One a day at most · nothing on a quiet day
Email alerts
A search on this site is a URL. An alert is that URL read once a day, sending you the roles an employer has published since the last one. If nothing new matched, nothing arrives — a daily email that is sometimes empty teaches you to stop opening it.
Email me when a role like this opens
One email a day at most. On a day when nothing new matched, nothing is sent.
Alerting onDesign · remote
A confirmation email comes first and nothing is sent until you click the link in it. Every alert carries a one-click unsubscribe. What the address is used for
What actually arrives
One email a day at most, and only on a day when something new matched. Across the whole index 6,975 roles were published in the last seven days, spread over 413 employers — on the order of 996 a day with nothing filtered out at all. A search narrow enough to be worth reading takes a small fraction of that, which means it will be quiet for days at a time. Those days are silent rather than padded.
The alert is the search, unchanged: the same words, employer, function, level, department, country, workplace and age the filters on /jobs write into the URL. Nothing is added to it, nothing is broadened to fill an email, and there are no roles in it that you did not ask for.
“New” means the employer published it
This is the only reason to want an alert from this site rather than from a job board. Every other alert tells you when its index changed — a role appears in it the day the crawler found it, which is a fact about the crawler. A requisition that has been open since March arrives in your inbox looking like it opened this morning.
The date here is the one the employer’s own hiring system reports. A role does not become new because a recruiter edited a word in it, and it does not become new because fable12 read that board for the first time today. Where a system exposes both a created date and an updated one, the created one is what counts. How we know sets out where those timestamps come from, and which employers are missing because their boards publish none worth standing behind.
Nothing is sent until you confirm
An address typed into a box is not consent from the person who owns it — anybody can type yours. So the first email is a confirmation, it is the only one that ever arrives unasked, and the alert does not start until the link in it is clicked. If you did not ask for it, doing nothing is the correct response and the whole of it.
There is a selfish reason too, and it is worth stating rather than dressing up. A list that never agreed to be a list bounces and gets marked as spam, and after enough of that a domain’s mail stops reaching anybody’s inbox at all. Confirming first is what keeps the alerts working for the people who did ask.
Stopping it
Every alert carries an unsubscribe link and clicking it is the entire process: no sign-in, no page asking why, no second screen confirming that you meant it. There is no account here to close, because there was never one to open.
Alerts come from [email protected], and replies to that address reach a person. It is a mailbox rather than a no-reply, so a wrong age, a role that should not be in the index, or a complaint about this email arriving at all can be sent straight back at it.
The address you give is stored so the alert can be sent to it. The privacy page sets out what this site holds, everyone a request touches on its way here, and how to have any of it removed.
Starting points
Each of these fills the box at the top of this page in. They are ordinary searches — nothing here is a preset that only alerts can use.