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Candidates reach your jobs through your career page, the public job board at jobs.staffer.com, or a listing link you share directly. Every listing has one apply button, and it works the same everywhere: on the job board, on your career page and in the candidate’s own Staffer dashboard.

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Two ways to apply

After clicking apply, the candidate picks how to send their application.
For a candidate who signs in with Google, Microsoft or LinkedIn. A candidate who hasn’t set up their Staffer profile does that first. Staffer then sends their profile, so there’s no upload or form.A second application this way to the same job is refused: “You already applied to this role.”
There’s no free-text message box on the application. Every application already gets an acknowledgement.

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The privacy notice

Candidates aren’t asked to tick a consent box to apply. A privacy notice tells them how their details are used, and it never blocks an application. If you’ve turned on your own candidate privacy policy (Settings → Organization → Compliance → Policies), it’s linked right next to Staffer’s own. If you haven’t turned it on, only Staffer’s policy is linked. See AI policies. The only consent candidates are asked for is optional: whether you can consider them for future roles at your company. An anonymous listing never links your privacy policy, because it would name your company.

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What the candidate gets afterward

A candidate who uploads a CV goes straight to their private application page, and gets an email confirming the application with the private link. They use the link, without an account, to check their status, message you and complete process steps. On an anonymous listing, the email doesn’t name your company. A candidate who applies while signed in doesn’t get an email. The application appears in their Staffer account. See Applying to a job and Tracking your application.

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How it lands in your workspace

The candidate appears on the job’s Candidates tab and on the Applications page, at In review, the same as a candidate you promote.
  • Your job’s process steps start right away, the same as for any other candidate.
  • Staffer scores them within moments. You don’t need to click Rescore.
  • Your Candidates and Applications lists show it under Source as Applied, distinct from Sourced (you found them) or Manual (you added them by hand).
  • You get a “New application” notification if you’re subscribed to the job and have New application in your workspace turned on. You’re subscribed to jobs you create. For other jobs, turn on Notify me in the job’s … menu.
If Staffer can’t read the résumé, it still creates the application from what the candidate typed and keeps the file. The profile has less detail until you click Re-process résumé on the file in the candidate’s profile panel.

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Closed jobs

Once a job is closed, its listing can stay visible for a while, but candidates can’t apply. The page shows Applications closed instead of the apply button. See Close, reopen or delete a job.

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What this doesn’t do

Staffer doesn’t post your listing to LinkedIn, Indeed or any other job board. The External jobs on the public board at jobs.staffer.com are postings Staffer brings in from elsewhere, not your listings going out. There’s no CAPTCHA. The résumé form checks for bots in the background and limits how often someone can submit.

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Common questions

Yes, and Staffer won’t catch it. Staffer doesn’t compare applications across the two ways of applying or across different emails, so you can end up with two applications from the same person.
Yes. The candidate signs in with Google, Microsoft or LinkedIn, which creates a Staffer account if they don’t have one.
No. The shortlist is only for people you find in a search. Anyone who applies starts at In review.

Create and publish a listing

Get a job onto your career page and the public board in the first place.

How match scores work

What Staffer reads to score a candidate the moment they land.