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Product tier: Available to all product tiers

Note: Candidate job alerts are in a closed beta and may not be available to your company.

Job alerts allow candidates to sign up to receive email notifications when your company posts new jobs. Enabling alerts adds widgets to your job board and job post allowing candidates to sign up for your company’s job alerts.

Candidate job alerts overview

When you enable job alerts, a widget inviting candidates to “Create a job alert” will be added to your selected job board. The widget doesn’t use cookies and won’t impact the performance of your board.

 

When candidates select “Create a job alert” on your job board widget, they’ll be redirected to Greenhouse, then prompted to sign into or create a candidate account. Candidates can also create job alerts from your job post.

Note: When candidates sign up for job alerts, they create accounts directly with Greenhouse. Candidates’ Greenhouse accounts are not located within or connected to your Greenhouse Recruiting instance.

After a candidate creates a job alert for your company, they will choose which types of roles they’re interested in and how often they’d like to receive notifications. Then,  Greenhouse will email the candidate when your company posts new jobs that meet their criteria.

Enable candidate job alerts

To enable job alerts, go to Configure, and select Job Boards and Posts. 

Then, go to Edit board settings on the job board you’d like to add a widget to.From your job board, select Job alerts

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Click “Enable job alerts,” then Save changes.

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Candidates will now have the option to receive alerts when your company posts new jobs. 

Note: To add a “Create a job alert” widget to your job board, you must be on the new customizable Greenhouse job board. Learn how to turn on new job boards.

API-powered job boards

If your company uses an API-powered job board, add a job alert sign-up widget to your job posts by following the instructions to enable candidate job alerts. After you've activated job alerts, add your job board link:

https://myjobs.{your organization}.com/users/sign_in?job_board={BOARD_TOKEN}