Guides / Getting organized
How many jobs should I apply to each week?
Why there is no right number
It depends on your field, how specific the role is, and how many hours you have. Ten careful applications to jobs that fit are a better use of the same hours than fifty sent to anything with the right title. Still, nobody can give you a figure that is true for your search.
Set a target you can keep
- Decide how many hours a week the search gets.
- Time yourself on one full application, start to finish.
- Divide, then take a little off. That is your weekly target.
Count what you control
Replies and interviews depend on employers. Reviewing postings, saving the ones that fit and sending applications depend on you. Count those. A week with no replies and a met target is still a week of progress.
When to change the number
- You hit it easily for three weeks: raise it a little.
- You miss it two weeks running: lower it, or look at what takes the time.
- Applications feel rushed: lower it.
How Jobs.Dog helps
Goals in Jobs.Dog count the jobs you reviewed, saved and applied to each week, so you can see your effort add up in a slow week.
Jobs.Dog keeps your search in one place.Every job you save keeps its stage, your notes and the posting's text, and new jobs that fit your search arrive each day to save or pass.
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