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What the Tracker Is
Every application you have sent, in one pipeline, with the stage each has reached. That much a spreadsheet does. The reason this one is worth using instead is that ORQILO also holds the résumé you sent and the role you were targeting, so an outcome is attached to what produced it rather than sitting in a column on its own.
Tracking is on the free plan. The reading across your applications — the part that turns a list into a finding — is Pro.
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Stages and Status
Four stages, matching how a search actually moves: applied, shortlisted, interviewing, offer. Each application sits at one of them, and moving it is a single action rather than a form.
What the funnel shows
- How many applications sit at each stage right now.
- Stage-to-stage conversion — the share that got from applied to shortlist, shortlist to interview, and so on.
- Which step loses the most, which is usually not the step people assume.
- Where a follow-up is overdue relative to when you last moved it.
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What Outcomes Teach
An application that goes nowhere is data. Enough of them and the pattern is readable: the Outcome Engine looks across your history for what the applications that progressed had in common, and where the ones that stalled stopped.
The kind of thing it surfaces
- The stage your search actually loses at, stated rather than guessed.
- Whether the roles you progress in differ from the roles you apply to most.
- Whether tailoring the résumé to a posting changed the outcome for you specifically.
None of that is knowable from a single application, which is why this is a tracker rather than a form. The value accrues with use.
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Connected to the Rest of Your Record
The tracker is not a silo. It reads the same career record as everything else, which is what allows an outcome to point at a cause.
- The résumé version you sent is attached to the application, so a pattern can point at a document.
- The target role behind an application is the same one your roadmap plans towards.
- What the tracker learns is available to the career coach when you ask what to change.
If the pattern says your résumé is the bottleneck, the ATS résumé scanner is where you find out why. If it says you are targeting the wrong roles, that is a question for the career coach.
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When the Numbers Mean Nothing
A conversion rate over six applications is not a conversion rate, it is a coincidence with a percent sign. ORQILO will not print a confident figure over a sample that cannot support one, and where there is not enough history the surface says so rather than showing a number that reads as a finding.
- The engine reads what you record. Applications you never entered are invisible to it.
- It does not read your email or your calendar, and does not submit anything on your behalf.
- Rejections often have no stated reason, and the product will not invent one.
- Early in a search, the honest answer is "not enough data yet" — and that is what you will see.
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Questions
What does a job application tracker do?
It holds every application you have sent in one place, with the stage each one has reached — applied, shortlisted, interviewing, offer. The point is not storage; it is being able to see the shape of your search rather than remembering it.
How is this better than a spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet records. This reads. Because ORQILO also holds the résumé you sent and the role you targeted, it can connect an outcome back to what produced it — which a spreadsheet cannot do without you doing the analysis yourself.
What is the Outcome Engine?
The part that looks across your applications for a pattern: which stage you lose people at, and what the applications that went further had in common. It needs enough applications to be meaningful, and it says so rather than reporting a percentage over four data points.
Does ORQILO apply to jobs for me?
No. It does not submit applications on your behalf and does not read your email. You record what you sent; it helps you understand what came back.
Is application tracking on the free plan?
Yes. Tracking applications and stages is available on Free. Application Intel and the Outcome Engine, which read the pattern across them, require Pro.