Leaving a Company, or Closing It Down for Good
Why leaving requires naming a successor, and what actually happens if you close a business down entirely.
4 min readLeaving or removing someone always requires a successor
Whether you're leaving yourself or removing a teammate, you have to name a colleague to take over their open applications and active listings first. It's not optional: work in progress should never just go stale-attributed to someone no longer there. Closed or historical records stay exactly as they were, an honest record of who actually handled them at the time.
If you're the only one left, there's no one to hand off to
You can't 'leave' a team of one. Your only option at that point is closing the business down entirely, described below.
Closing down never forfeits time you've already paid for
Owners can close a business down from Settings > Business Profile at any time. If you still have paid time left, this only schedules the closure for when your current billing period actually ends; nothing changes until then, and you can undo it with 'Keep This Business Open' right up until it takes effect. A comped or free account with nothing left to wait out closes immediately.
Once it actually closes, you get a 30-day window to change your mind
Your team loses access, and the business becomes inaccessible to everyone, including candidates (its jobs are pulled from search and it stops accepting new applications) for 30 days. Nothing is deleted yet.
Only the person who closed it can reactivate directly
Sign back in within that 30-day window and reactivate with a fresh payment, and everything picks back up exactly where it left off. Anyone else, including a former co-owner who didn't trigger the closure, has to submit a request that RecruiterLog's team reviews by hand.
After 30 days, it resets to a fresh, unclaimed listing
If nobody reactivates in time, the detailed records are permanently cleared and the business becomes available for anyone to claim again, the same state a brand-new, never-claimed company sits in. Aggregate performance numbers are kept internally for our own reporting; individual application and message records are not recoverable after this point.