dover will let those candidates know that the role has been filled. For any candidates who are not selected during deactivation, you will be responsible for letting them know that you are no longer hiring for the role.

Dover will handle the following:

1️⃣ Dover will no longer send new outreach to qualified candidates.

2️⃣ Dover will stop sending scheduling reminders for candidates currently in the process.

3️⃣ If you have the job posted through Dover via any of our supported job boards, Dover will deactivate the job posts.

4️⃣ Candidates responding to past outreach as well as any scheduled candidates will be forwarded to the hiring manager’s email address on file for direct correspondence/next steps.

5️⃣ If you're using Dover for interviews, all calls will be canceled and candidates will be told that you’re no longer hiring.

🚫 I no longer want to use Dover for this role

Action item(s) for you as the Hiring Manager:

1️⃣ Close out active candidates in your pipeline. Dover can send rejection notes to those candidates if you select them during the deactivation process. For any candidates who are not selected during deactivation, you will be responsible for reaching out to them. Candidates responding to past outreach as well as any scheduled candidates will be forwarded to the hiring manager’s email address on file for direct correspondence/next steps.

Dover will handle the following:

1️⃣ Dover will no longer send new outreach to qualified candidates.

2️⃣ Dover will stop sending scheduling reminders for candidates currently in the process.

3️⃣ If you have the job posted through Dover via any of our supported job boards, Dover will deactivate the job posts.

4️⃣ Candidates responding to past outreach as well as any scheduled candidates will be forwarded to the hiring manager’s email address on file for direct correspondence/next steps.

5️⃣ If you're using Dover for interviews, all calls will be canceled and candidates will be told that you’re no longer hiring.

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