Step 1 : Add the job
Paste the job description.
Paste the posting, or save a role from the job board and it comes across on its own. This is the only part you type, and the last time you handle the job details by hand.
Job application tracker
A job application tracker that fills itself in.
Paste a job description and FirstResume pulls out the title, the company, the requirements and the skills. No more copying job details into a spreadsheet.
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How it works
One click turns a job description into a tracked application.
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Why it matters
The spreadsheet is out of date the moment you close it.
You copy the title, the company and the link into a row, mean to come back and fill in the rest, and never do. Then you interview on a Tuesday and forget to write that down either. Two weeks later the dates are wrong, the statuses are guesses, and you stop opening the sheet.
- 200+
- applications the average job hunter sends before an offer
- 20 fields
- read out of each job description, from the hard skills to the application deadline
- Nothing to type
- the job details, the date and the compatibility score all arrive with the card
Why FirstResume
Scored on arrival
Every card shows how well you fit.
The compatibility score sits on the card from the moment it lands, so you can see where your next hour is best spent. A 92 sitting untouched in Saved is worth more of your evening than three more applications in the sixties.
Learn more about compatibility analysis- Score attached before you decide whether to apply
- Colour coded on the card, so strong fits stand out
- Sort or filter the whole board by fit, date or company
One card, every tool
Resume, letter, research and prep on the same card.
Open an application and the tailored resume, the cover letter, the company brief, the outreach emails and the interview questions for that job are all on it. Nothing sits in a separate folder waiting to be matched back up.
- Seven tabs per application: summary, compatibility, research, resume, cover letter, outreach and interview
- Everything generated for that job stays attached to that job
- Reopen a card weeks later and the whole application is still together
Stage aware checklists
The next move, next to the current stage.
Knowing an application sits in Applied does not tell you what to do about it. The checklist does: build the connections, send the follow up, prepare for the screen. Change the stage and the list changes with it.
- Recommended actions rewritten for each stage
- Links straight into the resume, letter or research it needs
- Progress ticks up as you finish the work, not as you tick boxes
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Old way, new way
The old way
A tracking spreadsheet
Columns you set up in week one
- Every application typed twice, once on the site and once here
- Nothing tells the sheet that the status changed
- No link to the resume you sent or the posting you answered
Your inbox and your memory
Search for the confirmation email
- Applications that never sent a confirmation vanish
- You notice the follow up you owed when the role has closed
- Two interviews at similar companies blur into one
The new way
FirstResume
A tracker built on the work itself
- Saving a role creates the card, filled in from the posting
- Compatibility scored before you decide to spend an evening on it
- Five stages you drag between, with a live count per column
- A checklist per stage showing what is still outstanding
- Resume, cover letter and research filed with the application
- Board or list, filtered down to what needs you today
A tracking spreadsheet
Columns you set up in week one
- Every application typed twice, once on the site and once here
- Nothing tells the sheet that the status changed
- No link to the resume you sent or the posting you answered
Your inbox and your memory
Search for the confirmation email
- Applications that never sent a confirmation vanish
- You notice the follow up you owed when the role has closed
- Two interviews at similar companies blur into one
The playbook
Six habits that keep a pipeline honest, useful whether you track it here, in a spreadsheet or on paper.
01Record the date beside the company
Almost every decision after you apply depends on when you applied. A follow up at day seven reads as keen; the same message at day thirty reads as an afterthought. Dates also tell you the truth about your pipeline. If nothing you sent in the last three weeks has moved at all, the problem is upstream in the resume or in the roles you are picking, not in your patience.
02Five stages is enough
Resist inventing a status for every shade of maybe. Saved, applied, interviewing, offer and rejected covers every real decision you have to make. More columns means more time deciding where a card belongs and less time applying. When you need nuance, put it in a note on the application rather than in a stage your future self will not recognise.
03Keep the posting, not the link
Job ads come down, often the week before your interview. Save the description itself when you apply. You will want it when you prepare answers, when you check what they said about the salary band, and when a recruiter asks what drew you to the role. A dead link three weeks later is the most annoying and most avoidable gap in a job hunt.
04A rejection is data if you write down where it happened
Note how far each one got: no reply at all, rejected after the screen, rejected after the final round. A pile of silent applications points at your resume and your targeting. A pile of final round rejections points at interview delivery. Those are completely different problems needing completely different work, and you cannot tell them apart from memory.
05Follow up once, on purpose
One short, specific follow up about a week after applying is worth sending. A second one rarely is. Name the role, add a single line of new information such as something you built or shipped since, and stop. Keep the date you sent it so you never send the same message twice to the same person, which is the quickest way to be remembered for the wrong thing.
06Review the whole board weekly
Checking a tracker hourly feels like progress and is not. Once a week, look at everything at once: which cards have gone quiet, which owe a follow up, which you should close out and stop thinking about. Then spend the rest of the week applying rather than refreshing. The point of a board is to hold what you would otherwise carry in your head.
Features
FAQ
What is a job application tracker?
It is one place that holds every role you are chasing and what stage each one has reached. FirstResume shows them as five columns, from Saved through Applied, Interviewing, Offer and Rejected, with the company, the date you added it and your compatibility score on the card. Open any card and you get the posting, the resume you sent and the actions still outstanding.
Why not use a job application spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet works right up to the point where updating it becomes the job. Every row is typed twice, once on the employer's site and once in your sheet, and nothing in the sheet knows that you interviewed on Tuesday. Here the card is created when you save the role and it changes as you work on the application, so the board still matches reality in week six.
Do I have to keep the tracker up to date myself?
Far less than you would expect. Saving a role creates the card and fills in the job details from the posting. The compatibility score comes from the analysis. Checklist progress moves as you tailor a resume or prepare for an interview. The one thing you do by hand is drag a card to a new stage, because only you know when that happened.
Can I track applications I found somewhere else?
Yes. Add an application from a link or by hand and it sits on the same board as everything else, with the same stages, the same checklist and the same documents attached. The tracker is not limited to roles from the FirstResume job board, which matters when half your applications come from company career pages and referrals.
What happens to the resume and cover letter I used?
They stay attached to the application they were written for. When a recruiter calls about a role you applied to five weeks ago, you can open that card and read the exact document they have in front of them. It also means your next similar application starts from the closest version you have rather than from your master resume.
Can I see a list instead of a board?
Yes. A toggle in the toolbar switches between the kanban board and a list view, and a filter field narrows either one down. The board is better for reading the shape of your pipeline at a glance, the list is better when you have sixty applications and want the four that need you today.
Will it tell me when to follow up?
The stage checklist is where that lives. An application sitting in Applied keeps its outstanding actions visible, including the follow up, until you tick them off, and the progress bar shows how much of that stage is done. It is a standing list rather than an alert, so nothing pings you at midnight and nothing quietly disappears either.
Is the job application tracker free?
You can track applications on the free plan and see how the board behaves with your own roles on it. Paid plans raise the monthly limits on tailoring, compatibility analysis, company research and interview preparation, which is where most of the board's automatic detail comes from.
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