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How do you tell a ghosted application from an active one?

You mark Applied yourself and set a follow-up date. Quiet cards stay Applied until you close them. FluxResume does not auto-status from Gmail.

FluxResume Team · 3 min readJob Search

Mark Applied yourself after you submit, then set a follow-up date on the FluxResume Pipeline card. Quiet cards stay Applied until you close them. FluxResume does not auto-status from Gmail, and a missing reply is not a stage the board invents.

  • Stages are Bookmarked, Researching, Applying, Applied, Interviewing. Offer Stage and Close Job sit on the job detail status bar.
  • Applied means you submitted, with a date applied. Interviewing means someone booked time. Hope is not Interviewing.
  • Set the follow-up date by hand. No reminder fires from your inbox.
  • Close Job when you are done waiting. That is the honest "no reply" mark. Wishlist is not a column.
  • The yes-or-no tests: what each Job Tracker stage means.
  • Product: https://fluxresume.io/job-tracker/.

You mark the silence. The inbox does not.​

A ghosted application is an Applied card past the follow-up date with no screen on the calendar. The board cannot read Gmail and flip that for you. You open the card, keep Applied if you will wait, or Close Job if you will not.

FluxResume Pipeline is the candidate-side board. You drag the card. You type the date. People you can name live in Contacts. A guessed recruiter row is not a reply.

Huntr leftover is a long-standing tracker UI and Pro reporting. That leftover is not auto-status from email. FluxResume leftover is none of that older board: unlimited cards at $0. Official page: https://fluxresume.io/pricing/.

Same-day log after submit: what you do right after you apply. A pile of Applied with no dates is how to track 20+ job applications.

Common questions​

Does FluxResume flag no-reply from Gmail?​

No. There is no public tracker feature that reads your inbox and sets ghosted versus active. You mark Applied, set a follow-up, then Close Job when you stop waiting.

What stage is a company that never wrote back?​

Applied, until you close it. Do not move it to Interviewing because you hope they will write.

Is Wishlist the no-reply column?​

No. Wishlist is not a FluxResume column. Close Job is the status-bar action when you are done with the role.

Who moves the card after a rejection email?​

You do. Paste a note if you want the reason. Then Close Job.