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Sending SMS

Character limits, bulk sending, and what happens to candidate replies.

Written by Maciej Michalewski

You send SMS from the same places as email: the candidate card, the profile, and bulk actions.

On the candidate profile, click the "Send a message" icon in the top right corner. On the recruitment board, hover over a candidate card and click the envelope icon in the bar that appears below the card.

Candidate profile with the Send a message icon in the top right corner

Candidate card on the recruitment board with the send message icon

Character limits

The limit depends on the characters in the text:

  • only unaccented letters, digits and spaces: up to 1530 characters,

  • any other character, for example an accented letter, a full stop, a comma or a line break: up to 670 characters.

One message is at most 10 billable SMS. The longer limit only applies when the text has no accented letters and no punctuation.

Send message SMS window with the character and message counters

Bulk sending

Select candidates on the list and choose to send a message. You see the text before it goes — worth checking that variables filled in for everyone.

The "Send message" option is in the menu under the plus button in the top right corner of the candidate list.

Candidate list with selected people and the menu with the Send message option

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