Triggering employer notifications for new candidate matches

Purpose

 1.1. Automate notifications to employers when new candidate profiles match job postings, improving speed and efficiency in city employment processes.
 1.2. Ensure real-time, automated communication to keep employers informed, enhancing employer engagement.
 1.3. Streamline talent sourcing by automatedly reducing manual review time for employment department staff.
 1.4. Provide an automatable trigger-based workflow that notifies relevant companies as soon as new candidate data is entered or updated.
 1.5. Enhance city service delivery by automating the match and notify process, improving local employment outcomes.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. New candidate entry in database whose skills match employer requirements.
 2.2. Update in the candidate’s profile that meets set job match criteria.
 2.3. Employer posts a new job opening and matches an existing candidate profile automatically.
 2.4. Weekly or real-time scan automation to detect new candidate-job matches.
 2.5. Automated matching engine signals a successful match event.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Outlook Mail
  • Feature/Setting: Use Microsoft Graph API to automate sending emails when match detected; Configure with: /me/sendMail endpoint and dynamic employer list.
 3.2. Twilio SMS
  • Feature/Setting: Automate SMS using Twilio Programmable Messaging API; sample: POST to /Messages with employer’s mobile number and notification text.
 3.3. Slack
  • Feature/Setting: Automate notifications by sending POST to chat.postMessage API for employer workspaces; configure channel and message text.
 3.4. SendGrid
  • Feature/Setting: Use SendGrid API to automatedly dispatch emails; configure with /mail/send endpoint and dynamic employer data.
 3.5. Microsoft Teams
  • Feature/Setting: Automate notifications via Teams Connector Incoming Webhook to employer channels; custom webhook URL and JSON payload.
 3.6. Gmail
  • Feature/Setting: Automate alerts by sending messages via Gmail API, users.messages.send with employer recipient and template.
 3.7. WhatsApp Business API
  • Feature/Setting: Use /messages endpoint to automate employer notifications; configure with employer phone, template, data fields.
 3.8. Telegram
  • Feature/Setting: Automate via Bot API sendMessage to employer chat ID; configure bot token and message.
 3.9. Salesforce
  • Feature/Setting: Automate task creation and email via Salesforce REST API /services/data/vXX.0/sobjects/Task.
 3.10. HubSpot
  • Feature/Setting: Automated workflow to send notification to employer contact via Workflows API.
 3.11. Zoho CRM
  • Feature/Setting: Automate through Zoho CRM API, /crm/v2/Notifications/ to inform employer contacts.
 3.12. Mailgun
  • Feature/Setting: Automate email notification via /messages API; configure domain, recipient, and candidate info.
 3.13. SMS Global
  • Feature/Setting: Automate SMS by POSTing to SMSGlobal HTTP API /sms.send for matched employers.
 3.14. Discord
  • Feature/Setting: Automate via sending webhook messages to employer Discord channel.
 3.15. Web Push (OneSignal)
  • Feature/Setting: Automated web push via POST to /notifications API; employer’s segment and custom message.
 3.16. Freshdesk
  • Feature/Setting: Automates notification as ticket/note via /api/v2/tickets API for employer contacts.
 3.17. Zendesk
  • Feature/Setting: Automate internal/external message via /api/v2/tickets or /api/v2/notifications endpoints.
 3.18. Asana
  • Feature/Setting: Automate task/notification for employer by POSTing to /tasks API when a match occurs.
 3.19. Monday.com
  • Feature/Setting: Automate updates to employer via mutation API, notify column or integration recipe.
 3.20. Google Chat
  • Feature/Setting: Automate message to employer using Google Chat API /spaces.messages.create.
 3.21. Pipedrive
  • Feature/Setting: Automate notification by creating activity in employer’s Pipedrive deal via /activities endpoint.
 3.22. Webex
  • Feature/Setting: Automate message notification via Webex Messages API /v1/messages; configure roomId and text.
 3.23. Facebook Workplace
  • Feature/Setting: Automate post via /groups/{group-id}/feed or direct message to employer group.

Benefits

 4.1. Automates updates and reduces manual communication for employment department.
 4.2. Enables real-time, automated engagement with employers, minimizing match-to-notify interval.
 4.3. Provides automatable, multi-platform options to adapt to various employer communication preferences.
 4.4. Improves placement rates with automated, systematic match notifications.
 4.5. Scalable automation for growing candidate and employer database without extra staff effort.