You can think of email templates as form letters. They can be used as the basis for communicating with candidates. You might want to have standard templates for rejection letters, invitations to come in for interviews, or requests for references, for example. If you use a template as the basis for an email, but do not save it as a new template, any changes you made to the template will be sent to the recipient but will not be retained for future use. To keep a copy of what you send to each candidate, click Send a copy of this email to myself each time.