Job hunting can be a painful and difficult experience at the best of times. Sending in your application to a huge number of different companies and businesses only to get turned down can be demoralizing, not to mention time-consuming and difficult to keep track of.
Fortunately, there are a wide variety of tools available online that can help ease these pain points, such as Chrome extensions that work in your browser t make your life easier. Here are seven of the best.
1. LinkedIn Extension
First up on this list, we have a little Chrome extension that can make a big impact if you regularly use LinkedIn. LinkedIn Extension allows you to easily see when you have a new LinkedIn notification.
All you have to do is install and pin the extension onto your extension bar, and then whenever you receive a new notification on LinkedIn, the button will pop up with a little number so that you know that you’re being mentioned.
It’s a small thing, but responding is one of the top ways looking to grow your presence on LinkedIn, and growing your presence on LinkedIn might just help you land that job. This Chrome extension makes it easier than ever.
2. Huntr: Job Search Tracker
Next up on this list comes Huntr: Job Search Tracker. This Chrome extension is perfect for anyone who’s trying to find a new job at the moment and is getting bogged down in all their applications.
Huntr aims to alleviate this problem by working to collect, track, and manage your job applications from across the web. What’s great is that you can do this from within your browser, and it works on just about any website.
All you have to do is save the job opportunity using the Huntr extension, and you’ll be able to come back and access it later. Huntr also comes with a ton of extra useful features like automatic web clipping, a Kanban job tracker, note-taking capabilities, and more.
3. Briskine: Email templates for Gmail
When you’re searching for a new job, a lot of what you’re doing is sending and replying to emails. Briskine is a Chrome extension that aims to make this easier than ever.
Briskine is a service that allows you to create templates for your emails. You can input these templates in any email just by hitting the tab after writing a single letter or word, which is all entirely customizable.
If you’re creating cover letters, you can set up a template dedicated to just that, and once you find a job having this extension can be a huge boon to quickly responding to emails.
4. Writer
The next addition to this list is Writer, a Chrome extension that aims to help make writing easier thanks to generative AI. At its core, Writer behaves as a spell and grammar checker. It checks what you’ve written for any mistakes, and lets you know how they could be improved.
Where Writer differs, however, is that it also helps you to write clearer, more concisely, and simply better than you would otherwise. Writer’s AI helps to encourage healthy communication by flagging insensitive, negative, or passive-aggressive language.
It also features a rewrite function which allows you to instantly reword what you’ve written to be more clear, concise, fluent, or detailed. It's worth noting that Writer does require a premium plan to use, but there is a 14-day free trial that you can use to see if you like it or not.
5. Discoverly
If you’re looking for a way to get more complete information from a wide range of different social media sites, then Discoverly might just be the Chrome extension that you’ve been looking for.
Discoverly aims to give you more complete social contact info from websites such as Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. This information is just one of many ways how to streamline your online job search, and it is super useful if you land a job that needs this sort of information.
What’s more, is that Discoverly also helps to have the information you get from these sources interact nicely with one another. For example, Discoverly allows you to see what mutual Facebook friends you have with people you see on LinkedIn.
6. Visualping
Visualping is an interesting Chrome extension that maybe wasn’t made with job searching in mind, but is nonetheless a very useful tool to have in your pocket.
The concept behind Visualping is simple. This Chrome extension monitors any page that you set it to, and checks it at a frequency that you can set. Whenever anything changes on this webpage, you’ll receive a ping to an email of your choosing telling you that the information has changed.
In practice, this lets you set up custom notifications for job listings, telling you when the webpage has changed. You can choose between how big the change to the webpage has to be in order to receive the ping, which is super handy for making sure that you’re receiving useful information.
7. Hunter - Email Finder Extension
Finally, we have Hunter – Email Finder Extension. This Chrome extension does exactly what you might imagine it does; it helps you find the email addresses of people you see online.
When looking for a job, this can be a useful way to get more information about the person you’re sending your resume to in order to better customize what’s in it. You can also use this to make sure that you’re sending your application to the right person.
If you find a job in lead-based work, this can be super useful there as well. Hunter works well to help you find emails, and has a lot of options for customization, which is super handy as well.
Make Finding a Job Easy
As you can see, there are a wide variety of different Chrome extensions that can help with every aspect of your job search. From finding a job, to sending out the perfect email, there’s a Chrome extension no matter your needs.
With the internet, there are now so many different ways to find jobs online that there were never before. All you have to do is know how and where to look.