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SQL update trigger that kicks off a job

How do you write an update trigger that on update of a record a job get executed?
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So it will be something like code below however the SQL login that fires the trigger -or does the UPDATE statement must have sufficient rights to start and run the SQL job:

CREATE TRIGGER [TU_Clients] ON  [dbo].[Clients]
   AFTER UPDATE
AS
BEGIN

-- stop the recursive trigger from firing more than once ...
IF ((SELECT TRIGGER_NESTLEVEL()) > 1 )
BEGIN
   RETURN
END

IF UPDATE(ClientName)
BEGIN
      --start job here
      EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job @job_name = 'Put Your Real Job name here'
            
END
END