Find Where Your Job Search Is Actually Leaking
Most job-search advice assumes the problem is volume. Usually it's conversion at one specific stage. This takes your counts — applied, responded, interviewed, offered — computes the rate at each step, marks the stage where the biggest proportion drops out, and tells you how many applications one offer costs at your current rates. Local only; nothing leaves the tab.
- Funnel
- Conversion rate at each stage of your own search
- local
- What it replaces
- 'Apply to more jobs' as a diagnosis
- $0.00
- Input
- Four counts and the weeks elapsed
- no card
- Output
- The worst leak and applications per offer
- recomputed
What you pay otherwise
| Route | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Career coach | Someone reading the same four numbers | $120+/session |
| Doubling applications | More of whatever is already failing | hours weekly |
| Rewriting every CV | Fixing a stage that isn't the problem | an evening |
| This page | The stage that's actually broken | $0 |
The workflow
Count only what you can verify
Applications you actually submitted, responses you actually got, interviews you actually sat, offers you actually received. Estimates here produce a confident-looking funnel built on nothing.
Read the conversion rates, not the counts
Twenty interviews sounds like a lot until it's 40% of your responses and 2% of your applications. The rate between two stages tells you what's broken; the count alone doesn't.
Fix the worst leak before doing anything else
A low response rate is a targeting or CV problem. A low interview-to-offer rate is an interview problem. They need opposite remedies, and improving the wrong one wastes weeks.
Use applications-per-offer to plan the search
If one offer costs you 60 applications, then a three-month search needs about five a week. That's a schedule you can commit to, rather than a vague intention to apply more.
Worked example
Sample: 96 applications over 10 weeks Responded 11 (11.5% of applications) Interviewed 6 (54.5% of responses) Offered 1 (16.7% of interviews) Worst leak applications → responses Per offer 96 applications, 9.6 a week Uploaded nothing — computed in the tab
Numbers above are sample data produced by the tool's own pre-loaded example, run in the browser — not averages or measured benchmarks.
What breaks this
Estimating the counts produces a confident funnel built on nothing. Reading counts instead of rates hides which stage is failing. Fixing the wrong stage — rewriting a CV when the problem is interview performance — is the most expensive mistake here.
Try it now
Ninety-six applications with an 11.5% response rate are loaded. Raise the response count to 30 and watch the worst-leak flag move to the interview stage.
Open the funnel →Go deeper: the printable funnel
The funnel is free forever. The $4 one-time tier adds:
- Printable funnel — the conversion rates on one sheet — estimate: ~8 min saved rebuilding it each week.
- Saved searches shelf — keep up to 6 snapshots in this browser — estimate: ~10 min saved tracking progress.
- Weekly target sheet — applications-per-week written out as a schedule — estimate: ~12 min saved planning.