Details
Role
A free-text field for the role, team, and what success looks like. This is prose, separate from your criteria, and it’s what a reader sees before the bullet points.Required and Preferred criteria
Each criterion is one plain sentence, sorted into Required or Preferred. Required criteria count double compared with preferred ones when Staffer works out a candidate’s match score. For how to phrase them so they score well, see Write criteria that score well. Type a criterion into the row at the bottom of either section and press Enter to add it. The row clears so you can add another. Each criterion can be up to 400 characters, and a brief holds 30 across both sections combined. Once you hit that, the add row disappears until you remove one. There’s no drag-to-reorder, and no way to switch a criterion from Preferred to Required (or back) in place. To move one, delete it and retype it in the other section. The retyped criterion counts as a new one, so candidates’ earlier scores for the old wording don’t carry over to it.Notes
A free-text field for anything you want the agent to keep in mind that shouldn’t appear anywhere candidate-facing: internal constraints, hiring-manager preferences, budget context. It holds up to 4,000 characters, and only appears once the job has been saved at least once. Anyone in your workspace who opens the job can read Notes. They’re never shown to candidates, never on the public listing, and never included in a share link. The agent does read them, including when it decides how to search for candidates, but Notes are never used to score a candidate and never copied into the brief, criteria, or listing.Saving
Edits to Details, Role, or criteria save when you click Save, at the top right of the tab. It shows Saving while it’s in flight, and Saved once it lands. If you close the page before saving, your edits are still there when you come back.If the job is closed, the whole brief is read-only: the toolbar shows “Position closed — brief is locked. Reopen to edit.” instead of Save. Reopen the position to edit it again. See Close, reopen or delete a job.
When the agent edits while you work
The agent can update the brief while you’re working on it. If it saves a change while you have unsaved edits, Staffer keeps your version on screen and shows that a newer version exists. It asks you once whether to keep your edits or see the update. Your edits aren’t merged with the agent’s, so you choose one version or the other. The same applies to the job’s listing and its process.Common questions
Can I reorder my criteria?
Can I reorder my criteria?
No. New ones always go to the end of their section. If the order matters to you, write them in the order you want from the start.
I meant to mark a criterion Required, not Preferred. How do I fix it?
I meant to mark a criterion Required, not Preferred. How do I fix it?
Delete it from Preferred and retype it under Required. There’s no in-place switch, and the retyped version is a new criterion with no history of its own.
Do Notes affect a candidate's match score?
Do Notes affect a candidate's match score?
No. Notes steer how the agent talks about the role and how it searches. Only the brief’s criteria feed into scoring.
Create a job
Start a brief from a description instead of a blank form.
How match scores work
How Required and Preferred criteria turn into a score.