This feature can be useful when you have a job advertisement that you want to share with some of your candidates.
To set up this alert, go to the job posts module. Here, you can see an overview of all your job ads. To add the alert, look for the three-dot button to the right of the job post and select Notifications.
This button will take you to a page that looks like this:
On the left side, you can set up criteria for who should receive the notification when activating it. By adding candidate attributes or adding locations where candidates are open to jobs, you narrow down the selection to better fit the position.
Skills
Skills are used to alert candidates who have registered these specific skills. You can add as many as you want.
Skills are a little different in that there are both OR and AND built in. In the video below, we can see that it is possible to filter on candidates who have either one OR the other skill, but also one AND the other.
This GIF shows how to draw skills from OR to AND.
Understanding the logic for adding criteria:
The criteria you add work using a Boolean search logic with AND/OR operators.
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Inside each box, the criteria within a single box use the OR operator. For example, if you add multiple skills to one box, a candidate only needs to have one of those skills to meet the criteria. The notification will be sent to candidates who have one skill or the other.
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Between the rows, the criteria will use the AND operator. For example, if you add two skills in separate rows, a candidate must have one or more of the skills AND similarly they must have at least one of the skills in the other row as well.
Places the candidate wants to work
A candidate can specify their preferred work location or locations on their profile. When you add a filter here, only candidates who have set the same locations will be notified.
Candidate attributes
These are used to create a filter based on the attributes registered on a candidate. These can be, for example, attributes you have assigned to candidates or attribute questions the candidates have answered on their profile page.
Contact person attributes
This works in the same way as candidate attributes, but for a contact person associated with a company instead.
The email box is where you write the text to be sent out to potential candidates about the new job advertisement.
You can use merge tags (mScript), such as the name of the job advertisement, to make the email a little more personal to the recipient.
One recommendation is to use the merge code @jobPost.url, so that candidates can easily get to the job advertisement by clicking on a link.
When all is done, click the Start button to notify your candidates.
Tips
A great way to use the job alert is to apply it to a position that has the skills, locations and/or attributes already included. Also, create a template in the system settings with all the needed merge marks, then type some good text to go with it. This way, you can just import the template, and then you are ready!