LinkedIn is often useful for discovering roles and people; a company career page may be the actual submission destination. The right workflow preserves both pieces without treating either route as universally best.
A practical workflow
Use the following as a working sequence, then adapt it to the companies and conversations in front of you.
- Compare the source, form and follow-up path
- Use the company's stated application instructions
- Track the resulting process consistently after submission
Keep the system workable
Keep one clear record for the opportunity, its current stage, the people involved and the next action. That gives you enough structure to return to the search without adding ceremony.
Candidate keeps this context together so a useful update after an application, conversation or exercise does not need to be copied across several tools.