Candidate and employer notifications
You can alert people in the BuddyPress notification bell when something happens to their application:
- Candidates are alerted when the status of their application changes.
- Employers are alerted when someone applies to one of their jobs.
These are in-app alerts, not emails. Email notifications are set separately under Career Board > Settings > Emails.
What candidates see
Section titled “What candidates see”When an application’s status changes, the candidate gets a bell notification worded “status - job title”.
| New status | Text shown |
|---|---|
| Submitted | Application received |
| Reviewing | Your application is under review |
| Shortlisted | You were shortlisted |
| Rejected | Application not selected |
| Hired | You were hired! |
| Any other status | Application status updated |
Clicking the notification opens My Applications in the candidate’s My Career profile tab.
No notification is sent when the candidate withdraws their own application.
What employers see
Section titled “What employers see”When someone applies, the job’s author gets a bell notification:
- One application: “New application received for” and the job title.
- Several stacked together: “N new applications received”.
Clicking it opens the Applications screen in the employer’s My Jobs profile tab. Applications from guests also notify the employer. An author who applies to their own job is not notified.
Turn it off
Section titled “Turn it off”Go to Career Board > Settings > Integrations, open the BuddyPress card and switch off Application Notifications. It is on by default and turns off both kinds of alert.
Application Notifications only works while Profile Tabs is also on. Turning Profile Tabs off stops these alerts too.
Change the wording
Section titled “Change the wording”The text can be translated with any translation plugin, using the wp-career-board-pro text domain. Statuses not in the table above show “Application status updated”.