Job Search
1 min readSave a shortlist before you start applying
Edwuma Team
Ten saved jobs you would accept beat thirty applications you sent because the tab was open.
Signing in lets you save jobs on Edwuma and return to them from the dashboard. The point of the list is not to collect badges. It is to separate roles you will finish from roles you only found interesting for a minute.
A shortlist has a rule
Save a job only if you can say yes to three things: you can do most of the work already, you can work in the place they named, and you would reply if they called this week.
- Cap the list at about ten. Remove one when you add one.
- Apply to the closest match first, while the listing is still new.
- Delete roles that have gone quiet or that you would decline.
Your dashboard also shows views, searches, and apply clicks. Use that as a check on effort. A week of searching with no applications usually means the filters are too wide, or the CV is not ready.