You can run a saved-search profile any time you are logged into your volunteer account. The profile will search the existing opportunities currently available in VS for any that match the criteria you supplied it when you created it.
To run 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, select the name of the saved-search profile you would like to run from the drop-down menu and click Go!
Any opportunities that meet the criteria used by the saved-search profile are displayed, or VS will notify you that no opportunities were found. View the search results and read the summaries for any opportunities retrieved.
If you are interested in an opportunity, click on the name of the opportunity (or the more link at the end of the summary) to read the full listing and decide if you want to follow up on it.
Note that if you have an email alert set up for the profile, running the profile manually will not keep the next email alert for the profile from being sent out. Thus you may see listings in the email alert later on that you already found by running the profile.