In the job opening you can enter an earliest possible start date. This is to show you at what time a position is to be filled as early as possible, for example, because your former colleague will then no longer be there on the first day. 

The earliest possible start date field is a free text field in which both letters and numbers can be entered. A manual entry must always be made. Earliest possible entry dates cannot be saved in a central location or selected from a drop-down menu in the job opening.

Through the field schema configuration in the job opening, the field can be shown and hidden or defined as a mandatory field.

The earliest possible starting date can be selected as a placeholder (Job Opening - Earliest Possible Start Date) in the correspondence template and in the job advertisement template.