The Jobstead guide
How the garden grows.
Everything you need to know, in about three minutes.
One application, one plant.
Jobstead is a tracker first. Whatever you log about your job hunt, the garden turns into something you can see.
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Log it
Add the company, the role and the salary, by hand or with the Clipper. That earns you a Seed Pouch.
- 2
Open the pouch
Seeds come in four rarities. A tailored CV or cover letter adds a little luck.
- 3
Move it forward
Screening, interview, final round: every stage grows the plant and drops a bonus Seed Pouch.
- 4
Whatever the answer
An offer earns the Golden Apple. A no becomes compost that helps the next crop grow better.
It’s not only applications that count.
Everything you log in the tracker feeds the garden, including the awkward, brave, unglamorous parts of a job hunt. Some of them count extra.
Rejection and silence count as well. They aren’t the end of a plant. They’re what the next one grows from.
Water, harvest, compost, repeat.
Once things are planted, the garden is somewhere to spend a few quiet minutes between applications.
Water
Watering helps your plants grow. Rain barrels do it for you.
Harvest
Fully grown plants harvest into coins, and a little compost.
Rich soil
Compost makes a plot’s soil rich, which boosts every harvest from it.
Spend
Coins buy extra beds, rain barrels, beehives and decorations.
A few things from the shop
Little things for long searches.
Job hunts are rarely quick, so Jobstead has a few things for the slow weeks.
24 achievements
From “First Seed” to “Thick Skin” (log three rejections and keep going) and “Door Knocker” (show up to an office in person). Plus a crop collection to complete.
A streak and a weekly goal
Choose how many applications you’re aiming for each week. Jobstead keeps count, keeps your streak, and nudges you when an application has gone quiet.
Sound, if you want it
Inside the app: warm chords and soft piano, wind and birdsong by day, crickets at night. Each has its own volume slider.
It saves as you go
Every change autosaves, half-filled forms come back, and you can export a backup whenever you like, or bring your old applications in from a spreadsheet.
Good to know.
- The sky follows your clock
- Your garden glows at dusk, and the crickets come out at night.
- The Clipper saves the typing
- On LinkedIn, Indeed, Gradcracker, Bright Network and many careers pages, it reads the job for you. Add it to Chrome.
- Bring your spreadsheet
- Already tracking somewhere else? Import your old applications and they’ll be planted for you.
- One garden, every device
- Sign in with your email and your garden comes with you.
- Free, all of it
- Every tracker, the Clipper and every crop cost nothing. Your data syncs to your devices, and you can export it whenever you like.
- You stay in charge
- Jobstead doesn’t use AI and never applies for you. You log what happened, and the garden responds.
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That’s everything. Ready to plant something?
Your first application is a seed. Rufus will keep an eye on it.