Manage email notifications for job postings

Email notifications for LinkedIn Recruiter job postings are managed at two levels: by your company administrator and individually by you. LinkedIn periodically sends these notifications, including applicant updates, Profile Matches, and Apply Starter emails, to help streamline your hiring activities and keep you informed.

These Recruiter-specific emails are sent exclusively to the email address associated with your enterprise Recruiter account. This email address can be different from the one linked to your personal LinkedIn.com profile, which receives general notifications like connections requests and InMails. However, if you prefer, you can use the same email address for both accounts. If you're uncertain about which email is associated with your Recruiter account or if you'd like it updated, reach out to your Recruiter administrator. You can quickly identify who your admin is on your Account overview page.

Who can use this feature?

The ability to enable or disable email notifications depends on your role. Admins can manage company-wide settings that impact whether email notifications are delivered to users. Seat holders (individual users) can manage their own notification preferences within LinkedIn.com settings. Some notifications, such as "Open to Work" alerts, are only sent to the project owner or the person who posted the job as push notifications.

Important to know

Job posting emails will not be sent to generic or role-based addresses (e.g., HR@company.com, Jobs@company.com). You must use a member-scope (personal) email address.

Use the guidance below to confirm your email settings at both the administrator and individual user levels, ensuring that you receive notifications aligned with your preferences.

Recruiter Admins

As an admin, you control whether your team receives job applicant email notifications. To enable these emails:

In Recruiter, hover over the Me icon.
Click Account overview.
Under Company Settings, click Job posting.
For Enable job application email, select On.
Click Save.

Important to know

This admin-level setting must be enabled first before your team members can individually manage their notification preferences.

Individual users

As a seat holder, job posting notifications are always delivered to the email attached to your Recruiter seat (the "enterprise Recruiter email"). You must individually set your LinkedIn notification preferences to receive job application emails.

To ensure your settings are correct:

Sign in to LinkedIn.com using the email attached to your Recruiter seat.
At the top right, click Me.
Select Settings & Privacy.
Click Notifications.
Select Hiring someone.
Make sure Allow job post notifications is turned on, then select Job post updates. You'll see three notification channels - In-app, Push, and Email.
Switch the Email toggle to On.
Under Choose email frequency, select Individual (the top option) so you receive an email each time a new candidate applies to one of your job postings.

Important to know

If you disable the Email toggle in your LinkedIn.com notification settings, you will stop receiving job posting emails, even if your admin has the company toggle enabled.

By ensuring these settings are correctly configured at both the admin and individual levels, your team will consistently receive timely and relevant updates on job applicants.