A Job change alert is an automated notification that identifies a new role, employer, promotion, or other employment change for a candidate or business contact stored in a recruiting database. It turns career movement into a reviewable signal for record updates, candidate re-engagement, relationship management, and business development. It is different from a vacancy alert sent to job seekers.<\/p>\n
The signal becomes useful when it connects to existing recruiting context. A recruiter’s next step depends on who moved, the prior relationship, the person’s new responsibility, current search needs, account ownership, and data confidence. The alert reports a possible change. A recruiter verifies the information and decides what action fits.<\/p>\n
A useful alert workflow has six stages.<\/p>\n
Choose which candidates or contacts merit monitoring. A firm may prioritize recent candidates, placed executives, client contacts, target-account leaders, or past finalists.<\/p>\n
The system checks permitted external or first-party data sources for a new employer, title, promotion, or role date. Detection quality depends on identity matching, source freshness, and profile completeness.<\/p>\n
The system connects the possible change to an existing candidate or contact. Common matching inputs include name, profile URL, employer history, location, email, and other identifiers.<\/p>\n
The alert should show the previous role, proposed role, company, detected date, and source context. Recruiters need enough detail to spot a wrong person, outdated update, or overlapping role.<\/p>\n
The reviewer confirms the change, rejects it, or checks another source. An accepted alert may update the profile, create a task, route the record, or start an approved workflow.<\/p>\n
The team decides whether to congratulate the person, discuss a new search, reopen a candidate relationship, research the new employer, or take no action. Record the decision and outcome to improve future prioritization.<\/p>\n