What is it?
This is a free online application for those of you who are looking for work.
What does it do?
It helps you keep track of who you sent your resume to and what job posting you responded to.
Why would you want to do that?
If you are only applying to 10-20 jobs, you don’t need this application, just use EXCEL™ to keep track of who and what you responded to. On the other hand, if you have been looking or will be looking for over a number of weeks or months, then you need this, because EXCEL won’t cut it!
What is the Use Case?
It's really simply, you routinely look for interesting job postings on a number of the job sites. When you see a posting that you like, you stop looking and generate the resume and cover letter to submit. Then you continue looking on the current site or one of the other sites. Eventually, you find another interesting job posting that you would like to submit, but you ran out of time today, so you write the link down and plan to return to it tomorrow. VitaeWho allows you to look through the job sites, save those positions that are interesting to you. When you have finished looking and saving all the interesting job postings, you can then prioritize the interesting positions by their Close Date and concentrate only on the most interesting positions and those that require immediate attention. Prioritizing based on Close Date gives you time to think about how you want to approach those important positions. It also enables you to be efficient with your time and ensures that you submit to the most interesting positions first!
What does it track?
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Job title, description
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Job number that is assigned by the advertising company. Typically their internal job reference number.
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URL where the position was placed. This can be any URL, from Craigslist, or from their web site.
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Posting Date – Date position was posted.
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Close Date – Date applications for position closes.
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Response Date – Date you submitted your resume.
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Resume – a copy of the resume that accompanied your application. Can be Word or PDF format.
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Cover Letter - a copy of the cover letter that accompanied your application. Can be Word of PDF format.
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Status – We have the following status categories for to use:
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Under Consideration – If you submit an application, we assume that you are considered for the position.
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Interviewing – if they called you back for an interview.
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Position Cancelled – they changed their mind about hiring for that position.
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Not Selected – what you don’t want to hear.
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App Submitted – means you submitted the application, this is sort of like the under consideration category. We will discuss this below.
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App Backlog – as you go through the job sites and Craigslist, you will find positions that interest you. You can’t be preparing and submitting resumes/applications for each as you go, so you use this to identify the position and URL, so that you can come back to it later. The idea is to sort the backlog by Close Date and submit at the last minute! This enables you to work on a super resume and cover, put it down work on something else, come back and refine it as the close date approaches.
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Not submitted – the position looked good initially, but for whatever reason, it isn’t worth the effort of submitting for this position now.
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Company Name – So you can keep track of who you applied to.
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Location – City/State where the position was offered.
What does it cost?
It's free for anyone to track who, when and how often they send resumes and cover letters to job prospects.
What do I need to run VitaeWho?
VitaeWho is a SilverLight 4 Application that runs from your Internet browser. So far, we have tested it on Windows Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome. From what we can tell, SilverLight 4 drivers are not available for Linux yet.
Why is it free?
Because I needed to get up to speed on SilverLight 4 business development and wanted something that might be useful in the real world. This is my first fully distributed cross browser application. The ISP web server is in Houston, the mail servers are on the East Coast and the MySql Database servers are in Australia. It uses SilverLight Domain Services for everything.
Is it safe?
We require a minimum seven(7) character password with at least one special character. We have implemented Captcha validation to prevent robots from DoS attacks that would inundate the server. We have tightened the security on our databases. At the end of the day, it probably doesn't need to be much safer than that. We do not ask for any personal information (other than your email). Yes, we have access to your profile and resumes, but you are probably sending them out to anyone who might be interested anyway, . . .
Give it a try and tell your fiends about it!
If the application opens in a new window and you actually want it in a new tab on your browser, HOLD the CTRL key down before clicking on the link. Alternatively if you are running I.E.7 or 8, look at this link http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1164/internet-explorer-7-open-new-windows-in-tabs-in-ie7/ to change the behavior permanently!.