diff --git a/rq/__init__.py b/rq/__init__.py
index 3748cd3..7256ee6 100644
--- a/rq/__init__.py
+++ b/rq/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from redis import Redis
 from .proxy import conn
 from .queue import Queue, FailedQueue
+from .job import cancel_job, requeue_job
 from .worker import Worker
-from .job import Job
 from .version import VERSION
 
 
@@ -20,5 +20,8 @@ def use_redis(redis=None):
         raise TypeError('Argument redis should be a Redis instance.')
     conn.push(redis)
 
-__all__ = ['conn', 'Queue', 'FailedQueue', 'Worker', 'Job', 'use_redis']
+__all__ = [
+    'conn', 'use_redis',
+    'Queue', 'FailedQueue', 'Worker',
+    'cancel_job', 'requeue_job']
 __version__ = VERSION
diff --git a/rq/job.py b/rq/job.py
index 7e70fb6..83617e3 100644
--- a/rq/job.py
+++ b/rq/job.py
@@ -21,6 +21,21 @@ def unpickle(pickled_string):
     return obj
 
 
+def cancel_job(job_id):
+    """Cancels the job with the given job ID, preventing execution.  Discards
+    any job info (i.e. it can't be requeued later).
+    """
+    Job(job_id).cancel()
+
+
+def requeue_job(job_id):
+    """Requeues the job with the given job ID.  The job ID should refer to
+    a failed job (i.e. it should be on the failed queue).  If no such (failed)
+    job exists, a NoSuchJobError is raised.
+    """
+    raise NotImplementedError('Go implement this')
+
+
 class Job(object):
     """A Job is just a convenient datastructure to pass around job (meta) data.
     """
diff --git a/tests/test_job.py b/tests/test_job.py
index 59ba922..140bf70 100644
--- a/tests/test_job.py
+++ b/tests/test_job.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from tests import RQTestCase
 from tests.fixtures import some_calculation, say_hello
 from tests.helpers import strip_milliseconds
 from cPickle import loads
-from rq import Job
+from rq.job import Job
 from rq.exceptions import NoSuchJobError, UnpickleError
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_queue.py b/tests/test_queue.py
index 6ea2d95..1cf6b82 100644
--- a/tests/test_queue.py
+++ b/tests/test_queue.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from tests import RQTestCase
 from tests.fixtures import say_hello, div_by_zero
-from rq import Queue, FailedQueue, Job
+from rq import Queue, FailedQueue
+from rq.job import Job
 from rq.exceptions import InvalidJobOperationError
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_worker.py b/tests/test_worker.py
index 8a46ae5..02d2fdc 100644
--- a/tests/test_worker.py
+++ b/tests/test_worker.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ from tests import RQTestCase, slow
 from tests.fixtures import say_hello, div_by_zero, do_nothing, create_file, \
         create_file_after_timeout
 from tests.helpers import strip_milliseconds
-from rq import Queue, Worker, Job
+from rq import Queue, Worker
+from rq.job import Job
 
 
 class TestWorker(RQTestCase):