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Job Application Reminder

Reminder notification sent to students to encourage them to complete job applications for positions they have shown interest in.

Attribute
Channelsemail
User typesStudents
RegionsNA
Platformsweb, iOS, Android
Product areaJobs, Applications
Notification preferencetrigger_job_application_reminder_job_user
Notification config/v1/job_application_reminder.yml

Audience​

Students who have shown interest (e.g. viewed or saved) in job postings but have not yet applied.

Trigger​

A DAG runs daily, publishing messages to the PubSub topic job-application-reminders. There is a ruby subscriber that processes those PubSub messages.

How to test​

Command line​

Development​

# start databases
$ ./bin/comp db up

# start listener
$ next/apps/notifications/bin/job_application_reminder_listener

# start notifications 
$ foreman start -f Procfile.notifications

# start rails console
$ bundle exec rails c
> data = {
  "user_id" => "125",
  "first_name" => "Jane",
  "last_name" => "Doe",
  "preferred_name" => "JaneDoe",
  "email_address" => "jane@joinhandshake.com",
  "jobs" => [
    {
      "job_id" => "2",
      "job_title" => "Development Intern",
      "employer_id" => "2",
      "employer_name" => "The Build Things Company",
      "employer_logo_image" => "20002/original/hs-emp-logo-data.",
      "employer_logo_url" => "https://s3.amazonaws.com/handshake.production/app/public/assets/institutions/20002/original/hs-emp-logo-data.",
      "score" => "4.874535083770752",
      "posting_id" => "1"
    }
  ]
}

> Pubsub.publish(topic_name: 'job-application-reminders', message: data)

# if you need to test again by publishing a second message, you'll have to delete the redis key
# from rails console
$ $redis.with { |conn| conn.del( "#{SENT_JOB_APPLICATION_REMINDER_NOTIFICATION_REDIS_KEY}:125") }

Additional info​

Implementation​

Sends via Mailgun:

  • Mailer
  • Mailgun Tag: job_application_reminder

Experiments​

Aliases​

  • Application Reminder
  • Job Application Follow-up

Resources​