Job seekers subscribe to job alerts to receive automatic notifications when new roles that match their interests are posted. This helps you stay connected with qualified and passive candidates, keeps your talent pipeline warm between openings and encourages faster applications when new jobs go live—all without any additional effort from your team.
Overview
Job alerts make it easy for job seekers to stay connected to your organization. Instead of repeatedly checking your job board for new openings, candidates can sign up to receive automatic notifications when roles that match their interests are posted.
For employers, this means you can keep qualified and passive candidates engaged over time without requiring additional outreach. Job alerts help maintain interest between hiring cycles, encourage timely applications when new roles go live, and support a more positive candidate experience by ensuring job seekers don’t miss relevant opportunities. Once enabled, job alerts run in the background, helping you build and nurture your talent pipeline automatically.
How job alerts work
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. To keep applying for jobs easy and streamlined, MyGreenhouse is password-free. Candidates simply sign in with a code sent to their email.
Once signed in, candidates can configure their job alerts for your organization. By default, candidates can create alerts for up to 8 job titles.
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
Go to Configure, then MyGreenhouse. Scroll to "Job alerts." Click "Preview" to understand what candidates will see on your job board when you enable job alerts.
When you're ready, select the boards where you'll allow candidates to sign up for job alerts. Your changes will instantly apply.
By default, candidates can create job alerts for job titles. We'll include job titles with slight variations in the results. For example, job alerts for "Project manager" will also include results for "Senior project manager."
If desired, you can also allow candidates to create alerts by department.
Note: Department names that include DNU, do not use, archive, ZZZ, template and inactive are automatically hidden from candidates.