Pipeline stages - Hire

An Application links one Candidate to one Job. It moves through fixed stages:

Stage	Meaning
Application	The person applied, for example through a board’s apply address. CV review works here.
Long list	Sourced, searched or progressed from review.
Short list	You plan to put them forward.
Outreach	You are contacting them.
Interview	You are interviewing them.
CV sent	The client has their CV.
Client rounds (CCM)	The Job’s own client rounds, for example 1st and Final, set per Job.
Offer	The client made an offer.
Placed	Done. Create a placement from here.

Where an Application starts depends on how it arrived: applicants start at Application, people you add or find start at Long list. An Application’s consultants, its Job’s owner, their Managers and Admins move it, edit it and archive it. Everyone else sees its stage and fields read only, and can ask Flo to send the change to the owner.

States

State	Meaning
Active	In the live pipeline.
Kept for matching	Rejected for this Job but available for others. Rejected is a state, not a column.
Closed	Out, with a closed reason.

On the CCM board, colour shows progress: second and later client rounds are amber, Offer is green.