Keep track of where every application stands
See every application you have open, what state each one is in, and which of them have quietly gone cold.
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Thirty applications in, a job search stops being about any one job and turns into bookkeeping. Which of these have you actually heard back from. Which one was the Tuesday phone call about. Whether you already applied to the place advertising the same role again under a slightly different title. Most people run this on a spreadsheet, and most spreadsheets stop being updated in week three, usually the week the applications get interesting. The tracker is somewhere to put each application as you send it, with a status you move as things happen, so the answer to "where am I" is a screen rather than an hour in your sent folder.
What one application record holds
An application here is a small record you create. Company, role and the date you applied are required. The rest is optional and worth doing anyway: the location, the salary as advertised, a link to the posting, a follow-up date, the job description, and a notes field for the things that only mean anything to you. The recruiter's first name. That the second interview is with the team. The reason you nearly did not bother.
Status is one of five: applied, interview, offer, rejected, withdrawn. Withdrawn earns its place on that list. A search where you pulled out of two is a different search from one where you were turned down twice, and only you can tell those apart.
Four counters sit above the list: total, active, interviews and offers. Active means applied or interview, the ones still capable of moving. They count everything you have logged rather than the filtered view, so narrowing to one group never flatters the number.
The point where a spreadsheet stops holding
"I have applied for about thirty things and I could not tell you which." That is the week this starts paying for itself. Under roughly ten applications your memory is fine and a tracker is admin.
"I applied to the same company twice by accident." Search by company name before you send. The second advert is either a genuine reopening or the same job wearing a new title.
"I have two interviews and I keep mixing up which one wanted a presentation." That belongs in the notes field, written the day the email arrived rather than recalled on the morning.
"Half of these went quiet in July and I keep them open out of hope." Five cards sat in one column since July is the least sentimental way to find that out.
What you type in, field by field
- Add it the day you send it. Company, role, date. That is the required part, and it takes about as long as the confirmation email takes to arrive.
- Paste the advert while the tab is still open. Adverts come down within weeks, and once one has gone you cannot reread what you actually applied for. The pasted job description is also what interview questions are generated from later.
- Group them if you are applying in more than one direction. You name the groups: "support roles", "anything under 40 minutes away", "the ones I actually want". An application sits in one group or in none, and deleting a group moves its applications back to ungrouped rather than deleting them.
- Move the status when something happens. The five are yours to set. Nothing changes on its own, and no inbox is read to work it out for you.
- Switch to the pipeline when the list gets long. Five columns, applied through to withdrawn, one card per application. The list view is better for detail, with a search box for company or role and filters for status and group.
- Start interview prep from the application itself. It sits with the other actions on the record, and it reads the job description you pasted at step two.
Nine applications, read across five columns
Example
The board on a Sunday in October
| Status | Count | What is in it |
|---|---|---|
| Applied | 5 | Four sent in the past fortnight, one sent on 2 September |
| Interview | 2 | A district council, second stage. A wholesale bakery, first stage Thursday |
| Offer | 0 | Nothing yet |
| Rejected | 1 | A 40-person department store, by email, no reason given |
| Withdrawn | 1 | A distribution centre, pulled out after reading the shift pattern |
What that board says, and the counters do not
The 2 September one is not pending. Nine weeks in the applied column is a rejection nobody sent. Either set a follow-up date and chase it once, or move it to rejected and stop carrying it as live.
Active reads 7. The honest number is 6. The counter is doing what it says, adding applied to interview. You are the one who knows which of those has gone cold.
Two interviews out of nine is not this week's problem. Preparation is. Both of those have adverts saved on them, so both can carry a prep, and Thursday's is the one that needs it first.
The withdrawn row is worth keeping. It is the record of what you will not do. In week nine, when a similar shift pattern comes round, that row is the reason you do not spend an evening on it.
What the tracker does about any of this
Nothing. There is no nudge, no email, no automatic status change, no ranking of your pipeline. Everything above is you reading your own board. The tracker's job is to make the board exist and keep it honest.
Nothing arrives by itself
This is a manual tracker, and that word carries real weight. Career Auntie does not connect to job boards, does not read your inbox and does not import applications from anywhere. If you applied for something and did not type it in, it is not here.
It does not apply for jobs either. Nothing is submitted to any employer on your behalf, by the tracker or by any other part of Career Auntie. The status you see is the status you set, never one fetched from anywhere.
There are no reminders. A follow-up date is a date on a card. Nothing emails you on the day and no notification arrives.
And it will not tell you why an application went quiet. It will only make that harder to ignore.
Free, because there is no AI in it
The tracker costs nothing. Adding applications, changing statuses, grouping them, searching, the pipeline view and the counters are all free, and none of it touches your credit balance.
That is not an offer with an end date on it. Credits pay for AI work, and a tracker is a form and a database. Nothing is generated, so there is nothing to charge for. The one thing on an application that does cost credits is interview preparation, at 0.8 credits for a set of questions and 0.25 to score an answer.
Common questions
Does it find jobs or apply to them for me?
No to both. Nothing is imported from a job board, nothing is read out of your email, and nothing is ever submitted to an employer on your behalf. You add each application yourself and you set each status yourself. The tracker records the search you are running. It does not run it.
Does the tracker cost credits?
No. Adding applications, statuses, groups, search, the pipeline view and the counters are all free. Credits pay for AI work and there is none in a tracker. The only thing started from an application that costs anything is interview preparation: 0.8 credits for a set, and 0.25 to score one answer.
Why should I paste the job description in?
Two reasons. Adverts come down within weeks, so without a copy you cannot reread what you applied for before the interview. And the job description saved on the application is exactly what interview questions and sample answers are generated from later, so an application without one has nothing to work from.
What is the difference between rejected and withdrawn?
Rejected is their decision. Withdrawn is yours. Keeping them apart matters when you look back over a long search, because ten rejections reads very differently from six rejections and four jobs you decided against yourself after seeing the shift pattern, the salary or the commute.
Can I organise applications by type of role?
Yes, using groups, which you name yourself. An application sits in one group or in none, and you can filter both the list and the pipeline down to a single group. Deleting a group moves its applications back to ungrouped rather than deleting the applications themselves.
Will it remind me to follow up?
No. You can set a follow-up date and it shows on the application card, but nothing emails you and no notification is sent. It is a note to yourself, visible when you look. That is the same promise as the rest of the tracker: it holds what you put in it and does nothing behind your back.