Every job opening in Wonderlic Select has a status — Active, Archived, or Closed — that you can view and, in most cases, change right from the job opening's detail page.

A job opening's status tells you whether it's accepting candidates and whether it counts toward your plan's limit on active job openings.

Next to the status, the page also shows the matching date — for example, Archived 8/4/2026 or Closed via update 9/16/2025.

Whether you can change a job opening's status depends on your role:

If you don't have that access — including if you're a User with Edit or View access to the job opening — you'll see its status but not the option to change it.

If you think you should be able to change a status and can't, ask your account Owner or Admin to check your access.

You change a job opening's status from the status dropdown on the job opening's detail page. The dropdown shows the status you can switch to.

Archive a job opening when you're done hiring for it — for example, after you've made your hire(s) and given every candidate a fair chance to finish testing.

The opening status updates to Archived right away and you'll see a message confirming the change. Your candidates aren't affected — they stay in whatever status they were in when you archived the job opening and nothing is deleted. You can still update a candidate's status (like marking someone Hired) afterward.

While a job opening is archived, you can't send new assessment invitations from it and its Quick Apply Link is unavailable.

If you're ready to hire for the role again, we recommend creating a new job opening — it's built with Wonderlic's latest job profiles and scoring so you're always evaluating candidates with the best available science.

Starting a fresh hiring round? Create a new job opening instead of reactivating an old one — a new job opening uses Wonderlic's latest scoring and keeps each round's candidates cleanly separated. Reactivate when you're picking up the same hiring round where you left off.

If your plan has room for another active job opening, the status changes to Active immediately and you'll see a confirmation message. There's no extra confirmation step when reactivating.

Your subscription plan sets how many job openings you can have active at once. If you're already at that limit and try to reactivate an archived job opening, Wonderlic lets you know instead of making the change.

The job opening stays archived, and you have two ways to make room:

When a job opening has been updated, the original job opening has been replaced with a newer one using the latest job profile and scoring.

The original job opening is labeled Closed rather than Archived and it shows the date it was closed (for example, Closed via update 9/16/2025).

A Closed job opening can't be reactivated because the newer job opening has already replaced it — reopening the original would mean scoring candidates with outdated information.

If you want to keep hiring for that role, use the newer job opening that the update created or add a new job opening.

What's the difference between archiving and closing a job opening?

You archive a job opening yourself and you can reactivate it anytime (as long as you're under your plan's limit). A job opening is closed when you update it: Wonderlic closes the original and creates a newer one in its place using the latest scoring, so the closed one can't be reactivated.

What happens to my candidates when I archive a job opening?

Archiving hides the job opening from your active view, but your candidates stay in whatever status they were in, and no data is deleted. You can still update candidate statuses, and you can reactivate the job opening later to bring everything back into your active view.

Why can't I reactivate a job opening?

If the status shows Closed, you updated it and Wonderlic created a newer job opening in its place — use that newer one instead; the closed original can't be reactivated. If you're trying to reactivate an Archived job opening and it won't switch to Active, you've likely reached your plan's limit on active job openings.

Why don't I see the option to change a status?

Changing a job opening's status requires the right access. Owners and Admins can change any job opening's status; Users need Admin access to the specific job opening — Edit or View access isn't enough. Ask your account Owner or Admin if you need access.

Should I reactivate an old job opening for a new hiring round?

For a fresh hiring cycle, creating a new job opening is almost always the better choice. It keeps each round's candidates cleanly separated, so you don't end up contacting applicants from a previous round and you have a clear historical record of who applied to which round. A new job opening also picks up the latest job profile data and the most job-specific profile available, so you're using the latest profile data rather than reusing an older setup.