You should track your job search in a spreadsheet. This gives you the ability to see how you are progressing on your job search: how many applications you’ve put in, how many interviews you’ve done.
I like to track each of these fields:
- # – Count the number of resumes
- Company – Company Name
- Job Title – Job title
- Req Number – If there’s a req number
- Source – LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, etc.
- Link – URL to the job description
- Posted Date – Date the job was posted
- Date Applied – Date you applied
- Called recruiter – Check mark if you called the recruiter
- Emailed friends – Check mark if you emailed friends
- Emailed recruiters – Check mark if you emailed recruiters
- How many recruiters – # of recruiters emailed
- Reply from recruiter – Check mark if you got a reply
- Emailed Hiring Mgr – Check mark if you emailed the hiring manager
- Recruiter – Name of the recruiter
- Hiring Mgr – Name of hiring manager
- Digital Interview – Date of digital interview
- Recruiter phone screen – Date of recruiter phone screen
- Phone Screen – Date of phone screen
- Interview – Date of interview 1
- Interview 2 – Date of interview 2
- Interview 3 – Date of interview 3
- Interview 4 – Date of interview 4
- Total number of interviews – Count of all interviews
- Response date – Date you get a response
- Days since applied – How many days from date you applied to response date
- Disposition – Track the answer as one of: “No”, “Interview”, “Withdraw”, etc
- Disposition – Track the reason for rejection
- Response type – Track the type of response: “Automated email”, “Email from recruiter”
This will give you the ability to summarize your stats in a way like this:
My best suggestion is that you use something like Microsoft Excel to track your progress. For $49.99 for a 1 year subscription, this is a great deal. Click the Amazon link below for quick access.
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