Delete Job Posting

Access level required: HR Admin / HR Editor

IMPORTANT: We recommend you don’t manually delete (Trash) active job postings, but instead set the job’s status to ‘Expired’. Then, leave the job as expired for minimum 1 month, and then manually move it to Trash. Doing this instead of just deleting a job posting helps to stop ‘404: page not found’ error pages from occurring, and alert Google to remove the expired job from its index.

The Careers plugin has a feature in the Basic Settings called “Remove Expired Jobs” that if set to enabled, will automatically move all expired jobs into Trash, and runs once, every 30 days. By default this setting is not enabled.

If you must delete a job posting, be aware that once it’s moved to Trash, ‘404: page not found’ error pages will be encountered when a person tries to view the now trashed job posting. Also, when you permanently delete it (or empty the Trash), you can’t get it back.

Really want to Delete? Okay.

  • In the WordPress dashboard click on Careers, then View Careers
  • On the Careers page, hover over the Job Posting you want to Delete and secondary options will appear
  • Click Trash to move your Job Posting to the Trash Bin
Screen showing the Trash link in order to delete a Job Posting
  • To permanently delete the Job Posting, click the Trash Bin link
  • Now in the Trash Bin, hover over the Job Posting, and secondary options will appear
  • Click Delete Permanently (There is no undo for this)
Screen showing the link to permanently delete a Job Posting