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Job Application Tracker

One tracker for every application, contact, interview stage and follow-up, with weekly reviews, funnel numbers and a clean close, so an active job search stays organised and nothing slips.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Job Application Tracker, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

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🧭 Career Growth

Job Application Tracker

Tracking applications, contacts, interview stages and follow-ups so an active search stays organised and nothing slips.

  1. Choosing where the application tracker lives
  2. Tracker columns and stage definitions
  3. Importing every live application into the tracker
  4. Saving each job advert before it disappears
  5. Application document folder and version naming
  6. Search inbox, labels and email filters
  7. Applicant portal accounts register
  8. Weekly application targets and time budget
  9. Contact log for hiring managers and referrers
  10. Target employer list feeding the tracker
  11. Friday pipeline review
  12. Follow-up rhythm after applying
  13. Ten-minute daily inbox and portal check
  14. Interview stage calendar and schedule
  15. Post-interview notes and thank-you log
  16. Closing out stale and rejected applications
  17. Monthly job search funnel numbers
  18. Job alert and saved search pruning
  19. Referral request pipeline
  20. Closing date look-ahead
  21. Reading your application funnel
  22. How applicant tracking systems handle your application
  23. Writing follow-up emails that get replies
  24. Typical hiring timelines in your target sector
  25. Spreadsheet skills for a working tracker
  26. Spotting fake job adverts and recruitment scams
  27. Tailored versus volume application experiment
  28. Comparing job boards, referrals and direct approaches
  29. Pruning the target list after the first month
  30. Faster tracker entry with clippers and shortcuts
  31. Choosing a dedicated job search tracker app
  32. Rejection feedback requests and pattern log
  33. Deliberately pausing or scaling down the search
  34. Search launch week with ten applications
  35. Tracking a graduate scheme application season
  36. Careers fair follow-up batch
  37. Final-stage week with parallel processes
  38. Closing the search after accepting an offer
  39. Student tracker alongside coursework deadlines
  40. Confidential tracker while still employed
  41. Job search activity record for unemployment benefits
  42. Parent or carer searching in short windows
  43. Cross-border search tracker with time zones
  44. Career changer tracking two target fields
  45. Contract and interim role pipeline
  46. Tracker data privacy and retention
  47. Job search post-mortem report
  48. Reusable job search playbook
  49. Job search accountability group
  50. Helping someone set up their first tracker

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing where the application tracker lives

Searches fall apart when applications are scattered across three inboxes, a notes app and a browser full of tabs. Picking one home for the tracker on day one, a spreadsheet, a board app or a notes database, means every later habit has somewhere to land. The best tool is the one you will open on your phone in a queue.

First tasks

  • List every place an application currently lives: inboxes, notes, portals, tabs
  • Try a spreadsheet and one board app with five real applications each
  • Pick one tool and open it on your phone to check it is usable there
  • Export or back up the tracker to a second location @recurring(monthly:3)

Tracker columns and stage definitions

Without agreed stages, "applied" can mean anything from a two-click submission to a referral with a phone call booked. Defining eight to ten columns and a fixed list of stages, from Saved to Closed, makes the tracker sortable and turns it into data you can count later.

First tasks

  • Write the column list on paper before touching the tool
  • Define each stage in one line, including what counts as Closed
  • Add dropdowns or tags so stages cannot be typed differently
  • Freeze the header row and sort by next action date

Importing every live application into the tracker

Most people start tracking after they have already applied to a dozen places, and those early applications are the ones that go quiet unnoticed. Searching your inbox and job board histories once and entering every live application gives an honest starting count.

First tasks

  • Search your inbox for phrases such as thank you for applying and application received
  • Open the applied list on each job board you have used
  • Enter each application with its date, source and current stage
  • Write the total of live applications at the top of the tracker

Make it yours.

Install Job Application Tracker, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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