If you want to sort jobs alphabetically in Job Manager and use sticky sort for highlighted items it will mess up the order of all non-highlighted opportunities. This was my quick workaround. Hopefully it will help someone.

In frontend-jobs.php

<?php
function jobman_sort_highlighted_jobs( $a, $b ) {
	$ahighlighted = get_post_meta( $a->ID, 'highlighted', true );
	$bhighlighted = get_post_meta( $b->ID, 'highlighted', true );
	if( $ahighlighted == $bhighlighted )
		return strnatcmp($a->post_title, $b->post_title);
	if( 1 == $ahighlighted )
		return -1;
	if( 1 == $bhighlighted )
		return 1;
	return strnatcmp($a->post_title, $b->post_title);
}
?>

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