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Priority

Mark which roles to fill first, and keep the untriaged jobs out of the way when you sort.

Overview

Priority marks which jobs your team should fill first. It is optional. A job has one of five levels: No priority, Urgent, High, Medium, or Low.

Every job starts at No priority. Nothing sets it for you.

Screenshot coming: The priority picker open on a job row

Set priority

FromHow
The jobs listFocus a row and press P. In the picker, press 04 to pick a level without the mouse.
The job overviewSelect Priority in the properties.
A boardDrag the job into another priority column. The job takes that column's priority.

Select several rows first and the change applies to all of them. Attia asks you to confirm before a change lands on more than one job, so a large re-prioritisation is never silent.

Priority ordering

Jobs with no priority always sort last, whichever direction you sort in. Sorting by priority exists to bring urgent work up, so the untriaged pile stays at the bottom either way.

The picker is the exception: it lists No priority first, so clearing a priority is always the same keystroke.

On a board grouped by something else and then sub-grouped by priority, the sub-group lanes follow the order the rows arrive in, so an unprioritised lane can appear in the middle.

What priority affects

Priority is a sort key. You can sort, group, and filter jobs by it, save that as a view, and show it as a column or on a board card.

It does nothing else. Priority does not change notifications, does not reach candidates or career sites, and does not reorder anything on its own. Applications have no priority of their own — use time in status to find candidates who are stalling.

Who can change it

Workspace admins can change priority on any job. Everyone else needs to be an active, non-guest member of one of the job's teams. Guests cannot.

Every change is written to the job's timeline — "set priority to Urgent", or "removed the priority" — with who did it and when.