Purpose: Adding placeholders in your email correspondence with candidates helps you streamline your communication process. This help guide will teach you how to use placeholders to add basic information when emailing a candidate.

Table of Contents

• Create a new email
  • 1. A candidate's profile
  • 2. The candidate overview table
  • 3. Settings
• Placeholders 
• What placeholders are available for Hiring email templates?

You can use placeholders, or merge fields, to add basic information to an email message in BambooHR's Applicant Tracking System. You can add placeholders when creating a new message or email template from the following locations:

When creating an email message or email template, you will notice a list of available placeholders on the right. You can add a placeholder to your message in two ways:

1. Move your cursor to the correct place in the message and click the appropriate placeholder.

2. Click on the selected placeholder and drag it to the desired place in your message.

Once you add the placeholders to your message, the information for these fields will auto-populate when the message sends. Note that you can personalize the subject line of your message with placeholders.