How Job Alerts Work

Job alerts let candidates subscribe to your board and receive a weekly email digest when new jobs match their preferences. The flow has three stages: subscription, confirmation, and ongoing delivery.

Enable job alerts

Job alerts are controlled by a feature toggle in your board settings.

1. Click Board settings in the sidebar
2. Open the General tab
3. Find the Job alerts toggle
4. Switch it on

The toggle description reads "Allow candidates to subscribe to alerts for new roles." Once enabled, Job alerts appears in your sidebar navigation and the subscription form becomes available on your public board.

The subscription flow

Subscribing

Candidates enter their email address into a subscription form on your board and click subscribe. The form captures email only. Preferences like job functions, seniority levels, work arrangement, and location can be configured later through the subscriber's management page.

Confirmation

After subscribing, the candidate receives a confirmation email with the subject line "Verify your email to start receiving job alerts from [your board name]." Clicking the confirmation link verifies their email and activates the subscription. Until confirmed, the subscriber appears in your dashboard with Pending confirmation status and does not receive any digests.

Digest delivery

Once confirmed, the system matches new job postings against each subscriber's preferences and sends a weekly digest. The digest includes all matching jobs posted since the previous one. If no jobs match, no email is sent for that week.

Subscriber statuses

Each subscriber has one of four statuses:

• Active: confirmed and receiving digests
• Pending confirmation: subscribed but has not clicked the confirmation link yet
• Waitlisted: subscribed when alerts were at capacity or temporarily paused
• Unsubscribed: opted out of receiving digests

Subscriber preferences

Subscribers can narrow their alerts by job functions (up to 8), seniority level, work arrangement (remote, hybrid, on-site), location, and salary range. These preferences are managed through the subscriber's management page, which is linked in every digest email. More specific filters mean fewer but more relevant matches. Subscribers who set tight filters tend to engage more with the emails they receive, which improves your deliverability reputation over time.

Self-service management

Every digest email includes a link to a management page where subscribers can view their current preferences, delete a preference set, unsubscribe from all alerts, or resubscribe if they previously opted out. This self-service flow means most subscriber management happens without any action from you.