After reopening a job requisition, what's the best way to reinstate the inactive applications?

Summary:

After closing a job req, we need to reopen to hire one more person into the position. After re-opening the job req, we filter to all inactive applications and then filter to Rejected by Employer or Withdrawn. We select all applications and then attempt to use the Move Application mass action to move them all back to the beginning of the application process. This is not working, so we are left to individually go into each application and move them back a phase. This works but multiplies the time needed to do this a great deal.

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