Practical guide / Job Search & Interview Workbook 1.0
Keep the application, next conversation and follow-up together.
Connect vacancy references and document versions to interviews, follow-ups and offers. Review your entered stages and compare manually standardised annual amounts without reducing non-cash conditions to a score.
Your first useful result: Start with one connected record. Follow the first task
Track one application
Record vacancy reference, source, application date, current stage and CV version. Use your own stable application ID.
Linked records and input checks use the same stable IDs; review the labelled calculated cells.
Review: Keep the source record and the review together.
Prepare the next conversation
Link an interview or follow-up to the Application ID. Keep preparation notes and confirmed dates beside the action.
Linked records and input checks use the same stable IDs; review the labelled calculated cells.
Review: Keep the source record and the review together.
Compare like with like
Enter comparable annual offer amounts and separate non-cash conditions. Update the stage yourself after a real response.
Linked records and input checks use the same stable IDs; review the labelled calculated cells.
Review: Keep the source record and the review together.
Check the assumptions.
- Save a working copy first. Manual entry; no automatic sync or external connections.
- Fixed supplied capacities: extend formulas, tables and validations before adding more rows.
- Use one currency; currency labels do not convert money. No accounting or professional advice.
- Resolve input warnings before using summaries. Blank means unknown; enter 0 for a known zero.
- No job scraping, email sending, candidate scoring, application submission or employment advice.
- Offer amounts are manual comparable annual figures in the same currency; benefits and working conditions stay separate.
- Status counts describe your records, not a hiring probability or an assessment of your worth.
Keep a copy you can return to.
Keep the supplied clean and example files unchanged. Save your own working file with a useful name, such as job-search-workbook-2027-home.xlsx, and keep a dated backup before a large edit. A purchased ZIP is the blank source, not a backup of your entries.
If an input or formula is replaced
Undo the edit while it is still available, or return to a known good backup. If you need a fresh clean file, transfer only your records into its marked input cells and follow the setup guide again. Do not paste whole sheets over the supplied formulas, validations or reference lists. Check IDs, units, dates and linked results against the example before relying on the copy.
When the supplied rows are full
250 applications · 300 interviews · 400 follow-ups · 50 offers. Calculation ranges and validations have fixed capacities. A new row below a table does not prove that every linked result includes it.
For a separate period, project or volume, preserve the old workbook and start a named clean copy. If records must carry forward, record exactly which inputs you transfer, preserve their references and compare the opening and closing figures. Avoid copying historical activity as both an opening amount and a new movement. There is no automatic migration between files.
Inspect the workbook before you choose.
View its real sheets and a fictional calculation example.
Explore Job Search & Interview WorkbookWritten for version 1.0. Examples describe the supplied workflow; they are not customer results.