Intros that start when your role does

A position posted on a Friday afternoon had no intros until Tuesday morning. Fixing that turned up four more paths where a position quietly ended up with no intros at all, or with intros for a role that was no longer live.

Improvements

• First intros on the day you post: Creating a position saved the role and then waited for the overnight run to fill it, so a role posted on a Friday afternoon had nothing to look at until Tuesday morning, around 66 hours later. Intros are now generated as soon as the position is created. The daily refresh covers every day of the week too, where Saturday and Sunday used to be skipped.

Fixes

• Resuming a position brings its intros back: Resuming a paused position said it worked and then did nothing. The step that should have rebuilt the intros failed on a malformed query and the error was swallowed, so the role came back live with an empty Intros page. Resuming now restores them.

• Joining a hiring team gets you your own intros: Joining a position from the hiring team is the quickest way onto a role, and it was the one route that created no intros at all. Joining now generates them, and leaving clears them.

• No intros for positions you have closed: Intros stayed on positions that had been archived, paused or deleted, and messaging anyone on that list failed. Intros now show only for positions that are still live, and archiving or pausing a role clears them.

• External roles no longer generate intros: A position that sends people to another system to apply cannot be actioned on cord, so building an intro list for it spent a search and a ranking pass on people nobody could message. Those are skipped now.

• Core skills weighted in the order you ranked them: The ranking read your core skills back to front, so the skill you listed first, the one that matters most, carried the least weight and the last one carried the most. The order now counts the way you set it. The weighting no longer depends on how many skills you list either, so a position with more than five core skills ranks like the rest.