How to email an applicant

How to email an applicant

1. Open an applicant’s profile and click Email. Applicant profiles can be found under the Applicants section in Recruiting as well as on the dashboard of any Job Postings they have applied to. Check out our articles on How to manage applicants and How to manage your job postings for more information.


2. From the dropdown under Reply to, select from whom you want the email to appear to be sent from. Any replies to the email will be sent to the sender’s inbox. Select This is a no-reply email if you do not want the applicant to respond to the email.


3. From the Templates dropdown, you can select a saved email template to use. For instructions on how to create email templates, check out our How to create email templates article. If you choose to use a template for your email, the Email subject and Email body fields will be filled automatically.


4. Make any desired edits to the Email subject and Email body fields or fill them in if you chose not to use a template.


5. When you’ve finished composing your email, click Send.



On the job posting dashboard, the applicant will now be marked as Contacted.

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