Install the extension

Jobzeez has two halves. The app at app.jobzeez.com is where you answer questions about your career, set what you want, and read what a posting is worth to you. The extension is the part that reads the posting you are looking at on a job board and sends it to the app.

Without the extension the app still works, and nothing fills it. This page is how you add it.

You need an invitation first. The extension signs in to the same account as the app, so install it after you can sign in at app.jobzeez.com.

What it works in

Any browser built on Chromium. That is Chrome, Brave and Edge, and Brave is what it is developed against. It does not work in Firefox or Safari.

Getting it

Download the extension

It is not in the Chrome Web Store. You are loading it from a file yourself, the way a developer loads one they are working on. That means a few more steps than a store install, and it means your browser will show it as an unpacked extension. It also means you have the actual files and can read every line of what you are running.

Loading it

• Unzip the file. You get a folder named jobzeez-extension. Put it somewhere you will not delete by accident, like your Documents folder. The browser reads the extension from this folder every time it starts, so moving or deleting it later turns the extension off.
• Open your extensions page. Type chrome://extensions in the address bar. In Brave it is brave://extensions, and in Edge edge://extensions.
• Turn on Developer mode. It is a switch in the top right of that page.
• Press Load unpacked, which appears once Developer mode is on, and choose the jobzeez-extension folder you unzipped. Choose the folder itself, not the zip and not a file inside it.
• Pin it to your toolbar. Press the puzzle piece icon beside the address bar and then the pin beside Jobzeez, so the button is always there.

You should now see the Jobzeez button in your toolbar.

Signing in

Press the Jobzeez button and then Sign in. A window opens on our sign-in page, you sign in the same way you do for the app, and the window closes. The button should then say you are signed in.

It connects to app.jobzeez.com on its own. There is no address to type.

Using it

Open a job posting on a board the extension knows, and a small badge appears on the posting with what it is worth to you. Press the badge to read more, or to have the app take the posting in full.

It never applies to anything for you. The extension reads what is on the page and sends it to your own app. Submitting an application is something you do yourself, in your own browser, as yourself.

If something does not work

This is early software and you are among the first people outside the people who built it to run it. Some job boards are read better than others, and a board that changes its page can stop being read correctly until the map for it is updated.

The honest state of it: the app itself is solid, and the part that reads job boards is where the rough edges are. If a posting reads wrong, or a badge shows a score you cannot explain, that is worth telling us about. If a badge is slow to appear on a long list of search results, we already know.

Keeping it up to date

An unpacked extension does not update itself. When there is a new version, download it again, unzip it over the same folder, and press the reload arrow on the Jobzeez card on your extensions page.