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New created applicants or jobs are never "VIP" automatically.
If you have the required user rights, you will have the menu item "access rights" on the applicant detail page as well as on the job detail page.
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As soon as an applicant or a job has the VIP status, this is marked with the VIP symbol on the detail pages: (of course only visible for users with the required permission, others won't see the applicant or the job anyway)
VIP Jobs and applicants are marked with this symbol on the workspace as well:
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