First, change those = to === as mentioned by @sally-cj in the comment.
On top of that, you’re saving the status as a variable called $stat and are then checking it as $status. So you might want to change $stat = get_post_status($job->ID); into $status = get_post_status($job->ID);.
Or better: the $job is already populated with a field called post_status, so use $post->post_status.
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