When to Delete or Cancel a Job Requisition

You may want to delete or cancel job requisitions depending on the situation and what you want to achieve.

If you want to remove a job requisition from the Job Requisitions list, use the Delete Job Requisition action. Note that the requisition status must be Draft - In Progress.

If you no longer need a job requisition, use the Cancel Job Requisition action. The state of active candidates who applied on the job requisition is changed to Rejected. You can use the Cancel Job Requisition action when the job requisition is in one of these phases or states:

• Job Formatting

• Posting

• Open

• Approval - Rejected: If the approval was rejected, you can cancel the requisition or redraft it for editing and resubmit it for approval later.

You can't cancel a job requisition while at least one candidate is in one of these statuses:

• Offer - Pending Approval

• Offer - Extended or later in the selection process (but not in the HR phase) which includes:

  • Offer - Accepted

  • Custom phases after the Offer phase, but not the terminal states Rejected by Employer, Withdrawn by Candidate.

If you want to view job requisitions that were canceled, use the Include Inactive Requisitions filter on the Job Requisitions list.