Share ideas for new features

[voidbydefault]

Feel free to share ideas for new features and questions to be added. You may submit most repetitive questions from your unprepared_questions.csv as candidates for consideration. Thanks.

[dgscharan]

For jobs that are in us, they require few more questions. I have seen sometimes bot is replying "No" by default. it would be great if the bot can handle these conditions.

Are you comfortable relocating ?
Are you comfortable commuting ?
Are you willing to relocate?
Are you comfortable to work on-site ?
Are your comfortable to work in "AnY City" area ?
Do you require visa Sponsorship?
what is your current visa status?

All the questions related to job location and visa can either be a radio button or drop-down in most of applications.

The below 3 questions the bot always gets wrong which are generally from a drop-down menu.
Are you a veteran ? (Ans : No )
Veteran status ? (Ans : No, I have not served in military)
Disability status ? (Ans : No, I dont have any disability )

[voidbydefault]

Are you comfortable relocating ?
Are you comfortable commuting ?
Are you willing to relocate?
Are you comfortable to work on-site ?
Are your comfortable to work in "AnY City" area ?
Do you require visa Sponsorship?
What is your current visa status?
Are you a veteran ? (Ans : No )
Veteran status ? (Ans : No, I have not served in military)
Disability status ? (Ans : No, I dont have any disability )

Did you setup your profile in config.yaml properly? "Bot always gets wrong" is not entirely true, Responses of these questions is available for configuration in config.yaml; try to find commute: True/False, requireVisa: True/False, legallyAuthorized: True/False, vetran:, disability:.

[dgscharan]

Hi @voidbydefault,

Yes i have configured all the options in the config files, however even then in some cases the options were wrongly filled. I have submitted like 500 application and observed a few options were wrong even when config files had corrected answers.
Example of config :
driversLicence: True
#Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B visa status)? (yes/no checkbox)
#This is relative to the location and your citizenship applying above, and same with legallyAuthorized.
requireVisa: True
#Are you legally authorized to work in COUNTRY? (yes/no checkbox)
legallyAuthorized: True
#We must fill this position urgently. Can you start immediately? (yes/no checkbox)
urgentFill: True
#Are you comfortable commuting to this job's location? (yes/no checkbox)
commute: True
#Are you comfortable working in a remote environment? (yes/no checkbox)
remote: False
#Are you comfortable taking a drug in accordance with local/state laws? (yes/no checkbox)
drugTest: True
#Are you willing to complete an assessment? (yes/no checkbox)
assessment: True

here is an example of the rejection mail I received a couple of hours back.

[voidbydefault]

One question though, how can you be legally authorized to work when you need a visa? Legally authorized = candidate already has a work permit.

#This is relative to the location and your citizenship applying above, and same with legallyAuthorized.
requireVisa: True
#Are you legally authorized to work in COUNTRY? (yes/no checkbox)
legallyAuthorized: True

Is it possible for you to record screen while the bot is running to observe its behavior for analysis?

Edit: Work permit as in immigration.

[dgscharan]

sure, I will try to record some samples and send them over to you.
Students and many immigrants in the US have a temporary work visa for 3 years where they can work without any sponsorship. The sponsorship question is asked if the current candidates require a visa in the future. So the most common question will be
"Do you now or in the future require sponsorship"?

[voidbydefault]

I had a look at that veteran thing, although the code was fine but I had a typo in config.yaml where I wrote it as "vetran" hence it was not reading the user's selected response. Furthermore, I also added securityClearance in config.yaml for some reason it remained stuck in my testing bench instead of being pushed as an update for public use.

Once you have time, compare your local config.yaml with the latest one available now and only copy/paste changes (which should be two only).

[dgscharan]

sure, Thanks. Will test it and let you know if that works fine. @voidbydefault

[Nicotomassetti]

It would be a good idea when you are unable to apply because you cannot fill in the "Additional Questions". Discard that application and move on to the next one.

Another solution would be to be able to manually add those "Additional questions" with the appropriate answer.

Greetings and good work

[voidbydefault]

Bot is designed to do that. However, some employers add one-off weird questions that make bot go in an endless loop. I need to figure out move-next after nth try or add a timer to counter this recent issue. Currently, my make shift solution is to note trouble making employers and add them to blacklist in config.yaml so at least bot continues to do its job on all others.

[dgscharan]

I recently saw that LinkedIn has an option to select jobs that received less than 10 applications by clicking the checkbox under the all filter menu. is it possible to add that feature to the code ? Thanks!

[voidbydefault]

That's a good one. I can cover this in next update. Thanks for good idea.

[voidbydefault]

@dgscharan . This is done. You may download new linkedineasyapply.py and main.py and replace with the current ones on your PC. Also, to control the filter of "less than 10 applicants", I have made one minor change in config.yaml so add below lines manually in your local config.yaml (instead of downloading new config.yaml and redoing the whole file:

# Set to True if you wish to search for jobs marked as "under 10 applicants".
lessthanTenApplicants: True

You may have a look at lines 11 to 14 in new config.yaml to have an idea.

[Casplat]

Hello There!

First, thank you for taking the time to not only modify and maintain this bot but also introducing PowerBi as a way to visualize the results. Can you add functionality such that if we are already logged into linkedin from firefox or chrome, that the bot can check to determine if we are and start applying from there instead of entering credentials in the config?

Thanks

[voidbydefault]

Hi, and many thanks for suggesting the idea.

It's not possible to use an already-logged-in browser (i.e., your current browser session) because of the way Selenium webdriver works. I could experiment by forcing the new session launched by the webdriver to read cookies of your current session (to bypass login every time), but it would require every single user to change the path to his unique Chrome directory (which usually goes like c:\users\xyz\) so it would read cookies from their current session. This will not be so straight forward for everyone; hence, I would get hundreds of complaints that the bot is not working (and I am telling this from experience after getting many complaints that the bot is not working, eventually boiling down to the typos and other errors in config.yaml committed by users themselves). I will see if there is a way to make this relative so webdriver finds user's unique path itself using Windows environment variables, but I am not too hopeful (frankly).

[Casplat]

I understand. In doing some research of these bots, I saw one of them utilizing a path to the profile or entering credentials, However, usage of it wasn't as straightforward to use as the one you have here. No worries, if you think about it and something makes it easier for you to implement great! If not, I am still grateful for the tool and the time spent on it!

[voidbydefault]

Testing a game-changing update for our LinkedIn Easy Apply bot!

Aiming to prevent it from getting stuck on blue-moon applications with weirdo questions that it can'tanswer. The idea is to let the bot attempt application submissions for a total of five tries, and in the event of failure, it would move on to the next. I will push changes for public use if tests perform as expected. So, stay tuned!

[dgscharan]

this feature will be very useful.