Job search fields and job alerts

Two screens under Jobs look after how job seekers find jobs: Search Fields sets up the job search form on the site, and Job Alert lists the alerts job seekers have set up to get new jobs by e-mail.

Search fields

Jobs → Search Fields opens Job Search Fields. It lists the job fields that can be used in the site’s job search form, in the order they appear there.

Column	Meaning
Field Title	The field.
User Search	The field is in the search form for logged-in users.
Visitor Search	The field is in the search form for visitors who aren’t logged in.
Edit	Opens a small window to change both.

The list at the top chooses which fields to show: Search Fields for those offered to users or visitors, or All Fields for every field that can be searched. Click Go to apply.

Turning a field on or off

Click the edit icon on a row. In the window, set User Search and Visitor Search to Enabled or Disabled and click Save.

You can also change both from the field’s edit window under Jobs → Fields (see Job and company fields).

Changing the order

Drag a row by its title to a new place, then click Save Ordering. The message reads “Field Ordering has been successfully saved”. Cancel reloads the screen without saving.

Job alerts

A job alert is a job seeker’s request to be e-mailed new jobs in a category, daily, weekly or monthly. Job seekers set up their alert on the site. Jobs → Job Alert lists every alert so you can check, correct or remove them.

The Job Alert screen with a Name search box and one alert from Maria Lopez: her contact e-mail, the job category Computer/IT, the subcategory, status Approved, the date created and the unsubscribe icon.

The list shows each alert’s Name, Contact Email, Job Category, Subcategory, Status and the date it was Created. Type part of a name and click Search to find an alert; Reset clears the search.

Status	Meaning
Approved	The alert is active and sends e-mails.
Pending Approval	The alert waits for you; it sends nothing yet.
Rejected	The alert sends nothing.

New alerts are approved straight away when Job Alert Auto Approve is set to Yes under Configurations → Job Seeker; otherwise they are Pending Approval until you change them here.

The e-mails themselves are sent by the component’s cron job (Configurations → Cron Job). Each approved alert gets the new matching jobs once a day, once a week or once a month, as its Alert Type says.

Editing an alert

Click an alert’s name to open Form Job Alert.

The job alert form for Maria Lopez’s alert: Name, Categories, Sub Category, Contact Email, City, Zip Code, Alert Type Weekly, Status Approve, Keywords and the Save Job Alert button.

Field	What it does
Name	The alert’s name. Required.
Categories	The job category to watch. Required. Changing it reloads Sub Category.
Sub Category	Narrows the alert to one sub-category.
Contact Email	Where the alert is sent. Required.
City, Zip Code	Narrow the alert to a location. In 1.5.3 the City box here doesn’t offer the city search; leave it as it is.
Alert Type	Daily, Weekly or Monthly. Required.
Status	Approve, Reject or Pending Approval. Use it to approve an alert that is waiting.
Keywords	Words to match in jobs, up to 255 characters.

Click Save Job Alert.

There is no button to add an alert here; job seekers create their own on the site.

Removing an alert

Click the icon in the Unsubscribe column and confirm. The alert is deleted with its cities, and the job seeker gets no more e-mails from it. The message reads “You unsubscribe job alert”.