The Campaigner
You're running a real campaign. The channel is what's capping it.
Your type
The Campaigner
You're running a real campaign. The channel is what's capping it.
What's actually happening
Volume is high, targeting is clear, and the applications are genuinely tailored — which means the obvious levers are already pulled. What's left isn't more effort, it's a different route in. Applications through a public posting compete with every other applicant through that posting; almost nothing else you do is that crowded.
This week
- 1
Pick five roles and find one person at each
A real message from you, about that specific role. Not a template, and nothing generated — those are transparent and they burn the channel for everyone.
- 2
Go back to the ones that went quiet
A single follow-up on a role you applied to two weeks ago costs nothing and lands on someone who has already seen your name.
- 3
Cut the bottom fifth
At your volume some applications are going out on autopilot. Drop the weakest and put that time into the two above.
Where to start
At your volume, one auto-reject you didn't spot is a lot of wasted applications — it finds them before you apply.
Is this you?
Eleven questions, about two minutes. You get your own score out of 100 alongside your type — and we'll show you how it compares to this one. No account, and your answers stay in your browser.
Find your typeThe other seven types
- The RewriterYou're doing more work per application than almost anyone. It's going into the thing that moves least.
- The Wide NetYou're doing the work. It's landing in the wrong places.
- The PerfectionistYour applications are good. There aren't enough of them to find out.
- The DrifterThe applications aren't the problem. Keeping hold of them is.
- The ResearcherYou've thought about this more than you've acted on it.
- The CloserIt's working. The risk now is what happens when these ones end.
- The Steady HandNothing here is broken. There just isn't enough of it yet.