Job Application Tracker & Interview Prep Kit (Printable)

Use both if you like — the eight tracker columns copy straight into any spreadsheet, and the kit tells you exactly what each column is for and why it earns its place. What a spreadsheet cannot do is sit open next to you during an interview. The run sheet, the STAR cards, the questions page and the debrief are designed to be held, written on, and read at a glance while someone is talking to you. The tracking half works anywhere; the preparation half works on paper.

No, and the kit assumes exactly that starting point. There is a one-evening archaeology exercise that reconstructs what you can from sent mail, confirmation emails and browser history, a clean way to close out what is genuinely unrecoverable, and a reset that gets you organized without pretending the first six weeks did not happen. The worked example starts in precisely this position: 47 untracked applications, no interviews, and a phone call she could not answer.

Deliberately not — those are three separate crafts and each deserves its own dedicated workbook. This kit is the connective tissue between them: knowing where every application stands, what you said and to whom, and walking into every interview prepared. It tells you which resume version went where rather than writing the bullets, and it prices an offer accurately rather than coaching the negotiation. Everything else you own works better once this part is running.