A great solution to tracking your job applications

Being unemployed is a fulltime job.  A structured day identifying your next career move as well as having time to be an active networker, learn new skills and go for the occasional run or game of golf can be undermined by keeping track of every contact, CV and covering letter – in short having an effective job application system.

I was really pleased to stumble onto www.becomed.com.  The author came up with the idea for Becomed.com while on honeymoon in Hawaii with his wife. He was unemployed, had already created a few web applications by that point, and wanted to keep himself busy during his job search.

What he realised about being unemployed, was that he spent a significant portion of his day applying for jobs, and that the system he was using to keep track wasn't good enough.  It was too passive, and involved too much manual manipulation of information. He figured that if he created a site that could automate a lot of what he was doing, it would give him something positive to do as well as assist him with his application tracking.

He started working on the site the day after he got back from his honymoon – Monday, March 23, 2009.  A couple of days later he had opened up Becomed.com to the public as a beta web application.  What a great story to tell when he went for job interviews!  And great for job seekers worldwide.

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