{"id":947,"date":"2025-07-22T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/home\/?p=947"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T22:41:42","slug":"jobseekers-automate-the-most-annoying-part-of-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/home\/2025\/07\/22\/jobseekers-automate-the-most-annoying-part-of-your-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobseekers, Automate the Most Annoying Part of Your Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style>\n    body {<br \/>\n      font-family: sans-serif;<br \/>\n      max-width: 800px;<br \/>\n      margin: auto;<br \/>\n      line-height: 1.6;<br \/>\n      padding: 20px;<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n    img {<br \/>\n      max-width: 100%;<br \/>\n      border: 1px solid #ccc;<br \/>\n      margin: 20px 0;<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n    pre {<br \/>\n      background: #f5f5f5;<br \/>\n      padding: 10px;<br \/>\n      overflow-x: auto;<br \/>\n    }<br \/>\n  <\/style>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>\ud83d\udccb Jobseekers, Automate the Most Annoying Part of Your Day<\/h1>\n<p>As a developer constantly applying for jobs, I often receive emails from recruiters asking me to fill out the same table over and over again. Details like my name, contact number, LinkedIn, work authorization\u2014every single time.<\/p>\n<p>It gets frustrating. You&#8217;re already tailoring your resume, prepping for interviews, managing job boards&#8230; and then there&#8217;s this table copy-paste chore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So I built something simple to help us all:<\/strong> a Chrome Extension that auto-fills recruiter tables with your saved data. One click and the form is done.<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83c\udfaf Problem<\/h2>\n<p>This is the kind of table recruiters embed in emails:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/table-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/table-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/table-1024x763.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/table-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alerainfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/table.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You copy-paste the same info. Every. Single. Time.<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83d\udca1 Solution<\/h2>\n<p>I created a Chrome Extension called <strong>Yahoo Table Autofiller<\/strong>. It adds a &#8220;\ud83d\udcdd Fill Selected Table&#8221; button to any page. When you click it, it fills the selected table by matching the labels to your data.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"fill-selected-table-button.png\" alt=\"Fill Selected Table Button Screenshot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The matching happens smartly using normalized label comparison:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n  \"Full legal Name:\" matches \"full legal name\"\n  \"Work Authorization\" matches \"work authorization\"\n  <\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Here\u2019s a working example of it filling the table live in Yahoo Mail:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83d\udd27 How It Works<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>You install the extension (manually or via zip from GitHub)<\/li>\n<li>Right-click a recruiter table and inspect it<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;\ud83d\udcdd Fill Selected Table&#8221; button<\/li>\n<li>Watch your details magically populate<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\ud83d\udce6 Get It on GitHub<\/h2>\n<p>I wanted to give something back to the community\u2014and also just send this to recruiters when they ask for my GitHub \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/palanmahesh\/recruiter-table-autofiller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u27a1\ufe0f View on GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\ud83d\ude4f Final Thoughts<\/h2>\n<p>If you\u2019re tired of typing the same information repeatedly, try this out. It\u2019s simple, effective, and 100% open source.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know your feedback or submit improvements via GitHub!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Screenshot &nbsp; &nbsp; \ud83d\udccb Jobseekers, Automate the Most Annoying Part of Your Day As a developer constantly applying for jobs, I often receive emails from recruiters asking me to fill out the same table over and over again. Details like my name, contact number, LinkedIn, work authorization\u2014every single time. It gets frustrating. 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