Application tracker
Also called job application tracker, job search spreadsheet.
A single record of every role you applied to, with its date, stage, contact, and next action — the job seeker's side of an ATS.
Past roughly fifteen open applications, memory stops working. You lose track of which version of your resume went where, which recruiter you already spoke to, and which of last month's applications is now old enough to follow up on. A tracker is the fix, whether it's a spreadsheet or a product feature.
The fields that earn their keep are: company, role, application date, source, current stage, the name of whoever you've spoken to, and one free-text note. The field people forget and then need most is the link to the original posting — postings get taken down, and turning up to an interview without the job description you applied against is a real disadvantage.
The tracker's second job is telling you what your funnel is doing. If a hundred applications produced two screens, the problem is upstream in targeting or in your resume, and sending a hundred more will reproduce the result. If eight screens produced no onsites, the problem is the screen itself. You cannot see either pattern without the record.
Ghosting
When an employer stops responding at any stage of a hiring process without ever declining you.
Follow-up
A short, timed message that re-surfaces your application or interview to the person deciding, without asking them to do work.
Pipeline
All the opportunities you have in progress at once, seen as a funnel from application through offer.