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The Insights view turns your applications into a few simple numbers and charts. Use it to spot where things stall, for example lots of applications but few replies, and to see whether tailoring your resume is paying off. To open it, go to Applications and select the Insights tab. Without filters, Insights counts all your applications, including closed ones. Search and Needs you narrow every chart and source total to the matching applications. Turn Needs you off and clear the search to return to the full account figures.
Insights appears once at least one application has reached Applied. Until then you see a short message instead.

Read the charts

Application Insights for the fictional persona, with pipeline and reply figures

Review your application history in Insights

Your own stages count as the standard stage they belong to (see Customizing application stages), so renaming or reordering them doesn’t change these numbers. The funnel and pipeline picture label each stage with the name you gave its default stage, such as Recruiter call for a renamed Screening.
  • How far applications get: For each stage from Applied to Offer, the number of applications that ever reached it. This uses each application’s stage history, so an application that reached Interview and was later closed still counts for Applied, Screening and Interview.
  • heard back: The share of sent applications that got a reply. A reply means the application moved on to Screening or later, or was closed as Not selected.
  • median to first reply: The typical number of days between sending an application and that first reply. It requires a known sending date and a separate, dated reply in Activity. An imported later stage with an unknown date still counts as a reply, but contributes no reply time. A real reply recorded on the sending day counts as zero days. Edit Activity dates when you know what happened.
  • Tailored vs. base resume: Compares applications sent with a resume made for that job (with Tailor a resume or Copy for a job…) against those sent with another resume. It only counts applications with a linked resume. With fewer than 10 of those, it reminds you the numbers are small.

The pipeline picture

Where your applications went draws your pipeline as a flow from Saved to Offer. The number above each bar is how many of your current, not-closed applications are at that stage or beyond, and the percentage under it is how many made it on from the stage before. The top line shows how many applications are active, with closed applications counted separately. The bars use the same stage colours as the board and list, on the page’s own surface, so the picture belongs to the app in both the light and dark theme. Stage labels are the names you gave your stages.
Application Insights for the fictional persona, with pipeline and reply figures

Review your application history in Insights

Select Export PNG to download the picture as pipeline-flow.png, a high-resolution image with a small Reactive Resume mark in the corner. The export resolves the stage colours and surface from the theme you are using, so the image stays readable whether you export in light or dark. It’s made for sharing, for example with a mentor or career coach.
The pipeline picture counts only applications that aren’t closed, while How far applications get includes closed ones. That’s why their numbers can differ.

Weekly activity and sources

Application Insights for the fictional persona, with pipeline and reply figures

Review your application history in Insights

  • Applications over time: How many applications you sent each week over the last 8 weeks, dated by their first recorded Applied date. Imports without a known sending date are left out of weekly totals. Applications that later closed still count; jobs that never reached Applied don’t.
  • Where applications come from: How many applications have each Source, such as LinkedIn or Referral. Fill in the source on each application to make this useful. Applications without a source aren’t shown.