Is a spreadsheet enough for a small search?

If you track a handful of URLs and dates, yes. Once you need fit scores, contacts, and drafts per role, a spreadsheet becomes a pile of tabs.

What should each role record include?

Posting link, fit, company research, who to message, outreach draft, and status — on one card, not split across sheets.

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How should you track job applications?

Track each role as one record with: posting link, fit assessment, company research, contacts, outreach status, and application date — not just URL and "applied." Spreadsheets store status; they do not run fit analysis or draft outreach. Puvio Hunter uses one card per role with Kanban stages from research through reply.

Updated 2026-07-20 · Written by the Puvio team · Deepam, founder · Corrections

What spreadsheets miss

A column for "status" does not tell you who to message or what to say.

Separate tabs for research, contacts, and drafts fragment the workflow.

How should you track job applications?

What spreadsheets miss

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