Templates, checklists and worksheets
Practical tools you can copy and adapt: worksheets for gathering evidence, checklists before you submit, and short message templates. Each one explains when to use it and what to change.
Guides on templates, checklists and worksheets
Free job application tracker template for Excel and Sheets
Download Luceria's free job application tracker template for Excel or Sheets, with statuses, follow-up dates, document versions and a live overview.
Read: Free job application tracker template for Excel and SheetsThe final resume check before you press send
A copyable last-minute checklist for a tailored resume: the file, the facts, the fit with this job and the details recruiters notice first.
Read: The final resume check before you press sendHow to accept a job offer by email
What to confirm before you accept, a short acceptance email you can copy, and how to accept an offer that still depends on references or checks.
Read: How to accept a job offer by emailHow to decline a job offer and keep the relationship
Short decline emails for the usual reasons, what not to explain, and what to do if you need to withdraw after you have already accepted.
Read: How to decline a job offer and keep the relationshipHow to withdraw a job application politely
When to withdraw from a hiring process, who to tell, and short withdrawal emails for before and after an interview has been arranged.
Read: How to withdraw a job application politelyHow to ask for a reference and brief your referee
Who to ask, a request email you can copy, a one-page briefing note for your referee, and what employers are actually obliged to provide.
Read: How to ask for a reference and brief your refereeThank-you emails after an interview, with templates
When to send a thank-you note after an interview, what makes it worth reading, and templates for one-to-one, panel and informal interviews.
Read: Thank-you emails after an interview, with templatesHow to ask to reschedule an interview
How much notice to give, how to offer alternative times so the reply is easy, and templates for planned clashes and last-minute illness.
Read: How to ask to reschedule an interviewNetworking messages that people actually answer
Short message templates for contacting someone in your field, reconnecting with a former colleague, asking for an introduction and saying thank you.
Read: Networking messages that people actually answerHow to write a resignation letter
Check your notice terms first, then use a short resignation letter that states your last working day and offers a handover, with a filled-in example.
Read: How to write a resignation letterAn evidence bank: collect your best work examples
A worksheet for recording work examples as they happen, tagged by the skills employers ask about, so interview answers and statements are ready.
Read: An evidence bank: collect your best work examplesA worksheet for reading a job description properly
Sort every requirement in an advert into essential, desirable or implied, match it to your evidence and note the employer's own words before you tailor.
Read: A worksheet for reading a job description properlyCompare job offers with a weighted worksheet
Compare two or more offers on the whole package, weight what matters most to you, and see a worked example before you decide.
Read: Compare job offers with a weighted worksheetA one-page interview brief you can review in five minutes
A one-page layout for interview preparation: the role in a sentence, your three strongest examples, likely questions, your questions and the logistics.
Read: A one-page interview brief you can review in five minutesA weekly job search plan you can copy
A copyable weekly plan giving finding roles, applying, following up and preparing their own slots, with versions for full-time and part-time searching.
Read: A weekly job search plan you can copyA skills inventory worksheet
Prompts and a worksheet for listing skills from work, study and the rest of life, then sorting them by recent use and how well you can prove them.
Read: A skills inventory worksheetHow to reply to a recruiter's message
Check who is contacting you, then reply with one of four short templates: interested, interested but need details, not now, or no thanks.
Read: How to reply to a recruiter's messageA worksheet for explaining your career change
Build a short, believable explanation of your career change in three lengths, for networking, interviews and cover letters, with worked examples.
Read: A worksheet for explaining your career change
Other topics
- Resumes and cover letters
- ATS and application systems
- Applications, follow-ups and tracking
- Interviews and salary conversations
- Checking employers and job offers
- Career changes and transitions
- Working with a career coach
- Role-specific resume and interview guides
- For careers services and recruiters
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