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Autofill for job applications

Fifty applications, the same two dozen fields. Save them once and let the extension put them back for you.

Applying for jobs is not one task, it is one task repeated. The cover letter is different every time. Your last name is not. Neither is your phone number, your street address, your notice period, or your answer to "are you legally authorized to work in the United States?"

Every applicant tracking system asks for the same block of identity data before it lets you near the interesting questions, and every one of them asks in a slightly different order with slightly different labels. That is the part worth automating.

The fields that come back every single time

Across Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS, Taleo and hand-rolled career pages, this is the recurring set:

• First name, last name, sometimes middle name or preferred name
• Email and phone
• Street address, city, state, ZIP, country
• LinkedIn URL, portfolio or personal site, sometimes GitHub
• Current employer and job title
• Work authorization: yes or no, plus "will you require sponsorship?"
• Earliest start date and salary expectation
• "How did you hear about this role?" as a dropdown
• Voluntary EEO questions: gender, race, veteran status, disability status

None of it is hard. It is just slow, and it is slow in a way that makes you apply to fewer jobs than you meant to.

How the extension handles it

1. Save a profile once. Name, contact details, address, work details, plus any custom fields you want, like your LinkedIn URL or years of experience.
2. Open the application. The extension notices the form and offers to fill it. Nothing happens until you say yes.
3. Click fill. Every field it can match gets filled at once, and an undo button sits there in case something landed in the wrong place.

The matching is done by a language model rather than a fixed list of field names, which is why it copes with labels it has never seen before. It receives a compact description of the page's fields — labels, input types, the options inside each dropdown — along with the profile values you saved, and returns the value for each field.

What gets filled on an application form

Password fields, file inputs and search boxes are filtered out in the browser before anything is sent anywhere, so your resume file and your account password stay entirely out of it. You attach the resume yourself, as always.

Setting up a profile built for job hunting

The default fields cover the identity block: full name, first, middle and last name, email, phone, company, job title, address lines, city, state, ZIP, country, birthday, username and website. Fill in the ones that apply and leave the rest blank.

The part people skip, and shouldn't, is custom fields. Add a label and a value, and they become available to the matcher like any other field. The ones that earn their keep on applications:

• LinkedIn — the full URL, not your handle
• GitHub or portfolio — whichever a recruiter will actually open
• Years of experience — asked constantly, as a number or a dropdown range
• Work authorization — for example "US citizen, no sponsorship required"
• Notice period — "two weeks" or "available immediately"
• Desired salary — a number or a range you're willing to type into a required field
• Referral source — "LinkedIn" or "company website", the dropdown you answer every time

Keep more than one profile

Profiles are separate and you pick the active one from the toolbar popup. Two patterns that work well:

• By address. One with your home address for applications, one with a different shipping address for everything else.
• By role. If you're applying to two kinds of job with different titles, salary expectations and summaries, keep a profile for each rather than editing one back and forth.

The applicant tracking systems

Each system is repetitive in its own way. The specifics are worth reading before you start a batch:

• Workday autofill

  A separate account at every employer, multi-step forms, and a resume parser that mangles your job titles.

• Greenhouse & Lever autofill

  Short single-page forms, often embedded in the company's own careers page inside an iframe.

Read the page before you submit

Autofill is a typing shortcut, not a proofreader. Two habits worth keeping:

• Scan the filled fields. Filled values are visible on the page, so a wrong dropdown is easy to spot. Undo puts everything back if a fill went sideways.
• Answer the role-specific questions yourself. "Why this company" is not a field you should ever automate, and the extension will not invent an answer for it.

Questions

• Can an extension really fill a whole application?

  It fills the standard form controls on the page, which is most of an application: text inputs, textareas, native dropdowns, checkboxes and radio buttons. It can't attach your resume file, and forms built entirely out of custom widgets rather than standard form elements are where it stops.

• Does it write my cover letter?

  No. It fills fields with information you saved and doesn't invent answers. If you keep a short standard paragraph in a custom field, it can drop that paragraph into a matching textarea — but nothing is written for you.

• Is it safe to save my address and phone number in an extension?

  The profile lives in your browser's extension storage on your own device, and you can delete it or uninstall the extension whenever you want. When you trigger a fill, the form's fields and the profile values go to our backend and our AI provider to compute the fill and are not used for anything else. Passwords, file uploads and search boxes never leave your browser. Details are in the privacy policy.

• Will recruiters know I used autofill?

  The extension types into the page the way you would, and the employer receives an ordinary submitted form. What matters is that the answers are right, which is why it's worth reading the page before you submit.