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Use the chase panel

Four thresholds decide when a row is worth a nudge, where those numbers come from, and why nothing moves stage on its own.

The chase panel answers one question: which of these is worth a follow-up today.

The four thresholds

The numbers come from published research on how long employers actually take, and each one is cited in the source at the point it is defined rather than being a house rule somebody invented.

What the panel does

• Lists up to eight rows, with the reason each one appeared and the suggested action.
• Repeats the same line on the card itself, so the board and the panel cannot disagree.
• Leaves the stage alone. Nothing is moved for you.

What it will not do

It will not send anything. There is no automated follow-up email, and there is no template that goes out on your behalf. A chase that reads as machine-written undoes the application it is chasing.

Closed rows are never chased. Rejected, withdrawn and no response are finished, and a board that nags about a rejection from March is a board people stop opening.

How to work it

1. Open the tracker once a week, not once a day.
2. Read the panel top to bottom. Eight is a session; eighty is a scroll.
3. For each one, decide: chase, close, or leave.
4. Move anything past forty-five days to no response, so your reply rate describes your search rather than your archive.
5. Update the stage on anything that moved. The counters are only as honest as the stages.

Writing the chase itself

Short, and about them. Name the role, the date you applied, and one line of why you are still a fit. There is a screen for writing to a recruiter under Applying in the rail if you want a draft to edit, and the cold email allowance that goes with it is described in plans, credits and what each tier unlocks.

What a recruiter can see from their side, which is less than most people assume, is in what recruiters actually see.