Chrome extensions are how you become superior, and you need that kind of energy when you’re job hunting so we have rounded up the best ones that will make your life a little easier.

1. Discoverly

You may have heard this before, but your best bet to landing an interview is through a referral and that’s where Discoverly will come in handy. This chrome extension will help you figure whether you have mutual friends/followers on Facebook and Twitter. All you have to do is install the extension, head to LinkedIn, click on their profile, find mutuals and ask your friend to introduce you!

2. Huntr

You're going to use Seek, Indeed, LinkedIn and other recruitment websites and honestly, I struggled to keep track of what job I applied for now which website. I wish I knew about Huntr because it helps you collect, track and manage all your job applications in one place. You can even add notes, track the progress and make a wishlist to the job you want to apply for later, or which need some modification to your CV.

3. Unlimited Email Tracker

Getting ghosted on email is so annoying, and I’m going to be real with you, it will happen a lot so you might want to be prepared for that. However, this chrome extension will help play an Uno-reverse card on them. It shows you who opened your email and whether they clicked on the link you sent. It also helps you set follow-up reminders so once you know they’ve opened your email you can send them another email to get their attention. Nothing like assertiveness and proactiveness to get a recruiters attention!

4. Grammarly

There’s nothing like a spelling error to ruin your entire effort of building your CV, sending an introductory email or personalising a cover letter. Grammarly will help you avoid exactly that. You don’t want a your-you’re to ruin your chances at getting your dream job.

5. JobSeer

Jobseer helps you make then the job search process less stressful by identifying, highlighting, and prioritizing the most relevant positions based on skills and qualifications. How you may ask? Well, it uses AI to match keywords and relevant skills which can be super helpful especially in the sea of job ads that you just can’t filter out with the options on the site.

6. Session Manager

This extension will allow you to pause any webpage, which is handy when you’re filling out an application form but you need to suddenly leave but you don’t want to lose all the work you’ve put in because of an automatic session time out or being logged out.

7. Salary Seeker

In case the job ad doesn’t show the salary range for the role, you can use this extension to see that hidden information and obviously that gives you an upper hand in case you need to negotiate salary with them in the later stages.

8. Form Hero

Form Hero is a more advanced and sophisticated version of Chrome’s autofill. When job applications ask you those same boring questions about why you want the job or what are your strengths and weaknesses this extension can help you autofill those answers and save you heaps of time and patience.

9. Jobalytics

This chrome extension will be your Yoda to getting past the automated applicant tracking systems by guiding you to use the perfect keywords and tailor your resume to the job listing you are applying for and make you come up as the top candidate for the job. Its AI will scan the job description and highlight for you which one of the important keywords your resume is missing so you can add them to your resume, god-sent if you ask me.

10. Streak CRM for Gmail

Best organisational tool for your inbox! When you’re going back and forth with tons of recruiters about opportunities there is a risk of losing some important info or missing a time-sensitive mail, but this extension will help you from falling victim to chaos. The pipeline feature helps you categorise your email based on what step of the recruitment process you’re on, and also help time and figure who you need to follow up with for the best result!

We know job-hunting can be a stressful process, so hopefully, these extensions will ease a little of that tension for you!

10 Best Chrome Extensions To Help You With Job Hunting