u/Exotic-Barnacle-2403

Asking for myself because I’m like 2 months into job searching now and my system is starting to break 😭 I apply to so many roles that half the time when a recruiter emails me back 2 weeks later, I genuinely have to pretend I remember the company/job description.

Right now I just use a Google Sheet with: company, role, date applied, status, JD link, notes/comments.

which sounds organized, but manually updating it every day becomes annoying fast and then I stop maintaining it properly.

I’ve looked at a few job trackers lately (Huntr, Careerflow etc.) but I also know myself well enough to know I’ve downloaded like 6 “productivity” tools this year and abandoned all of them after 4 days.

not even exaggerating.

1/ morning → “we regret to inform you…” : signed by “talent acquisition team”

2/ afternoon → linkedin ping from their hiring lead: “hey, came across your profile, looks great, would love to chat”

same company. same role. i actually checked twice to make sure it wasn’t a scam. i don’t even know what’s worse:

1/ their system auto-rejecting while the team is still sourcing

2/ or no one internally knowing what’s going on

starting to feel like half of job hunting is just navigating broken processes. i’ve been trying to track where i’ve applied came across tools like careerflow for this kind of tracking+ who i’ve spoken to because stuff like this keeps happening, but honestly this one just made me laugh.

has this happened to anyone else or is this a new level of chaos?