Members save the searches they care about and new roles come to them.
Members of a Spacewalk job board can now save up to three searches in each marketplace, update them at any time and choose whether the roles that match them arrive by email daily or weekly. Nobody has to rebuild the same filters every time they sign in, and the roles a member actually cares about come to them instead of waiting to be found.
What changed
- Members can save up to three searches in each marketplace, each one keeping the filters they chose, and update them at any time.
- A saved search can be reused whenever they come back, so a visit to the board starts from what they were already looking for.
- Members choose whether matching roles arrive in a single daily or weekly email.
- The email ranks the roles and removes duplicates, so a role that fits two saved searches appears once.
- It replaces the overlapping match alerts members could receive before, so one email now does the job of several.
What it means for your members
The first benefit is time. Someone looking for part-time marketing roles in Leeds, or graduate engineering roles open to student visa holders, used to set the same filters on every visit. Now they set them once and adjust them whenever their plans change. Their next visit starts where the last one ended, which matters most for people who check a board briefly between lectures, shifts or other applications.
The second benefit is that the board comes to them. A member who has saved a search does not need to remember to look. When a role that matches what they told you they want appears, it lands in their inbox, and they can decide straight away whether it is worth applying for. Timing counts, because the members who hear about a role early are the ones most likely to apply before it closes.
The third benefit is less noise. Overlapping match alerts could send the same member several emails about similar roles. One ranked email, at the frequency they chose, with duplicates removed, is easier to read and easier to act on. An email that is consistently relevant is one people keep opening.
For communities with a clear focus, such as careers services supporting university graduates or a registered training provider in Australia, this turns the board from somewhere members visit when they remember into something that keeps working for them in the background.
What it means for your team
Saved searches do the engagement work that would otherwise fall on your team. There is no weekly roles round-up to assemble by hand and no need to guess what each member wants to hear about, because members have already told you through the searches they save.
They also pair with the tools you already use. Shareable filtered links let your team point a whole group at one view, in a newsletter, a slide or a message. Saved searches let each member keep their own. A board fed by roles arriving through the job stream gains the most, because fresh roles reach the members they suit without anyone forwarding them.
Will members get more email than before?
No. The job email replaces the overlapping match alerts members could receive before rather than adding to them. Each member gets one email at the daily or weekly frequency they choose, with the roles ranked and any duplicates removed.
Getting started
The changelog note on saved searches covers the release. Saved searches are being switched on board by board. Ask us to enable them on yours. Spacewalk runs a 14-day free trial with no credit card required and a 30-day money-back guarantee. A board goes live in about an hour.