Why LinkedIn is never automated
We block LinkedIn in three places for one reason: if LinkedIn restricts an account, it is yours. What we do there instead.
LinkedIn is on the refused list and stays there. No plan enables it.
The reason
The account at risk is not ours. When a site notices automated applying, it restricts the person doing it, and that person is you. Losing your LinkedIn account in the middle of a job search costs more than all the time automation would save.
Also, LinkedIn's rules do not allow it. We promise never to make false claims for you, so we will not quietly break someone else's rules for you either.
Where the block is enforced
Three places, which is deliberate.
- When we show how to apply. A LinkedIn job is marked as refused, with a reason, before you press anything.
- Before a tab opens. A queue of applications checks the same list and does not open LinkedIn.
- In the extension. It never runs on that site, so there is no badge, no score and no fill button there.
One list, checked three times, so the three places always agree.
What happens to a job you found there
The document is unaffected. Tailoring works on any posting you can read, so:
- Copy the description into the tailoring screen, or find the same role on the employer's own careers page.
- Tailor and approve as normal.
- Download your resume, or use the copy screen for your answers.
- Open the posting on that site and apply yourself, as a person.
That is one manual step at the end of a process that already did the slow part.
The profile audit is a different thing
There is a screen where you paste your own profile and read back what it says: what a reader sees first, what is missing, what reads as filler. It changes no text on that site and it never signs in there. You make the edits yourself.
The same reasoning elsewhere
We refuse Indeed because its rules do not allow automation. We leave out Workday, SuccessFactors, iCIMS and Taleo because applying there needs your own login from the employer, which nobody else can hold.
The full table is in which boards support which route.
Questions about this
Will this ever change?
It is a decision rather than a missing feature, and the risk it avoids is not ours to take on your behalf.
Can the extension read a LinkedIn job page for a score?
No. It never runs on that site, so no page is read and no badge appears there.
Is there a LinkedIn feature at all?
There is a profile audit you run yourself by pasting your profile, which reads what it says and hands the changes back to you to make.
What about other sites that forbid it?
Indeed forbids automated applying and is refused too, for the same kind of reason: their terms rather than our capability.
Apply there as a person
Tailor your resume here, then open the job on LinkedIn and apply yourself. The resume is the part that takes time.
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