How do you track your job applications?

Question

I recently started looking for a new job and made a simple spreadsheet to myself to keep track of my applications. However, It quickly grew in size and it became tedious to navigate. I wonder if there are good solutions out there.What tools do you use to track your job applications?

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

I built a workflow engine with python and arangodb that I used to extract job listings from things like HN’s who’s hiring and America’s job bank and then evaluate if I want to apply, if I did apply, etc. The goal was to train a text classifier to filter job listings but I got a job with an A.I. company about as soon as I started using it by telling them about it.
After I left that place it took me a little longer to find my current job, if it had taken any longer I would have given myself a job cleaning out bogus job listings from the job bank (e.g. the Java job in Syracuse that is really COBOL and in Atlanta…)
I took the code out of mothballs and completed the classifier and now it is the smart RSS reader I knew was possible in 2005.

DamonHD · Answer

Ha, I created a whole site to remember which agents I'd been speaking to, and used it to test CDNs and ads!https://www.jworkers.co.uk/

adastra22 · Answer

Get an agent.

How do you track your job applications?

I recently started looking for a new job and made a simple spreadsheet to myself to keep track of my applications. However, It quickly grew in size and it became tedious to navigate. I wonder if there are good solutions out there.
What tools do you use to track your job applications?

Ha, I created a whole site to remember which agents I'd been speaking to, and used it to test CDNs and ads!
https://www.jworkers.co.uk/

Get an agent.