One board, one truth

Every application, one stage each, and the employer's status shown in your words.

There were three different status vocabularies in one product: the candidate's board, the employer's pipeline, and a third on saved roles, sharing exactly one word between them. Every gap between them surfaced as a lie on somebody's screen. My Pipeline reconciles them into one set of stages with rules about what a card is allowed to do.

What is My Pipeline on insiderOne?

My Pipeline is the candidate's application board. Five stages you move through in order, wishlist, applied, screening, interview and offer, plus two outcomes, rejected and withdrawn, reachable from anywhere and final. When an employer updates their side, their status is translated into your stage and shown in plain words, so the two boards never disagree.

How it works

Named mechanisms, not adjectives.

Every one of these is implemented and can be pointed at. On a product whose pitch is that claims get checked, the description of it cannot be the one place that is not.

Outcomes are not steps

Rejected used to sit after offer in the order, so an offer card's forward button read move to rejected, and a rejected card offered to promote itself to an offer. Outcomes are now reachable from any stage and nothing follows them.

The employer's status, translated

An employer's seven-value status is mapped to your stage by a tested table, not a hand-written map in the middle of a server function, and the employer's own wording is shown beside it.

Rules about what a card can do

Which moves are allowed from which stage is logic, tested without a browser or a database, so the board cannot offer a move that makes no sense.

What it gets you

In practice.

  • See every application and exactly where it stands.
  • When the employer moves, your board moves, in your vocabulary.
  • No impossible buttons.
Compared

Against Spreadsheets and job-tracker apps.

insiderOneSpreadsheets and job-tracker apps
Employer updatesTranslated into your stage automaticallyYou type them in
Stages and outcomesSeparated, so rejected is never the step after offerOne flat list
Connected to proofAn application carries your verified skills to the employerA row in a sheet

Questions, answered.

Does the employer see my board?

No. They see their own pipeline. What you see is their status translated into your stage, with their wording shown beside it.

Can I move a card backwards?

Through the active stages, yes. Outcomes are final: a rejected or withdrawn card does not move forward again.