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I object to paying for LinkedIn pro when they're making money off me being recruited but for a tool I can use to manage a stressful process, this feels different.
I think that the area where I'd love some tool to help me would be keeping track of phone calls - ideally even attaching recordings to a proper company, transcribing them and summarizing. It's easy to get back to an email because stored but in case of a phone call I need to make notes quickly.
When I keep track of things in a text file or spreadsheet it's easy to get an overview quickly - because it's all on a "single page". I can even grep for some key word. I don't think Rolepad UI helps here. The current the company list shows only name, position and stage. I would like to at least see some "comment" for each.
The last time I searched for a job I created labels in gmail for each position and created rules to automatically label incoming emails. It was very easy, just select an email -> "filter messages like these" -> label (set new to jobs/company-name) and done. While I could potentially use Rolepad to store notes about companies I doubt that I would forward emails there because I don't see potential benefits since Rolepad won't automatically update any entries on its own. Maybe if I it aggregated all communication channels? emails, phone calls, linkedin messages, etc
By the way - I use multiple email addresses (wildcard in my own domain) when contacting recruiters but the accounts have just one so the email forwarding won't work.
Very cool, and useful! Though I wouldn't trust this for jobs which require clearances etc. Also, I'd be afraid of hiring managers emails being leaked, but from one of your post, your security seems to be decent.
Thank you! Would you mind expanding on the concern around hiring manager emails getting leaked? Curious what you consider sensitive in these emails and how that data might be used inappropriately. Just want to ensure I don't have gaps in my risk assessment.
sorry but I do not see this as useful. I just use a spreadsheet and that is good enough. The hard part of job interviewing is learning all the useless Leetcode and preparing the stories in "STAR format" and interviewing taking up 5 hours and the indefinite period of time for replies. Not the tracking.
sorry but I do not see this as useful. I just use a spreadsheet and that is good enough. The hard part of job interviewing is learning all the useless Leetcode and preparing the stories in "STAR format" and interviewing taking up 5 hours and the indefinite period of time for replies. Not the tracking.
Tracking which job you applied for is the least of the job applicant's concerns when looking for a job. In some circumstances the first step of the job application process is even fire-and-forget, and tracking those only serves to not apply again which is a zero-effort move.
Once you start to get a process going, emails and calendars already leave a good, easy to follow paper trail, and any need you might have is easily fixed with a text file/spreadsheet.
sorry but I do not see this as useful. I just use a spreadsheet and that is good enough. The hard part of job interviewing is learning all the useless Leetcode and preparing the stories in "STAR format" and interviewing taking up 5 hours and the indefinite period of time for replies. Not the tracking.
It seems like any product offering public ratings will end up having fake ratings.
What have you considered to make sure reviews remain legit?
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What kind of competitive benchmarking would you offer?
Compensation is top of mind for me. An applicant [EDIT: application, not applicant] tracking system is well-positioned to have a solid, up-to-date view into the compensation landscape, unlike sites like Glassdoor and Blind which are more lagging and self-selecting. Balanced with privacy, there is some real opportunity here. Outside of compensation - all sorts of analytics pertaining to interview process, how quickly…