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@@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ The Backend module is found in the **WEB** section under the name **Job Offers**
 
 You can create a new job offer by clicking on the **New Job Offer** button.
 
+## Setting the contact email
+When a user applies to a job offer an email will be send. The adress of this email comes either from the
+**contact person** assigned to the job, ot if no contact person is set, you can set a default contact person
+in your TypoScript settings:
+
+```
+	settings.defaultContactId = 1
+```  
+
+Simply supply the uid of the contact record and every job without a contact person will use the desired contact.
+
 ## Setting the record page id for the Joblist plugin
 You need to set the id of the page (or sys folder) where you store all your job offers, contacts and locations.
 To do this you can select the page/folder as Record Storage Page in the plugin settings.