{"id":126,"date":"2022-08-29T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/?p=126"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T00:21:12","slug":"jobapplicationmanagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/2022\/08\/29\/jobapplicationmanagement\/","title":{"rendered":"as good as one can be job-hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_682454728-1.jpg\" alt=\"Job Search\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My goal was to obtain a full time opportunity by the end of summer 2022 in the beginning I embarked on working with Borealis AI on developing FIRST E.A.D. I have applied to approximately 270 roles now, however asI was focused on tailoring my resumes and cover letters to meet each job description I applied to. I failed to keep a record of my job applications, this became an issue as I started to apply to roles, and the website wouldn&#8217;t accept the application because I had already applied submitted an application for it last week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>I needed to get a dataset of jobs available and the jobs I have applied for, and then use those datapoints to find jobs I haven&#8217;t applied to yet, and find roles that I have to follow up upon.<\/p>\n<h2>Jobs Applied Dataset<\/h2>\n<p>I realized most of my applications were followed up with an email confirmation of my application, hence I wrote an AppleScript that would extract<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Date<\/li>\n<li>Content<\/li>\n<li>Subject<\/li>\n<li>Sender<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From the application confirmation emails I have received, and add them to a database.<\/p>\n<h2>Open Roles Dataset<\/h2>\n<p>Many websites such as Whatjobs, ZipRecruiter and Careerjet have APIs that can be used to extract open positions in a csv format. Hence I obtained an open roles dataset.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Its a pretty impressive idea, I am surprised there is not an application that helps job seekers manage their applications without a commercial motive. Some bigger ideas I had for the app, is to have one app to manage your job applications, the job applications get tagged every week with a priority flag for follow-up. The applications that make the short-list get assorted into success piles and experience is matched with job description to recommend points to emphasize on in the application.<\/p>\n<h3>Results<\/h3>\n<p>After following up with a few firms, I realized that some firms have not begun short listing candidates and the others didn&#8217;t reply to the follow-up so I can only guess they are in the same boat as the ones that replied.<\/p>\n<p>for the ones I applied to recently, expect a follow-up coming to you soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goal was to obtain a full time opportunity by the end of summer 2022 in the beginning I embarked on working with Borealis AI on developing FIRST E.A.D. I have applied to approximately 270 roles now, however asI was focused on tailoring my resumes and cover letters to meet each job description I applied &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/2022\/08\/29\/jobapplicationmanagement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;as good as one can be job-hunting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/sumitm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}