Searching for a job in todays market is an often complex process.

Without the appropriate organizational strategies, hunting for a job can quickly become a complicated mess.

Combing thousands of job results across multiple websites and emailing hundreds of resumes can quickly become confusing.

A long table with a laptop and other various office supplies on it.

Maintaining an organized job search is essential for job seekers looking to land a new career opportunity.

Fortunately, Excel comes with several features that can help manage your hunt and keep your applications in order.

Sending the wrong resume to an opening could mean failing to get an interview.

A set of templates for different pieces of a basic cover letter arranged in Excel.

For each position to which you are applying, add it to an ongoing list in an Excel spreadsheet.

Nesting multiple SUBSTITUTE functions into a single formula allows you to quickly and easily create form communications.

Applying extra filters to those results can help you make the most out of every software.

A set of paragraphs made out of data in Excel that are combined together into a standard cover letter.

Excels functions make it easy to apply advanced filtering to a list of potential job results.

The quickest way to get that list is using aweb-scraping Google Chrome extensionor tool.

There are plenty of great options available online that are quick to set up and user-friendly.

The options for the XML Import Wizard in Excel.

Once youve pulled down a dataset, youll need to import it into Excel.

Excel includes a built-in XML importer that can make pulling in large scraped datasets simple.

Use the import functionality made available after you’veunlocked this hidden Developer tabon the ribbon.

A data table in Excel containing the results of an XML import.

As youre importing, youll be prompted to set up your new dataset.

For the best results, make a run at normalize your data as much as possible during the import.

Being able to automate the process is essential.

A set of job search results with an automatically generated link at the end of each to send out an introductory email.

Generating form communication is a great first step.

Your best option, however, is to send emails out directly from Excel.

There are two different ways to accomplish this in Excel.

The more complex way isusing VBA to create a macro that can send emails from Excel.

The simplest way to do this, however, is using Excels built-in HYPERLINK function.

HYPERLINK allows users to create links that will open their default mail program, and prepopulate a message.

All that will be left for you to do will be to tap the send button.