Ask HN: If you are a job seeker, whats your ideal software to manage the search?

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Hello HN,

Just contemplating an idea: Say you are looking for a job. Since there are thousands of companies out there, each potentially with its own response pace, requirements, steps, and so on, an app to manage this could fill a really nice niche. How would you envision such an app to be? What would be a killer feature, and would you pay for it?

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I usually only use a spreadsheet. I maintain one to keep track of interesting companies for the future (e.g. when I receive a cold email that seems interesting but am not ready for a move yet), I also use it to list companies I don't want to do business with - either they were difficult to deal with in the past or their recruiters were not behaving professionally.

When actively looking I list companies, contacts there, pros/cons, recruiting process.

I would definitely not pay for an app I would use every other year at the most.

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