Hi Garrett,
You are correct, the status change here expects that the ND, NE objects were taken care of manually.
The peridocal job then just deletes the "to be deleted" requisitions after the law periods.
If you want to have a more automatic way you can think of using ILM and the E-Recruiting archiving objects. Here the assigned objects are also taken care of if they are in the correct status.
Regards,
Nicole