{"id":222,"date":"2011-09-21T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-09-21T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T21:52:56","slug":"missing-tools-for-people-looking-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Missing tools for people looking for jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned it before in some blog posts that I&#8217;m out looking for a job. In my job searching process, there is a couple of nice tools that I am missing. Maybe if I describe one of them, someone will say that it already exists over there -> or something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tool 1. Tracking of data related to a job application.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor each such application I send I have a set of data, some pieces only for some applications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact data for company<\/li>\n<li>The open position I&#8217;m applying for on the web<\/li>\n<li>The web form I submitted a application thru<\/li>\n<li>The email I used to submit my application<\/li>\n<li>Further emailing with the company<\/li>\n<li>Further chat logs (jabber or irc) with the company<\/li>\n<li>My jotting down during or after a (phone) interview<\/li>\n<li>Other data I&#8217;ve gathered about the company<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would like one simple way of browsing all this information for a given position.<\/p>\n<p>Does this exist? preferably something that can interact with Konqueror, KMail, KAddressbook, KJots, Kopete and irssi on a remote machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tool 2: Tracking of tasks with states<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is &#8211; at least &#8211; the following steps in a job searching process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interesting company found<\/li>\n<li>Initial contact<\/li>\n<li>More information sent<\/li>\n<li>Phone interview<\/li>\n<li>First interview<\/li>\n<li>Second interview<\/li>\n<li>First draft contract<\/li>\n<li>Signed contract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A job application might go thru some or all of these steps or even more steps, and from each step it can end prematurely with a &#8216;rejection&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Here, I&#8217;m missing a tool to track my applications and in which state they are currently in. My first thought here is a bug tracking system, but I&#8217;m wondering if there is something nicer. Currently I&#8217;m tracking it manually in a KJots notebook.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are open. And no, I haven&#8217;t yet found a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have mentioned it before in some blog posts that I&#8217;m out looking for a job. In my job searching process, there is a couple of nice tools that I am missing. Maybe if I describe one of them, someone will say that it already exists over there -> or something. Tool 1. Tracking of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pusling.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}