You Can't Fix a Job Search You Can't See

Most people who are job hunting have no idea whether their search is working. They know how many applications they've sent, roughly. They know they haven't heard back. Beyond that, it's guesswork. So the only lever they can pull is volume: send more.

I built GetJobzi because I was that person. Applying into a void, with no feedback loop, no signal about what was working, and no way to tell the difference between "my CV is wrong" and "the market is just slow this month."

So the first thing we built wasn't a feature. It was a mirror.

Four numbers, one mirror

Job Search Performance: 25 target jobs per week. That's the pace you've set for yourself.

Applications Performance: one application in the last seven days, thirty in the last ninety. Twenty-nine of those went out in time.

Application Success: zero advertiser engagement out of one, one enquiry.

Expected Time to Get Hired: Not enough data yet.

Why "not enough data yet" is the most important card

It would have been easy to fake a number there. Run some regression on the data we had, produce "expected: 11 weeks," make the dashboard look complete. But we had one application. One. Any estimate from that would be invented, and an invented number in a job search is worse than no number at all.

So it says: keep applying to build a reliable estimate. The tool tells you when it doesn't know. That's the principle the whole product is built on. If we won't guess about your search, we're certainly not going to guess about an employer.

Volume vs engagement

This view separates two numbers people always conflate: how much you're applying and how well it's working.

Someone sending thirty applications and getting nothing thinks their CV is broken. Someone sending two and getting one reply thinks they've cracked it. Neither of them is right, because neither of them is measuring both things at once.

You need volume and engagement. Without both, you can't tell whether the problem is your targeting, your CV, or the market. And you can't fix a search you can't see.

If you've job hunted recently: at any point, did you actually know if it was working? Or were you just going on feel?