Add elapsed to job completion ticket

[kofalt]

Also provide a more robust check for job state at the beginning of both placers, tests were failing without it and it's smart to do here.

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #1091 into master will increase coverage by <.01%. The diff coverage is 86.66%.

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+ Coverage   90.81%   90.81%   +<.01%     
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  Files          50       50              
  Lines        7031     7043      +12     
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+ Hits         6385     6396      +11     
- Misses        646      647       +1

[nagem]

LGTM