Let’s be honest, job hunting is not sexy or exciting, and preparing for one is equally frustrating. In this post, I will walk you through my ultimate job tracking setup built on the notion.

Goal:

I want to plan, prepare and organize my job applications and related stuffs in such a way that, I have all the information on hand from the beginning to offer stage.

Problem:

There isn’t any all-in-one tool designed for job applicants that could help, or at least I haven’t heard of.

Notion Rescue:

Notion is a note-taking app on steroids with databases. So my plan for the ultimate dashboard was simple.

• Job
  • I need to know jobs I applied for
  • Companies I applied with
  • Job Description
  • Job Qualification

• People
  • I wanted to track recruiter for the job I applied
  • I wanted to organize LinkedIn connection with the company and job I applied for

• My profile for each job
  • Resume
  • My strongest point for job description

• Interview
  • All scheduled interviews

• Offer
  • I wanted to track all job offer(s), so I can compare them if there are multiple offers.

• Reading Materials
  • List of reading materials (tweets, articles, notes)

Ultimately, for each job application, I wanted consolidate all the notes and information in one single page so I can pop that open when I am speaking with recruiters.

Besides that, every now and then I stumble into an interesting piece of information or tweet that I find helpful in preparing for the job and save them as Reading materials. To automatically save tweets into the notion, I use SaveToNotion bot.