Job Application Summary - a control for Job-Seekers
When conducting a job search, many people relate success to going from a dead stop to finding the job opportunities they want quickly with no effort. Reality is very different. Job search success, can be defined as finding as many of the opportunities you really want and need for your career in the shortest time and capitalizing on them. Job search success is really about incremental success and become career development.
There are four major components to organizing a job search.
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Strategy - your goals
- Tactics - what you will do
- Timeline - outlines the what, when, and who of your search
- Metrics - how you will measure the success of your goals
Real success is measured in steps, and every step you successfully complete builds valuable momentum. If you measure your success by creating metrics for each tactic you deploy, you will be able to determine if anything needs to be adjusted or changed in order to shore up performance.
On Uberistic you can measure your progression with each job application in series of predefined steps. This invaluable information will allow you to adapt and refine your job search.