Job Search Command Center
The offer almost never comes from application number one hundred. It comes from the person you talked to in week two and never followed up with.
What this is
Job Search Command Center has three pieces: Applications (every role, what stage it's at, what you do next), People (everyone you've spoken to, and when you owe them a message), and Interview Prep (the six answers you write once and reuse for a year). Three. A job search doesn't need a dashboard, it needs a next step.
Setup
Running in three steps
No integrations, no API keys, no formulas to repair.
Buy
Checkout opens shortly. The template link will arrive by email the moment it does.
Duplicate
Open the link and hit Duplicate. The page, the databases, the columns and the example rows land in your own workspace.
Start
Open Start Here and follow the daily rhythm. It is a short read, and it is the only page you have to read.
The method
What is inside, page by page
Every column and every view below is written into the spec this template is built from, so what you duplicate is what you read here.
Start here
Start Here
A job search runs on two habits: a short list you work every morning, and sixty seconds of writing after every conversation. Friday you look up and see the shape of it. Fifteen minutes a day.
- Morning — 10 minutes
- After every conversation — 60 seconds
- Friday — 20 minutes
- The day you get an interview
- What to resist
The system
Applications
One row = one role at one company. Opened the day you apply, closed the day you get a yes, a no, or you decide it's a no.
📋 Applications
One row = one role at one company. Opened the day you apply, closed out loud.
Columns
- Company Title
- Role Text
- Stage Select · Applied / Screen / Interview / Final / Offer / Rejected
- Applied date Date
- Next step Text
- Next step date Date
- Salary target USD Number · Dollar
- Notes Text
Views
- TodayTablefiltered:
Next step dateis on or beforeTodayANDStageis notRejected· sorted:Next step dateascending — The morning view. Work it top to bottom, then close the tab. - BoardBoardgrouped by
Stage— Friday's view, read right to left. Full Applied and empty Screen means the problem is upstream. - Going quietTablefiltered:
Next step dateis before the last 10 days ANDStageis notOfferANDStageis notRejected· sorted:Applied dateascending — Every row gets a follow-up with a date, or a close with a reason. - Live rolesTablefiltered:
Stageis notRejected· sorted:Salary target USDdescending · footer:AverageonSalary target USD— That average is the search you are actually running, which is not always the one you think you are running.
People
One row = one human. Not a network, not contacts you might use — people you have actually spoken to, and what you owe them next.
👥 Contacts
One row = one human you have actually spoken to, and when you owe them a message.
Columns
- Name Title
- Company Text
- How we met Text
- Last touch Date
- Next touch Date
- Notes Text
Views
- Owed a messageTablefiltered:
Next touchis on or beforeToday· sorted:Next touchascending — Open it every morning, next to Today in Applications. - By companyTablegrouped by
Company· sorted:Last touchdescending — Check here before you apply anywhere. A name inside the building beats any cover letter. - Gone coldTablefiltered:
Last touchis before 60 days ago · sorted:Last touchascending — One warm line, no ask. Most of these are one message from being useful again. - This week's peopleCalendarsorted:
Next touchascending — ByNext touch. Three conversations a week is a working search; zero is a queue.
Interview Prep
You are asked the same six questions for a year. Write the answers once, well, and interview prep becomes twenty minutes of choosing rather than two evenings of panic.
- The six stories
- Say them out loud, once each
- The four questions you ask them
- The forty minutes before
- Salary, when it comes up
- After every interview — 5 minutes
What's included
Everything you get on duplicate
- 🧭 Start Here
- 📋 ApplicationsApplications: 8 columns, 4 views
- 👥 PeopleContacts: 6 columns, 4 views
- 🎤 Interview Prep
- 13 example rowsA worked example in every table, so the system arrives already breathing. Delete them when it is yours.
- Duplicate straight into your own workspaceOne click. Nothing to install, no integration to connect.
Job Search Command Center
The offer almost never comes from application number one hundred. It comes from the person you talked to in week two and never followed up with.