Here Are 20+ Free Chrome Extensions For Recruiters To Use In 2021 & Beyond!
Ever since we have discovered Chrome Extensions, we have been a genuine fan. They are extremely useful and often comes in handy. Thus, Recruit CRM has curated a list of 20 such Chrome Extensions for recruiters, of course, you won’t be needing all of them but feel free to choose the one you like.
It’s time to do some serious recruiting in 2021 and onwards.
1. Recruit CRM Sourcing Extension
Source candidates & clients from anywhere with the handy Recruit CRM extension. Save time by adding candidates & prospective clients directly to Recruit CRM from LinkedIn and other online sources. You need to create an account with Recruit CRM (Recruitment Agency Software) in order to use it.
Pricing: Free
2. Grammarly
Recruiters are often seen writing multiple times every day, I mean every hour! Grammarly will make sure all those are professional by helping you fix typos and spelling mistakes. Also, we have some free job description templates for you to get started, here.
Pricing: Free
3. Boomerang For Gmail
Talking about emails, now that you are sending a professional email you also want to make sure that it is opened and the other party responds to you. This where Boomerang will come into the play!
Boomerang uses AI to rate your messages on respond-ability; predicting the likelihood that your recipient will answer your email. The extension also allows you to schedule emails as per your convenience.
Pricing: Free
4. Hunter
Hunter helps you find an email address from the domain name, this is how it works in short. Click on the source to discover the email address, and witness its wonders!
Pricing: Free
5. FullContact
FullContact helps you with additional data on your candidates, like his/her social media accounts, address and all the information this app can find on the internet.
This is helpful for recruiters are into checking social media profiles of candidates. There are many uses of this extension, it’s up to you how you use it!
Pricing: Free
6. Calendly
Calendly is a powerful tool to schedule meetings. Just share a simple link and your client can schedule a meeting with you. You can choose your time slots.
Pricing: The app is free to get started.
7. Sideways Dictionary
Sideways Dictionary explains all the tech-savvy words in simple languages. Recruiters often come across tech words like API, 2 Factor Authentication while reading job descriptions.
Don’t worry about these words anymore now that you have Sideways Dictionary at your disposal.
Pricing: Free
8. Prophet
Prophet helps you discover more about a candidate via its social media profile. Apart from basic information, Prophet goes one step further and helps you find additional details about a specific candidate.
Pricing: Prophet is free to get started.
9. Buffer
Buffer let’s you post on multiple social media platforms at once. Recruiters can use to post about their positions and source candidates into their CRM/ATS easily.
Pricing: Free
10. Feedly
Did you come across a website but you are too busy to read it right now, well, you can use this extension to save it and read later. Feedly also helps you manage and organize all the interesting articles you come across daily.
Pricing: Feedly is free!
11. SimilarWeb
If you have your website, this can come in handy & help you with marketing stuff like SEO, traffic demographics. Recruiters who are into recruitment marketing will love this chrome plugin.
Pricing: Free!
12. StayFocused
StayFocusd will help you put a time limit on addictive websites like reddit, facebook so that you can actually work instead of watching cat videos.
How this works?
You select a website, let’s say for example facebook.com and then you have to allocate some time to facebook.com, let’s say you want to surf 15 mins a day. You put 15 mins and now you can access Facebook for 15 mins only. Once you have exhausted 15 mins, facebook will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
Pricing: Free
13. LastPass
If you are still storing passwords in some notepad, then this is for you. LastPass is a password manager which helps you manage all of your passwords, bank accounts and address. This is extremely helpful for recruiters to manage their passwords in one place.
Pricing: LastPass comes with free trial for limited period.
14. MightySourcer
MightySourcer free chrome extension lets you find phone numbers and email addresses of your candidates quickly. You can then send them an email and invite them to apply to your job in seconds. Time is money, this should be the unofficial motto of the Mighty Source.
Pricing: Free
15. AmazingHiring
I often came across recruiters who checks digital footprint of her candidates or I would say social media footprint and I do agree with her, In 2019 it is necessary and will help you out hire good quality people.
This is where AmazingHiring comes in, the extension lets you track your candidate’s social media footprint.
16. One Tab
This extension is a technical one. When you are using Google Chrome and browsing through the internet, you end opening multiple tabs that eventually hog up your memory, making your computer slow.
Whenever you open multiple tabs in Google Chrome, you end up wasting a lot of RAM which makes your laptop/computer extremely slow. This extension takes care of that mess and let’s you have more RAM to work with.
Pricing: Free
17. LinkedIn Search Tool
This tool will search for people or your candidates, client on Linkedin instantly. It’s so simple to use and saves your time of going to linkedin.com and typing the name.
Just select the name and right click, choose Search Linkedin for “selected-name” and boom, you get a new tab with linkedin and search box filled with your query.
This is a must-have for every agency recruiter out there!
Pricing: Free
18. Data Miner
Use this extension to extract details like email, name from a webpage. This is useful for recruiters while sourcing candidates for a position to fill.
Pricing: This extension is free.
19. Dux-Soup For LinkedIn
Sourcing candidates on Linkedin? This tool records all the profile visits you do. Click one button and send invitation to them.
This tool has features like auto profile visit, auto-invite (visited profile). Another great tool a recruiter should try.
Pricing: Free to get started!
20. Lusha
Lusha is already popular among recruiters, specially used for extracting B2B information like emails and phone numbers of your candidates or clients.
Pricing: Lusha is also free to get started.
21. ContactOut
ContactOut is a simple browser extension which is an email finder tool that is able to instantly provide personal email addresses, phone numbers, and social media links of any person in their profile in LinkedIn.
Pricing: Free
22. Norbert
Norbert makes it easy to get in touch with candidates so you can find the best fit for the job. Thanks to a vast database of B2B contacts and companies, your next hire is only a couple of clicks away. If candidates have an email address, Norbert will find them.
Pricing: Free
Don’t forget to let Recruit CRM know in the comment section below which are the other Chrome Extensions you’re using in your day-to-day recruitment activities?
Originally published at https://recruitcrm.io.
