Most of a job search is not applications. It is the staffing firm you registered with, the recruiter who went quiet, the job you asked about but never applied to, and the screen you took with no person on the other end. Version 2.0 of the Job Search Tracker counts each of those for what it is.
What’s new
- One page, five tabs: Dashboard, Active, History (the old Archive), Agencies, and Analytics. Records open in a side panel, and pop-ups are used only for quick entry. Your old bookmarks open the matching tab.
- Four kinds of record: a specific job, an inquiry, an agency or talent-pool sign-up, and a job board profile. Inquiries and agency contacts are counted on their own and never pad your application numbers.
- An Agencies tab: staffing firms, recruiters, talent pools, and job board profiles, with statuses, recruiter threads, linked jobs, response rate, days to first human contact, and requisitions per firm. If two firms send you the same end client and requisition, the tracker flags it, and you can link records as the same job.
- “Waiting on you”: the Dashboard lists assessments to complete, follow-ups due, upcoming interviews, offers awaiting an answer, and agency follow-ups.
- Screens are not conversations: assessments, AI voice and chat screens, and one-way video are recorded as screening steps and kept out of “human contact.”
- Closings that are not rejections: Withdrawn by me and Posting closed, plus Offer Accepted and Offer declined. Accepting an offer asks whether to withdraw your other applications.
- Reactivate: when a recruiter comes back about a job you had closed, reopen it from History. The earlier outcome stays in the timeline.
- Source and Method, separated: Source is where you found the listing; Method is how you submitted it. “Online” is split into job board quick apply and the employer’s or firm’s own careers site, with an optional ATS platform field. Older “Online” records read “Online (unspecified)”; the tracker never guesses.
- For anyone on unemployment: with the DOL module on, a weekly work-search record follows Georgia’s DOL-2798 categories, with print and mark-reported, and an optional weekly minimum you enter for your state. The tracker knows no state’s rules and submits nothing.
- Optional extras, off by default: Search insights, AI tool comparisons, and status and milestone messages, in a new Features tab.
- More analytics: offers, inquiries, Application Pace, screening steps, tailoring, Method, ATS platform, and staffing firms. Every 1.2 panel is kept.
- Safer saving: if the tracker is open in two windows, a save checks for changes made in the other window and offers to reload instead of overwriting.
What it doesn’t say
The tracker describes your search. It does not grade it. It cannot say why an employer chose someone else, or whether software or a person read your résumé. The optional insights and messages describe your own records and are for information only. Treat a pattern as a question to look into, and the How to Read Your Data guide shows how.
All four documents were rewritten for 2.0, and new fictional sample data shows every feature.
Already have it?
Updates are free. Export a full backup first, download version 2.0 from My Account, copy all of the files over your old ones, and open job-tracker.html. Version 2.0 adds many new files, so copying only some of them will not work. Your data is upgraded once, the first time it opens, and nothing is deleted. The README in the ZIP has the steps.
Get it
The Job Search Tracker is $25, one time, with no subscription. It runs in your browser, and your data stays on your machine. If you know someone who is job hunting, send them this post.
— Joel
Workers’ Rebellion LLC