Starting, Stopping and Managing Job Alerts

A job alert is an email notification about new jobs on Indeed. Job alerts are tailored to your preferences and the companies that you follow. In this article, we will explain how to start, edit or pause your job alerts and how to unsubscribe. We will also answer some common questions and help fix issues.

Before you start

You must be signed in to your Indeed account to create job alerts.
You may be unable to create job alerts when searching internationally.

Creating a job alert

Sign in or create an account on Indeed.
In the search field, enter your job-title, keyword or company.
In the location field, add the city, area or 'remote.'
Click or tap Search to get search results.
Scroll to the bottom of the first page of search results. You will find a field where you can enter your email address.
Click or tap Activate to receive job alerts matching your search criteria.

Did you know? You might get a pop-up to create a job alert instead. Check that your email address is correct and select Activate to start the job alert.

Managing job alerts

Where to find your job alert settings

Open Settings in your account.
Click or tap Communications settings.
Select Email to access your email subscriptions. From here, you can change your Job and company alerts.

Deleting, pausing or editing job alerts

Under Job and company alerts, you can adjust your search terms and email frequency:

Edit job titles, locations and frequencies using the pencil icon.

You can choose between daily or weekly emails.
You might not get a daily or weekly email if there are no new jobs matching your search.

Toggle off to pause.
Toggle on to resubscribe.

Unsubscribe using email

You can also do that if you prefer to use email to stop the alerts. Here's how:

Open the job alert email in your inbox.
Click Unsubscribe from this email.

Did you know? You must delete each job alert separately if you have more than one alert.

FAQs

Question: Can I improve my job alert emails?

Answer: Yes, you can always refine your job search by using search filters. Once you are done, activate the alert.

Question: I moved to a different country. Will I still receive the alerts I created before I moved?

Answer: Maybe, but we recommend creating new alerts using your new location.

Technical support

Issue: I am not receiving job alert emails.

Solution: The emails may be marked as spam or junk. Here are instructions on how to unblock Indeed.

Issue: I set the alert for 'exact location only', but the email includes jobs within 25 miles.

Solution: Open the search page from the job alert. On this page, you will only get the jobs that match your location preference.

Issue: I set the frequency to Daily, but I am not getting a job alert email every day.

Solution: You will not get a job alert email if there are no new jobs available that match your search. Try editing your job alert search terms to get more results.

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