Job Alerts for Candidate Portal | Zoho Recruit

Sending automated job alerts to candidates

Staying connected with the right candidates doesn’t end when they leave your career site. With Job Alerts, you can automatically notify candidates about new opportunities that match their interests, keeping your talent pipeline warm and engaged without any manual follow-ups.

By enabling automated job alerts, you make it easier for candidates to discover relevant openings while ensuring your roles reach the right audience at the right time. It’s a simple way to boost visibility, improve candidate experience, and increase application rates, all in the background.

How does it work?

While customizing your Candidate Portal, you will find the option to enable Job Alerts. Doing so will allow candidates to create alerts that notify them when a jobs matching their alert criteria are published on your Career Site.

The email template used to send out alerts can be customized to fit your design standards and company theme.

Enabling/Disabling job alerts

  1. Go to Setup > Portal Setup > Candidate Portal.

  2. Click Customize.

  3. Under Tab Settings, toggle on Job Alerts.

  4. You can then choose an email template that will be used for sending out the alerts, which will have a template selected by default.

    1. This section will also display the Job Listing Code used for the template.
  5. Click Update to confirm your changes and click Save and publish.

Things to Note

  1. When you customize the Job Alert Email Notification template, please ensure the Job Listing Code isn't removed or changed.
  2. In case you plan on using a custom email template, make sure you include the Job Listing Code in the template body using the option shown below. 

    1. Keep in mind that you will need to include the code to the template body source, i.e., as HTML instead of text. Preview the changes shown on the right and click Apply changes.

How to create job alerts (for Candidates)

  1. While logged into your portal account, select the Job Alerts tab on the left-side menu.

  2. Click Create Alert.

  3. In the Create Alert pop-up;

    1. Enter the Alert Name
    2. Specify your alert Conditions. You can add a maximum of 5 conditions per alert.
    3. Lastly, specify how frequently you wish to receive the alert, the options being Weekly and Monthly.
    4. Click Save when you are done.
  4. Your alert will then be saved and can be viewed / edited from this page. 

  5. When jobs that match your alert conditions are published to the Career Site, you will receive an alert email (as per your selected frequency).



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