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How-to Guide: Job Tracking with Huntr

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Did you accept the email invite to

Huntr⁠

If you can’t find one, please check your spam folder. If you still can’t find this email or if you’ve accidentally deleted it,

contact our Customer Experience team⁠

The job search can be a demanding and daunting process. On top of finessing each application form, cover letter, and resume, you need to be able to manage and keep track of all the different applications you’ve submitted. Without the right tool, this can all get pretty overwhelming.

Here’s the good news: we’ve set you up with an easy-to-use tool called

Huntr⁠

for keeping your job search organized. This web app enables you to log jobs you’re interested in, see them in a personalized board, and track the progress of each application—from being on your wishlist, right through to receiving an offer. Using this online platform will make the process of finding a job easier for both you and your career coach.

At this point, you should have received an email inviting you to Huntr. Once you’ve accepted that invite and created your account, you can start adding and tracking job applications.

Let’s take a quick look at the main features you’ll want to use:

Huntr Chrome Extension: While browsing for jobs on sites like LinkedIn or Indeed, the

Huntr Chrome extension⁠

can save job listings and extract information from job postings with as little as one click.

Job Board: Organized like a Kanban board, this helps you visualize the state of your job search and see how many applications, interviews, or offers you’ve received in one simple view.

Job Portal: Besides helping you track your job search, Huntr also features a place for the staff at Designlab to share entry-level job opportunities with you. We update this weekly!

Now that you know what to look for, let’s dig into how to use these three features.

Adding Job Opportunities

There are two ways to add jobs that interest you to your Job Board: the Huntr Chrome Extension and manually adding them. The far easier method is using the Chrome extension.

Huntr Chrome Extension

If you use Chrome, you can

install this extension to rapidly add jobs⁠

you find on different job boards and company websites.

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A Chrome browser window featuring the Huntr: Job Search Tracker extension webpage.

Once installed, you can begin searching on sites like

LinkedIn⁠

Indeed⁠

, or

Glassdoor⁠

, and adding job opportunities to your Huntr board. Below, we’ve added a job opening at Home Depot that was posted on Indeed to the wishlist section of our board.

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A demonstration of how to use the Huntr Chrome extension to save a job posting on Indeed to your Huntr job board.

Even though Huntr’s Chrome extension works on many sites, there will be cases where automatic job extraction won't work. For these sites, click on the Huntr extension icon on the Chrome toolbar to display the Save Job form, then highlight the information from the page. As you highlight the information, Huntr will automatically fill in the fields, so you don't have to spend time copying and pasting the information into the form.

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A demonstration of how to use the Huntr Chrome extension by highlighting company name, position title, location and job description.

Manually Adding Job Opportunities

If you don’t use Chrome or if, for some reason, the extension doesn’t work, you can easily add jobs manually to your board. First, click on the purple + Create button in the top right corner of your board. Then, select Job.

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Screenshot of the + Create button and dropdown on the Huntr job board.

From here, you’ll want to add the company name and job title, select where in your board you’d like this job saved, and click Save Job. After the job has been created, you'll be able to save more details about the opportunity.

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Screenshot of the ‘Add Job’ modal in Huntr.

Using Your Job Board

Your Job Board is the primary tool you’ll want to use for staying organized and accountable during your job search. This interface is designed in the fashion of a Kanban board. A Kanban board is an agile project management tool designed to help you visualize work using cards and columns. Huntr has repurposed this concept for job seekers' personal use.

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The Huntr job board with each job opportunity saved as an individual card across multiple stages in the application process.

The columns are labeled with the stages most job application processes will follow. Many of these stages are self-explanatory, but here is what they all mean just in case:

Wishlist: job opportunities you’ve saved, but haven’t applied to yet

Applied: jobs that you’ve submitted an application for

Networking: to improve your chances of landing the job, you’ve connected with hiring managers through LinkedIn or have reached out to others at the company you’ve applied to for an informational meeting or screening call

Screening Call: you’ve partaken in a brief job interview to determine whether you're a qualified applicant

Interview 1 and Interview 2: you’ve been invited and have participated in formal interviews with the hiring manager and future collaborators

Follow-Up: an email was sent to the hiring manager and interviewers thanking them and inquiring about next steps

Offer Received: a moment for celebration, you got a formal job offer in writing!

Offer Accepted: you’ve accepted a job offer

Archive: where to save info about jobs you applied for, but didn’t progress through the interview process

Every job opportunity you save is submitted to this board as a card. It's up to you to move it to the next stage once you’ve applied, interviewed, etc. To move a card to a new stage, just click and drag it onto the desired column. Alternatively, you can click into each card, hover over the Move button in the top right, and select the column you want to send the job to. While on the job's detail modal, you can review the compiled job information, log activities, and take notes.

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A job posting opened in Huntr displaying multiple information fields and additional options.

Logging activities for each job helps you track what needs to be done, like submitting an application or preparing for an interview. You might also consider using the documents feature to aid in your organization of the many custom cover letters and resumes you’ll be creating.

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The ‘Log Activity’ modal opened in Huntr revealing fields one has to fill in: title, category, dates, notes, and check-box.

Beyond the board itself, there are a few features at the top that might come in handy. Many users have found the Map helpful for seeing where companies they are applying to are located. You can gain further insight into your job hunt by viewing key statistics in Metrics. The other features here like Activities, Contacts, and Documents compile all the information that is located within the job cards.

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A screenshot of the Huntr job board highlighting the Activities, Contacts, Documents, Map, and Metrics features.

Discovering Opportunities in the Job Portal

As of 2022, Designlab has been flooding the Job Portal with hundreds of opportunities we’ve found with employers. You’ll find a link to the Job Portal feature in the left-hand menu. Here, you will see all the opportunities we shared that you can click into to get more details and save to your personal board.

Huntr also has a job section dedicated to UX design⁠

that they update monthly.

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Designlab’s Job Portal in Huntr.

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A job posting sourced by Designlab in the Job Portal section of Huntr.

Career Coaches and Huntr

Your career coach is able to view your Huntr board and can help you make progress with those opportunities!

We strongly urge you to keep Huntr up-to-date, so that your career coach will know exactly where you’re at outside of your sessions. What do we mean by up-to-date? Each card is in its appropriate column, the job information fields are filled in, and you’ve documented activities/tasks you’ve completed. That’s it!

Updating Huntr on a weekly basis also keeps you qualified for

UXA’s Tuition Reimbursement Policy⁠

. In addition to keeping Huntr current, students must apply to at least 5 jobs per week (at least 3 in your target work city, up to 2 remote), starting in Week 3 of Career Services. Not setting up your Huntr board or not sharing it with your career coach may result in your withdrawal from Career Services.

Since your coaching sessions are thirty minutes instead of an hour, your time with them is precious. This means it's critical you are prepared for each and every session. Apart from keeping your job board up-to-date and having it pulled open in a browser tab, ready to share, you’ll want to come up with ideas and questions related to moving job opportunities forward… How long do you think I have to submit an application? How should I go about this application question? What should I expect in a screener interview? Should I follow up again with the recruiter? Do you think I can negotiate this aspect of the offer?

The combination of Huntr and your career coach is sure to accelerate your job acquisition process. Don’t let these awesome resources go to waste!

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If you have more questions about how to use Huntr, please check out their
`Job Seeker Guide`⁠
. Happy hunting!

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