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Ask HN: How do you track your job applications?

2 points by olzhasar ↗ HN
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?

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PaulHoule
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.