Availability and hiring status
The two states, the thirty-day rule, and how to come back.
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Two states
Active, and inactive. There is no third.
Those are the words on the switch in your profile. Your public profile says it differently, because it is read by somebody who is not you. While you are active it says nothing at all: a profile in the directory is available by definition. While you are inactive it says currently not available, which is the thing a visitor needs to know.
There used to be an "open to offers" in between, and it had identical consequences to being active everywhere in the product, so all it did was turn a switch into a decision.
What being inactive does
It is the inactive state, and it is one mechanism rather than several:
- your profile leaves the directory, the homepage and the taxonomy pages
- you stop appearing in a client's suggested talent
- you stop being counted in the skill, tool and industry totals
- applying to a job is refused, by name, before you have written an intro
- clients cannot start new conversations with you