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Compare Candidate’s application-centred workspace with organising a personal job search through a CRM model.
Start with the work you need to do
A CRM is designed around relationships and pipeline; an application tracker is designed around the candidate's process and preparation. The overlap is useful, but the centre of the workflow differs.
Candidate borrows useful next-action thinking without turning a personal search into sales operations.
A practical workflow
Use the following as a working sequence, then adapt it to the companies and conversations in front of you.
Keep the system workable
The right choice is the one that leaves your important context easy to find and maintain. Test it against a real search rather than an imagined feature list.
Candidate keeps this context together so a useful update after an application, conversation or exercise does not need to be copied across several tools.
A focused workspace