Quick apply and job alerts help you connect with motivated candidates by reducing application friction and keeping your roles top of mind. Add these features to your job boards and posts to help great candidates find out about, and apply to, your jobs.
Overview
When you enable job alerts and quick apply, Greenhouse adds buttons to your job board and job posts that allow candidates to:
- Receive email alerts when your organization posts new roles
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Apply in seconds using saved profile data
These features make it easier for job seekers to stay engaged with your company—and easier for your team to hire faster, with less follow-up.
Quick apply
When quick apply is enabled, candidates will see an "Autofill with Greenhouse" button when they view your job applications.
On their first visit, selecting this button prompts candidates to create a free MyGreenhouse account and complete their profile by adding their resume and personal details.
After creating their quick apply profile, candidates select "Autofill with Greenhouse" on Greenhouse-hosted job applications to complete them with the click of a button, which increases the likelihood that they'll apply for your roles.
Job alerts
When job alerts are enabled, job seekers will see an option to Create a job alert on your job board and job posts.
When they select "Create job alert" candidates are prompted to sign in or create a MyGreenhouse account where they'll select their preferred departments and notification frequency.
After creating their alert, candidates will receive a daily or weekly email (8:00 AM in their time zone) when jobs matching their preferences are posted. Alerts from all job boards candidates subscribe to are grouped into one daily email and do not include republished jobs.
Turn on job alerts and quick apply
There are two ways to turn on job alerts and quick apply: from your job board or your organization's Candidate portal page.
From a job board
- Go to Configure, and select Job Boards and Posts.
- Select your board, then go to Edit board settings on the job board where you’d like to enable these features and select Candidate portal.
- Check "Turn on candidate experience features," then save your changes.
From your org's Candidate Portal page
- Go to Configure, then Candidate portal.
- Click Job board features, then select the boards where you'll allow candidates to sign up for job alerts.
- Or select "Turn on for all job boards," then save your changes.
Then a button inviting job seekers to create alerts will be automatically added to your job board and job posts.
API-powered job boards
If your organization uses an API-powered job board (Option 5), you can add a job alert sign-up widget to your job posts by following the instructions to enable job alerts.
After you've activated job alerts, go to Configure, Job Boards & Posts, then select the job board you'd like to add job alerts to. Go to Board settings, then copy your board URL. It will look like this:
http://my.greenhouse.io/users/sign_in?job_board={BOARD_TOKEN}
Next, add your job board URL as a link or button to your job board or job post depending on where you'd like your job alert sign-up widget to appear.