People apply for your jobs with a CV, and you move each applicant through the stages of hiring.
For a small company that hires a few people a year.
Start the job applications blueprint on Typestate
Asked you for the address that gets the applications and the address your emails come from.
Started Job applications: 3 record types, 7 web endpoints.
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Each step has 3 parts: who starts it, how it reaches your backend, and the action that answers.
The rule you will want to change first
Each move of an applicant is kept with its note, and a hired or rejected applicant moves no further.
It lives in the action Move an Application. Tell your agent how you want it instead: one sentence changes, and you read the change before it goes Live.
The map shows the records it keeps, the actions it runs and the services it calls.
What it keeps
What it does
What it reaches
One job you hire for, open or closed.
Everyone sees the jobs. Only your key posts and closes them.
One person who applied for a job, with their CV and their stage.
Anyone may apply. Only your key moves applications. The Monday digest reads them too, so the read is open to the actions.
One move of an application from one stage to the next, with a note.
Only your key reads and writes the moves.
Open an action to read its steps: each sentence, with the calls that do it under it.
From the webPOST /jobs
Titletext, needed
Descriptiontext, needed
Create a Job with the given title and description, and slug set to the title written for a web address.
Add a Job
set description to input.description
set slug to the slug of the given title, for a web address
set title to input.title
Answer with that Job's slug.
Answer
slug is job.slug
From the webGET /jobs
Nothing. It needs no input.
List the Jobs whose state is open, newest first.
jobs is
Find Jobs where
state is "open"
sorted by created_at, highest first
For each Job, answer its title, slug and description.
rows is
each job of jobs as
description is job.description
slug is job.slug
title is job.title
Answer
jobs is rows
From the webPOST /jobs/close
Jobtext, needed
Find the Job whose slug is the given job.When none matches, refuse with "No such job".
job is
Find the first Job where
slug is input.job
when none refuse "No such job"
Change that Job's state to closed.
Change the Job where
id is job.id
set state to "closed"
Answer with that Job's slug, and closed as the state.
Answer
slug is job.slug
state is "closed"
From the webPOST /jobs/apply
Jobtext, needed
Nametext, needed
EmailEmail, needed
Notetext, optional
Cva file, needed
Find the Job whose slug is the given job and whose state is open.When none matches, refuse with "This job is not open".
job is
Find the first Job where
slug is input.job
state is "open"
when none refuse "This job is not open"
Create an Application with job_id set to that Job's id, and name, email and note set to the given name, email and note.Store the uploaded CV as that Application's cv.
Add an Application
set email to input.email
set job_id to job.id
set name to input.name
set note to input.note
Attaches a file to a record with file = the given cv, id = the application's id, record = "Application", slot = "cv".
Email the given email with the subject "We got your application", saying that Job's title.
Send an email
to input.email
template "Apply for a Job Email"
title job.title
Email the HIRING_EMAIL setting with the subject "New application", saying that Job's title and the given name and email.
Send an email
to the setting HIRING_EMAIL
template "New Application Email"
email input.email
name input.name
title job.title
Answer with that Application's id.
Answer
application is application.id
From the webPOST /applications/move
Applicationreference to an Application, needed
Stageone of screening, interview, offer, hired, needed
Notetext, optional
Find the Application whose id is the given application.When none matches, refuse with "No such application".When that Application's stage is hired or rejected, refuse with "This application is closed".
application is
Find the first Application where
id is input.application
when none refuse "No such application"
When application.stage is one of "hired" or "rejected"
Refuse "This application is closed"
Create a StageChange with application_id set to that Application's id, from_stage set to its stage, to_stage set to the given stage, and note set to the given note.Change that Application's stage to the given stage.
Add a StageChange
set application_id to application.id
set from_stage to application.stage
set note to input.note
set to_stage to input.stage
Change the Application where
id is application.id
set stage to input.stage
Answer with that Application's id, and the given stage as the stage.
Answer
application is application.id
stage is input.stage
From the webPOST /applications/reject
Applicationreference to an Application, needed
Notetext, optional
Find the Application whose id is the given application.When none matches, refuse with "No such application".When that Application's stage is hired or rejected, refuse with "This application is closed".
application is
Find the first Application where
id is input.application
when none refuse "No such application"
When application.stage is one of "hired" or "rejected"
Refuse "This application is closed"
Create a StageChange with application_id set to that Application's id, from_stage set to its stage, to_stage set to rejected, and note set to the given note.Change that Application's stage to rejected.
Add a StageChange
set application_id to application.id
set from_stage to application.stage
set note to input.note
set to_stage to "rejected"
Change the Application where
id is application.id
set stage to "rejected"
Find the Job whose id is that Application's job_id.When none matches, refuse with "No such job".
job is
Find the first Job where
id is application.job_id
when none refuse "No such job"
Email that Application's email with the subject "Your application", saying that Job's title.
Send an email
to application.email
template "Reject an Application Email"
title job.title
Answer with that Application's id, and rejected as the stage.
Answer
application is application.id
stage is "rejected"
From the webGET /applications
Jobtext, needed
Stageone of new, screening, interview, offer, hired, rejected, optional
Find the Job whose slug is the given job.When none matches, refuse with "No such job".
job is
Find the first Job where
slug is input.job
when none refuse "No such job"
List the Applications whose job_id is that Job's id, first applied first.When a stage is given, list only the Applications at that stage.
applications is
Find Applications where
job_id is job.id
stage is input.stage
sorted by created_at, lowest first
For each Application, answer its id, name, email, note, stage, created_at as the time it applied, and a link to its cv that works for one hour.
rows is an empty list
For each application in applications
Lists the files of a record with id = the application's id, record = "Application", slot = "cv", as files.
Makes a link to one file with expires in = 3600, file = the id of the first item of the value named files, as cv link.
Adds an object with (application = the application's id, applied at = the application's created at, cv = the value named cv link, email = the application's email, name = the application's name, note = the application's note, stage = the application's stage) to rows.
Answer
applications is rows
A timer, every Monday at 08:00, Berlin time
Nothing. It needs no input.
List the Applications whose created_at is 7 days ago or later.
applications is
Find Applications where
created_at is on or after now - 7 days
sorted by created_at, lowest first
For each of those Applications, find the Job whose id is its job_id, and keep its name and that Job's title for the email.An Application whose Job is gone is left out.
lines is an empty list
For each application in applications
job is
Find the first Job where
id is application.job_id
when none skip this one
Adds "{the application's name} for {the job's title}" to lines.
When there is at least one, email the HIRING_EMAIL setting with the subject "Applications this week", saying the count and those names.
When number of lines is more than 0
Send an email
to the setting HIRING_EMAIL
template "Send the Weekly Digest Email"
count the number of the value named lines as a number
names the items of the value named lines joined with " "
People sign up and sign in with an email address and a password, or with a provider you add, such as Google.
| What it does | Who may call | Address |
|---|---|---|
| Your careers page lists the open jobs. | anyone | GET /jobs |
| Your careers page posts each application here, with the CV. | anyone | POST /jobs/apply |
| Only you, with your key, post a job. | you, with your key | POST /jobs |
| Only you, with your key, close a job. | you, with your key | POST /jobs/close |
| Only you, with your key, move an applicant. | you, with your key | POST /applications/move |
| Only you, with your key, turn an applicant down. | you, with your key | POST /applications/reject |
| Only you, with your key, read the applications. | you, with your key | GET /applications |
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