Ananya Iyer ·
Track your applications somewhere you will actually look
A spreadsheet with five columns is enough: company, role, date applied, source, and status.
The value is not the record keeping. It is that after four weeks you can see which sources produce interviews and which produce silence, and put your time where it converts.
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