External recruiters now see the exact pipeline stage

One pipeline stage, shown the same way everywhere

External recruiter submissions now use the organization’s internal candidate pipeline as the single source of truth. When an internal recruiter moves a candidate, the external recruiter portal shows that exact stage name instead of translating it to a separate recruiter-facing status.

The shared workflow editor no longer offers a separate external visibility or alternate-label setting. Adding or renaming a stage changes the same label seen by internal and external recruiters for candidates they are permitted to follow.

New organizations now begin with explicit colors on every default stage. Candidate Workflow settings, job pipelines, and recruiter-facing stage indicators resolve those colors from the same shared workflow definition, so the editor no longer shows Blue when the pipeline is using another default color.

Current status and movement history stay aligned

Submission cards, candidate details, notifications, emails, and movement history all resolve from the canonical pipeline stage. Compatibility fields used by older integrations remain available, but they mirror the exact internal stage and cannot override it.

If an older submission is missing its latest saved tracking event, RecruitIQ compares its history with the live pipeline record and shows the exact current movement. This keeps the portal truthful without changing earlier recorded events.

• Stage IDs and stage names match the internal pipeline one to one.
• Default stage colors start as Blue, Indigo, Yellow, Purple, Amber, Emerald, and Red.
• Legacy alternate labels and hidden-stage flags no longer change the recruiter-facing stage.
• Explicitly disabling a recruiter notification still prevents that notification; it does not create a different status.