Building a saved-search profile involves creating and naming a new profile, supplying it with search criteria, and setting its notification options.
To create a saved-search profile:
Log in to your volunteer account (see Logging in to Your Volunteer Account for instructions, if needed).
On your myHome page, in the Retrieve Results From Your Volunteer Profile section, click the create a profile link. Note that you can also click the Your Account link at the top of the page to be taken to the Account Manager, where you will find a Create a new volunteer profile link in the Volunteer Profiles section that will also launch the profile builder.
In the Create a Volunteer Profile page, provide a name for the new profile (required) and select the sets of search criteria you would like VS to use.
Click Next.
Using the text boxes, drop-down menus, and option boxes provided in the profile-builder pages, provide and/or select search terms and settings to provide the profile with the criteria it will need to filter opportunities, clicking Next to move from page to page. Note that how many of these criteria-setting pages you will have to fill out for your new saved-search profile will depend on what sets of search criteria you opted to complete on the Create a Volunteer Profile page in Step 3.
In the final page of the profile builder (the Set Email Alerts page), you will be given the option to have your new profile update you by email when new opportunities meeting its search criteria are posted. Select the frequency of these email alerts and the number of matching opportunities that should be sent to you (you can change this later).
Click Next.
You will be taken to the Your Account in your account, where you will see the new saved-search profile listed as a link in the Volunteer Profiles section. Clicking the link will take you another page with additional links that allow you to run, edit, and delete this profile.