At a certain stage, said you'd give the job to (7)
I believe the answer is:
appoint
'at a certain stage said you'd give the job to' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'a certain stage said you'd give the job to' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' is present in the answer.
'stage' could be 'point' (synonyms) and 'point' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'p' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for appoint that I've seen before include "Assign to a duty" , "Establish" , "Employ; take on" , "Nominate" , "Name" .)