Follow-up date calculator

Enter the day you sent your introduction email. The calculator shows when to send two follow-ups, 3 and 7 business days later, the schedule Applier uses. Weekends are skipped; public holidays aren't.

Introduction sent on

First follow-up:

Second follow-up:

How the dates are worked out

The calculator counts business days, Monday to Friday, starting the day after your introduction. Send it on a Thursday, for example, and the first follow-up falls on the next Tuesday and the second on the Monday after that. It doesn't know public holidays, so if a date lands on one, send on the next working day instead.

It works from the date alone, not the time. If the hiring manager is in another time zone, send during their working hours rather than yours.

Why 3 and 7 business days

There's no research-backed perfect gap. Three business days is long enough that you aren't nagging and short enough that your name is still fresh, and the second follow-up gives a busy hiring manager one more chance before you move on. After two follow-ups with no reply, stop. Our guide on when to follow up after a job application covers what to do when you applied without a contact, and what the data says about silence after applying.

What to send

Keep each follow-up shorter than the introduction, and send it as a reply in the same thread so the hiring manager sees your first note underneath. The hiring manager email templates include an introduction and both follow-ups, ready to personalize. To keep the dates for every application in one place, add them to the job application tracker template.

How Applier handles follow-ups

After each application, Applier emails people on the hiring team from your Gmail and schedules follow-ups on the same 3 and 7 business-day schedule, sent as replies in the same thread. In Review mode, you approve each introduction and follow-up before it's sent. How Applier works.