Simple Job Board models the work cleanly: jobs are one custom post type, applications are another, and application form fields live in postmeta against each application record. The default admin handles per-job moderation but the cross-role view a hiring manager actually needs — every applicant for every open role with stage and notes — is exactly what the default list does not offer.

SleekView reads both CPTs and joins application meta back onto each row. Applicant name, role, submission date, resume URL, stage, and any custom form field — LinkedIn URL, salary expectation, screening questions — promote to configurable columns. Stage and status become editable cells, so a recruiter can advance a candidate from Phone screen to Onsite without opening the application record.

The grid mirrors the way hiring teams actually work: a saved view per stage, a saved view per role, a saved view for new applications this week. Bulk actions replace the per-record clicking when a posting closes and ten candidates need to be moved to Rejected at once. CSV export hands recruiting the column set they need for an offline review or a candidate handoff to another team.

Hiring is a pipeline problem, and pipelines need cross-job visibility. A hiring manager running three open roles does not just want to see applicants for the Senior Designer role; they want to see every Phone screen this week across every role, every Onsite scheduled for next week, every applicant who has been Reviewing for more than ten days. Simple Job Board captures all the data that question needs — applications are linked to jobs, custom form fields land in postmeta, stage and status can be tracked through meta — but the default admin shows the per-job slice and hides the cross-job view that recruiting actually runs.

The cost of that gap is process, not data: stale candidates that sit in Reviewing because nobody saw them, top applicants that fall out of the loop because no single screen showed all of recruiting's activity. Treating applications as a real grid that crosses jobs turns Simple Job Board into a working applicant tracker rather than a list of postings. Saved views become the rituals of the recruiting role, and inline stage edits cut the cycle time on a candidate move from minutes to seconds.