The Applications add-on for WP Job Manager creates a job_application post for every submission, with cover letter, resume URL, and status saved in postmeta. The default screen shows that data as a basic CPT list, which means anyone hiring for more than two roles spends the day clicking into individual applications to read context, change status, or jot a note.

SleekView reads the job_application post type and its postmeta together, so each row is a candidate with the job they applied to, their email, current stage, status, and applied date. Filter to a single job and a single stage, sort by applied date, and bulk move candidates between stages. Add custom columns for stage, owner, rejection reason, or interview score, and persist those fields back to postmeta so they show up wherever else you read the data.

Hiring teams stop using ad-hoc spreadsheets to track candidates because the spreadsheet view they actually need now lives next to the resumes. When a senior designer search closes, the audit trail of who looked at whom and why is already in WordPress, not in a third-party tool.

WP Job Manager covers the public side of recruiting well, listing jobs, accepting applications, sending confirmations. The Applications add-on handles storage. What no part of the stack does on its own is run a real hiring pipeline, and that is where most teams either give up and pay for an ATS or build a fragile spreadsheet on top of CSV exports.

Both options break trust with candidates, because a forgotten row in a spreadsheet is a real person waiting on an answer. The job_application data is already structured: a candidate, a job, a status, a timestamp, plus whatever custom fields your application form collects. With a sortable, filterable, multi-column-editable view, that data becomes a pipeline.

With per-role row scoping, hiring managers see only what they should. With saved views, the recruiter sees today's reviews and the engineering manager sees this week's onsites. SleekView does not replace a dedicated ATS for thousand-person companies, but for the team running five concurrent searches in WordPress, it removes the worst friction without requiring a migration.