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Schedule rejection for your candidates
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Recruiters can schedule a rejection for a future date and time from the rejection dialog. Until that time, the application stays in its current stage and its status doesn't change. At the scheduled time, Eightfold rejects the candidate and sends the rejection email together. A Rejection scheduled tag marks the pending rejection in the position pipeline and on the candidate profile, and recruiters can edit or cancel it from the application card. Admins set a default delay for the organization, and rejection reason.
Before: Recruiters could schedule only the rejection email, and the application changed to Rejected as soon as the recruiter confirmed.
After: Recruiters can schedule the rejection itself, so the application status and the rejection email change at the same time.
WHY IT MATTERS
Candidates who log in to the career site don't see a Rejected status before they receive the rejection email.
Recruiting teams in different regions or legal entities can each follow their own notification timeline, without recruiters picking a date every time.
FEATURE DETAILS
Who can access | Recruiters and other users who reject candidates from the position pipeline or the candidate profile. Admins set the defaults in the Admin Console. |
Feature type | Default On |
Requirements | Applications v3 is a prerequisite. No other setup is required, because default values apply until an admin changes them. |
GETTING STARTED
Admins: Review the defaults under Scheduled Rejection in Admin Console → Talent Tracking/Talent Acquisition → Miscellaneous → Application Settings, by reading Schedule candidate rejection. Set the default delay, and choose whether recruiters can reject immediately or change the pre-filled date and time.
End users: In the rejection dialog, select Reject On to schedule the rejection, or Reject immediately if your admin allows it, as described in Understand scheduling a candidate rejection. Use the Rejection scheduled tag to see when the rejection will happen.
