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Install the JobRats extension 🐭
It takes 2 minutes and you only do it once. After that it updates on its own.
- 💻 A computer with Chrome (Edge or Brave work too).
- 🔑 Your JobRats account open in that Chrome.
- 📱 It doesn't work on your phone: save this page and open it on your computer.
1Add to Chrome
Open JobRats in the Chrome Web Store.
See JobRats in the Chrome Web StoreTap the blue «Add to Chrome» button.
JobRats: applies to jobs for youjobrats.com · ProductivityAdd to ChromeDrawing: this is how the store page looks. Chrome asks if you want to add it. Tap «Add extension».
It can read and change your data on linkedin.com and jobrats.comAdd «JobRats»?CancelAdd extensionThat permission is so it can search for jobs and apply for you on job sites. It never reads your passwords. Done. Chrome tells you, at the top right, that JobRats was added.
2Pin the icon
This way your rats are always handy, at the top right of Chrome.
Tap the puzzle piece 🧩 next to the address bar.
Next to JobRats, tap the pin 📌.
JobRats📌3Connect it to your account
Open Extension settings in the same Chrome and tap «🐭 Connect with one click». That's it.
When you tap the JobRats icon in the Chrome toolbar, you see this:
JobRats✅ Ready: your rats search every weekdayWe'll let you know when something needs you.
No button? Connect it with a code
In Extension settings, tap «Get a code to connect». The code lasts 10 minutes and works only once.
Tap the JobRats icon in the Chrome toolbar, paste the code and tap «Connect».
For LinkedIn, stay logged in on that same Chrome. JobRats never asks for your password.
4What it does on its own, and what it doesn't
- ✅It searches for recent Easy Apply jobs while Chrome is open.
- ✅It searches job sites from your Chrome. This keeps going even if you turn off the LinkedIn search.
- ✅It only saves the jobs that fit you in JobRats, and lets you know.
- 🚫It never applies unless you choose. Only to the jobs you tap with «🐭 Apply with my rats»: it gets them ready and you send them with «Send».
- 🚫It never asks for passwords, never writes messages and never changes your profile.
- ⏸️If LinkedIn asks to slow down, your rats pause on their own until tomorrow.
With the computer off or Chrome closed, your rats don't apply or search LinkedIn. They pick up again when you open it. Jobs from job sites still reach you.
5How to turn off the LinkedIn search
Go to Extension settings.
Uncheck «Automatic LinkedIn search» and tap «Save».
The search on other job sites keeps going. To stop the extension completely, disconnect it or remove it from Chrome.
6Updates
It updates on its own from the Chrome Web Store: you don't have to do anything. Your settings and your connection stay the same.
If JobRats tells you it's out of date, close Chrome completely and open it again: Chrome brings it up to date.
Did you install it by hand before?
Switch to the store version, which updates on its own: open chrome://extensions, tap «Remove» on the old JobRats, add the store one (step 1) and connect it again (step 3). Your jobs, your queue and your answers stay in JobRats. Don't keep both: your rats would work twice.
7If something goes wrong
I don't see the «Add to Chrome» button
Open it in Chrome (or Edge or Brave) on a computer. On a phone or in Safari, the store doesn't let you add extensions.
It says «Remove from Chrome» instead of «Add»
You already have it. Go on to step 2 to pin the icon.
«Connect with one click» doesn't show up
Make sure you're in the same Chrome where you added the extension, and reload the page. If it still doesn't show up, connect it with the code: it works the same.
The code doesn't work
It lasts 10 minutes and works once. Get a new one in Extension settings and paste all of it, including «RJ-».
I don't see the JobRats icon in the toolbar
Tap the puzzle piece 🧩 and pin it with the pin 📌.
A job is in «Waiting on you» with a button
The card says what's missing and the button fixes it: «Connect the extension», «Update the extension», «Open LinkedIn and sign in» or «Try again». Once it's fixed, your rats carry on by themselves. If it had no Easy Apply, it moves to «On company sites» and you apply on the company's website.
The extension says «Paused until tomorrow»
LinkedIn asked to slow down. It's to protect your account. The next day your rats keep going on their own.
No new jobs are coming in
Your rats search on their own every weekday, and also as soon as you change what you're looking for. If nothing comes in, check what you're looking for (role, location and pay) in «Get your rats ready», or ask the Support Rat in the chat. Some jobs only come in with Chrome open and the extension connected.
Still not working? Write to us in Support.