How to export your LinkedIn application history

LinkedIn will show you the jobs you have applied to. What it will not give you is a way to get that list out: you cannot copy it, filter it, or ask it how many applications you sent last month. What you see on screen is a view, not a record.

The data is yours, though. Through LinkedIn's own data archive request you can download every Easy Apply application you have ever sent as a single CSV file. This piece covers how to get that file, what is inside it, and — more importantly — what is not.

First, the on-screen list and where it runs out

Your applications live here:

• Desktop: Jobs in the top nav → "My Jobs" in the left rail → Applied
• Mobile: the Jobs tab → "My Jobs" under the search bar → Applied

That list stops being useful at three points:

1. Easy Apply only. If you followed an "Apply on company website" link, LinkedIn does not count it as an application at all. For most people a substantial share of their applications is invisible for exactly this reason.
2. No outcomes. The list only says you applied. It will not tell you who replied, who rejected you, or which application has been silent for six weeks.
3. It is not permanent. Rows can disappear when a posting is taken down or something changes on your account. Plenty of people search for "my LinkedIn applications are gone" and this is usually what happened.

The archive request does not fix the first two, but it fixes the third for good: the file is yours, independent of anything LinkedIn does next.

Requesting your data archive

This is LinkedIn's official route, and it is free:

1. Your profile photo, top right → Settings & Privacy
2. Data Privacy in the left rail
3. Under "How LinkedIn uses your data", click Get a copy of your data
4. You get two choices here: "Download larger data archive" (everything), or picking specific data categories one by one.
5. Submit the request and confirm your password.

How long you wait depends on which you picked. In LinkedIn's own words: choose a specific data type and the email arrives within minutes; choose the larger archive and it arrives within 24 hours. The download link in that email is valid for 72 hours — miss it and you have to start over, so download it the day you see it.

Practical note: job applications come in the larger archive. Rather than fetching the quick package first and then filing a second request, ask for the larger archive up front and come back tomorrow.

What is actually in the archive

What arrives is a .zip. Open it and you will find dozens of CSVs — connections, messages, reactions, ad preferences. The one you want is Job Applications.csv in the Jobs folder. If you have applied a lot, LinkedIn may split it into Job Applications_1.csv, Job Applications_2.csv and so on; they all carry the same kind of data and you want all of them.

One row per application, typically carrying:

• the company you applied to
• the job title
• the application date
• a link to the posting
• the name of the CV file you applied with
• your answers to any screening questions

LinkedIn changes these column names from time to time, so if you are going to feed the file to a tool, pick one that does not depend on an exact header spelling.

What is missing is the important part: the outcome. Which application was rejected, which turned into an interview, which never got a reply — none of that is in the file, because LinkedIn does not know either. That information is in your inbox.

You have the file. Now what?

Three options, in ascending order of effort:

Open it in Excel and leave it there. At minimum you have a backup. Add a couple of columns — status, date of last activity — and it becomes something you can maintain by hand; there is a ready-made template here.

Build a proper sheet. Calculate waiting times with a formula, see which applications have been silent for how long. This works perfectly well up to thirty or forty applications.

Import it into a tracker. e-kariyerim takes the .zip as it comes: it finds the Job Applications files inside, recognises the columns from either English or Turkish headers, and drops duplicates if you applied to the same posting twice. Step-by-step walkthrough in the import page of the Help Center.

Three things that commonly go wrong

"I unzipped it, uploaded the CSV, and nothing happened." Most tools want the whole archive rather than a single CSV, precisely because the file may have been split into parts. Hand over the .zip as it is.

"There is no Jobs folder." You picked the small package. Job applications come in the larger archive; repeat the request with "Download larger data archive".

"Half my applications are missing." They probably are not missing: applications you made on a company's own site were never recorded by LinkedIn in the first place. This file is not your complete application history — it is the complete history of the applications you made through LinkedIn. The only way to close that gap is to record applications as you send them.

What about other job boards?

Most local job boards work the same way: you can see your applications on screen, and there is no bulk export. So if you apply through more than one platform, the LinkedIn archive rescues your history — but if you want everything from here on in one place, you have to capture applications at the moment you send them. There is no way to reconstruct them later.