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<head><title>Jobs Filterer for LinkedIn Help</title></head>
<body>
<div style="font-size: 150%;">
<h2>What Jobs Filterer for LinkedIn does and how to use it</h2>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong>The author of this extension is not
affiliated with LinkedIn, and this extension is not provided or
supported by LinkedIn. I'm just a random guy trying to make life
easier for LinkedIn users.</p>
<p>(See extension changelog <a href="changes.html">here</a>.)</p>
<p>LinkedIn’s “recommended jobs” and job search
functionality are pretty good at finding jobs you might be
interested in, but unfortunately they’re pretty bad at
finding <em>only</em> jobs you might be interested in, i.e., they
show you many jobs you don’t care about. Furthermore, although
there are buttons you can click to supposedly tell LinkedIn not
to show you a particular job again, it frequently ignores
this.</p>
<p>This extension’s purpose is to allow you to improve the
quality of these lists of jobs by filtering out jobs you
don’t want to see based on either jobs whose
“don’t show me this” button you’ve
clicked or on regular-expression (regexp) matches on the job
title, company name, or location.</p>
<p>The simplest way to use this extension is to tell LinkedIn not
to show you jobs by clicking on their buttons intended for that
purpose. LinkedIn won’t necessarily obey that, but this
extension will: it’ll add the job’s title, company
name, and location to the “Specific jobs” list in
the extension's <a href="options.html">options page</a> and save
the options, and it’ll be filtered out automatically from
then on. You may want to revisit the
<a href="options.html">options page</a> periodically and
clear out old jobs from the list so that it doesn’t get
too long and slow things down. If you make a mistake and filter
out a job you actually want to keep seeing, you can remove it
from the list and click Save to undo the filtering.</p>
<p>In addition to being able to click on LinkedIn's button for
dismissing a job (the eye with a slash through it), this
extension adds a second button next to it — a white funnel
on a grey background, i.e., the extension's icon — which
you can click on to tell the extension that you never want to
see that job <em>without telling LinkedIn that</em>. Why would
you want to do that? If a job is a relatively good fit for you
but you still don't want to see it, e.g., because it's
not <em>quite</em> right or because you've already applied to
it, then you don't want to tell LinkedIn not to show it to you
anymore, because that might train LinkedIn's algorithm to show
you fewer jobs like that, which you don't want. Instead, just
tell this extension to hide it whenever it comes up, so LinkedIn
can keep popping it into your recommendations and search results
but you'll never see it.</p>
<p>In addition to filtering out specific jobs by clicking the
buttons, you can filter jobs by regexp match. To do that, enter
the regexp you want to filter with, one per line, in the text
boxes on the <a href="options.html">options page</a>, then click
Save. You can optionally enclose your regexp in slashes if you
want to specify the case-insensitive flag on it; in other words,
the regexp “abc” won't match “Abc”, but
“/abc/i” will.</p>
<p>Documenting how to write regexps is beyond the
scope of this help
text; <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions"
target="_blank">here</a>
is one of the many online tutorials about this.</p>
<p>Normally this extension simulates clicking the buttons that
tell LinkedIn not to show you jobs again, but you still
see the jobs, greyed out, after it has done so. If you would like
to hide filtered jobs completely, check the “Hide filtered
jobs completely” checkbox (and remember to click the
“Save” button).</p>
<p>Note that the options are saved in synchronized storage, so if
you have sync turned on, the options are synchronized
across all synced browser profiles.</p>
<h2>Example workflow</h2>
<p>Note that you can open the <a href="options.html">options
page</a> by clicking on the extension's icon. You'll probably
want to pin the extension icon to your toolbar for easy
access.</p>
<p>A common workflow for this extension is to keep
the <a href="options.html">options page</a> open in one browser
Window while you have LinkedIn open in another window next to
it. While reviewing a page of jobs, each time you come across
one that could have been filtered out, update your filters
appropriate in the extension options and Save the updated
filters.</p>
<h2><a name="support">Credits</a></h2>
<p>The author of this extension is not affiliated with LinkedIn,
and this extension is not provided or supported by LinkedIn. I'm
just a random guy trying to make life easier for LinkedIn
users.</p>
<p>This extension was written by Jonathan Kamens. If you find this
extension useful, you
can <a href="https://patreon.com/jikseclecticofferings">support
me on Patreon</a> or buy me a coffee
via <a href="https://paypal.me/JonathanKamens">PayPal</a>
or <a href="https://venmo.com/Jonathan-Kamens">Venmo</a>.</p>
<p>The source code for this extension lives
<a href="https://github.com/jikamens/jobs-filterer-for-linkedin"
target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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