☑️ Mark external positions as applied
Project: 💼 Application Management Type: 🚀 Feature User: 💁🏻♀️ People
Key changes
- Mark positions you found on cord but applied to via the company’s career site as ‘Applied’
- Positions you mark as applied to will no longer clog up your homepage or search results
- See all the positions you’ve applied to on the ‘Applied’ page.
Why?
Previously, there was no way to mark an external position as applied to. This led to several issues:
- Tracking difficulty: no place to track all the positions you’ve applied to.
- Positions clogging up search: positions that you’d already applied to continued appearing in your search results and homepage.
- Lack of insights: internally, we had no data on how external positions perform on cord.
Building the option to mark an external position as applied to sets the foundation for the application management board, which will enable users to track all of their applications across all stages, in one place.
What?
Users can mark external positions as applied to. Any positions marked as applied, will appear on the ‘Applied’ page on the dropdown menu.
Applying to external positions:
- When you click to apply to an external position, a prompt, “Applied to this position?” will appear after 3-4 seconds.
- There are two options you can choose from:
- No, I haven’t applied
- Yes, mark as applied
- You can also tick to not show this pop up again, in case you find the pop up annoying!
- You can mark any position as applied simply from the top right of the position too.
Marking as applied:
- If you select “Yes, mark as applied”, this is indicated on the top right of the position and on the bottom panel too.
- Any positions marked as applied will no longer appear in search results or on the Discover page.
- These positions will be moved to the ‘Applied’ page on the dropdown menu.
Applied page:
- Both external positions marked as applied and any direct or agency positions you’ve messaged will appear on this page.
- This page is temporary and will be replaced by the ‘Applied’ column on the application management board MVP
How?
Jiyeon built the front end of this feature, while David worked on the back end. Thank you both!
What’s next?
This is the first feature in the application management project. The next (big!) feature is an application management board, where users can manage all of their applications in one place. Once the MVP of the board is live, the ‘applied’ column in the board will replace the ‘Applied’ page.