Forwarding job alerts

You almost certainly already get alert emails from job boards. Those are a source Rolehound can read, and setting it up costs you nothing beyond a mailbox connection.

There is no forwarding address

Start here, because it is what most people expect and it is not how this works. Rolehound has no address of its own to forward mail to. It reads your mailbox — the one you connect on the Mailbox tab.

So "forwarding" means getting the alerts into that mailbox. Either point the job boards' alerts at it directly, by changing the address on your alert subscriptions, or forward the ones you already receive elsewhere into it.

Connect the mailbox first. Email and your mailbox covers how, and — more importantly — what else that connection does. Read it before you connect anything: every message Rolehound classifies is filed into a folder under Rolehound/, personal mail included. A mailbox you use only for your job search is the better one to connect.

What happens to an alert

Messages arriving in the connected inbox are read and classified. One judged to be a job alert is then read in full for the roles inside it, and each role it can pull out becomes an entry on your job list — title, employer, location, work mode, and salary where the alert states one. A single alert routinely yields several. The message itself is filed into Rolehound/JobAlert afterwards.

Those roles then go through everything else: duplicates against what you already have, then your UK, salary and commute checks, then scoring. On the Jobs page they carry the Email chip, whichever board originally sent them.

Two things to expect

Roles from email are subject to your filters, unlike a job you paste in yourself. If a board's alerts seem to be bringing you nothing, a filter is the first thing to check — not the connection.

An alert email gives a place name but no map point, so an on-site role from one cannot have its commute measured. It is flagged for review instead of dropped, which is the safe outcome, but does mean roles from email arrive flagged more often than searched ones do.

Why it is worth doing

Coverage. Rolehound's own keyword search runs against one aggregator; your alerts come from every board you have ever signed up to, including the niche ones and the ones with no public API at all. Pointing those at the connected mailbox widens the net without widening your search titles — and everything that arrives is deduplicated against what you already have, so the overlap costs you nothing but a moment's reading.