I use a Kanban board to track the status of the various jobs I've looked at and found interesing.
I've iterated a bunch on this. I'm currently using 6 columns, moving Left to right:
These jobs look interesting enough that I've made [[Research Notes|one note per role]]
"I have applied to this role"
"After considering, I am not going to apply"
- Applied
- Some contact
- I have decided that I do not want this role
- Applied
- Some contact
- They decided that they aren't interested in me
- Applied
- ZERO contact from the company
- This is very useful for when you find other roles at these companies
Anything that was interesting to record, I put in the "Considering" column. I move along the columns to the right with these rules:
stateDiagram-v2
state "Considering" as A
state "Applied" as B
state "No Appliaction" as C
state "Pass" as D
state "Company Pass" as E
state "Ghosted" as F
A --> B
A --> C
B --> D
B --> E
B --> F
Whatever you use for this kanban board, I use an Obsidian link from the board back to the [[Research Notes|one note per role]] (Obsidian links to a file in this notebook is on the "kebab" details menu on the top right).