Job Alerts

Job alerts let job seekers subscribe to your board and receive an email digest when new jobs match what they are looking for. This page covers the job-seeker side of alerts. The operator side (managing subscribers and deliverability) stays in manage subscribers and email deliverability.

The flow has three stages: subscribe, confirm, and ongoing delivery.

Prerequisites

Enable Job alerts under Settings → Features and publish at least one job suitable for a test subscription. Use an email address you can open so you can verify both confirmation and digest preferences.

Subscribe

A job seeker enters their email into a subscription form on your board and subscribes. The form captures the email. Preferences (which jobs they want to hear about) are set afterward from the subscriber's management page, linked in every digest.

Confirm

After subscribing, they receive a confirmation email and must click the link to verify their address and activate the alert. Until they confirm, they appear in your dashboard as pending confirmation and receive no digests.

Delivery

Once confirmed, your board matches new jobs against the subscriber's preferences and sends a weekly digest. Weekly is the only supported cadence. A digest only goes out when there are matching jobs since the previous one, so subscribers never receive an empty email.

Turn it on

To offer job alerts on your board:

1. Go to Settings in your dashboard sidebar.
2. Open the Features tab.
3. Toggle Job alerts on.

Once on, the subscription form appears on your public board and the Job alerts area appears in your dashboard navigation, where you manage subscribers.

Subscriber statuses

Each subscriber has one of four statuses:

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

Preferences

Subscribers narrow their weekly alerts by job functions, seniority level, work arrangement (remote, hybrid, on-site), location, and salary range. Tighter filters produce fewer matches; use delivery and click data to determine whether they are more useful. Every digest links to a management page where subscribers can update preferences, unsubscribe, or resubscribe.

Availability

• Plan: All paid plans. Job alerts are available on every paid plan.
• Setting: Settings, then Features, then "Job alerts." Once on, the subscription form appears on your public board and the alerts area appears in your dashboard navigation.
• Setup required: None. For best deliverability, see email deliverability.

Limitations

• A digest is sent only when there are matching jobs; there is no instant, per-job alert.
• Each digest includes up to a fixed number of the newest matching jobs, so an unusually large batch is capped per email.

Example

For example, create one alert for remote product roles and another for marketing roles in Sydney. Each alert keeps its own filters, but both belong to the same subscriber email and deliver on the weekly cadence when new matches exist.

Verify and troubleshoot an alert

Subscribe with a test address, confirm it, and check that its status becomes Active. Set criteria that match a newly published test job and confirm the next eligible digest includes it. If no digest arrives, check confirmation status, filters, whether a new matching job exists, and email deliverability before resubscribing.

Troubleshoot a missing digest

If a digest does not arrive, do not expect an empty email: confirm a new job matched after the previous digest. Then check Active status, preferences, spam placement, and delivery diagnostics.

Next steps

Use Manage subscribers to monitor subscriber states and imported addresses. Review Email notifications before changing sender-facing copy.