Job seeking is no longer as easy as it used to be. With so many diverse job platforms (e.g., Indeed, Handshake, Monster), the same jobs could be posted on multiple websites or only one, leading to difficulty in tracking which jobs you have already applied to and which you have not. Additionally, job descriptions are often lengthy, and to review the details of each one to see if your skill set matches their desired qualifications is a task that takes vast amounts of time—and can often lead to your discovering (at the end of reading the entire job post), that you actually do not have the desired (and required) qualifications. And thus the solution to make your job search (and life) easier: extensions.
Why do you need extensions?
Extensions can do one of two things: one, help you as you apply for jobs and two, help you find the right jobs for you.
Downloading a simple extension means making your job search effective, efficient and faster. With the millions of job postings, you want to find the ones that you are qualified for and increase your likelihood of earning that coveted interview to make your first impression. By using extensions to automate the onerous parts of your job search, you are able to focus on only those jobs that truly deserve your attention as you job hunt.
For a non-US resident seeking jobs in the United States, job seeking becomes even more difficult due to sponsorship issues, and thus, an extension that helps to streamline this process becomes even more imperative to help manage your time.
Our 5 favorite extensions for job seekers:
Why?
- This extension helps you see how many people have left a company in the past year, their status (FT or contract) and their salary range.
- You are provided with an understanding of how a company retains their staff, which is most often indicative of employee satisfaction rates; if you are entertaining multiple offers, you will want to make sure you choose the right fit for your needs.
Why?
- This helps job seekers to create an email signature that includes important information such as their social media profiles (e.g., Linkedin) for recruiters to see, helping applicants to develop their ‘brand’ and easily refers hiring managers to their personal websites and social media profiles.
For an international job seeker looking for positions in the U.S., FrogHire.ai by far!
Why?
- This extension allows you to immediately filter out the jobs that do NOT offer work sponsorship (CPT/OPT/H1B). If the company does not offer work sponsorship, they are not going to entertain your application at all, so there is no need to see their job post — save the time!
- This extension will also review your resume and see how your qualifications match to their job requirements, giving you a sense of what you need to modify on your resume, focus on in your professional development, and how perfectly (or imperfectly) you match to this job opening.
- You are able to create a dashboard to track all the positions you have applied for, so there is no time wasted in reapplying to a job.
Why?
- The extension that helps you track your emails so you can quickly search
through newer and old emails to find specific ones.
- You can go back in time to find emails from years ago, from when you perhaps applied to a job but was rejected due to lack of qualifications but are now qualified for, given the experience you have gained since applying many moons ago.
Why?
- The extension describes itself as the tool that helps Gmail, Facebook, Twitter
and LinkedIn “play nice” with each other. It can help you easily see affiliated networks you share, along with assisting in finding someone’s direct email address.
- From Facebook profiles you can access LinkedIn info along with mutual connections; from LinkedIn profiles you will be able to see shared Facebook friends (hello, networking in the virtual realm!) and on Twitter profiles you can see LinkedIn information along with shared connections from both Facebook and LinkedIn.
