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Autofill job applications, including the portals that break other tools

Free Chrome extension · Works on modern application portals · Your data stays on your device

Every job application asks for the same things: your name, contact details, address, work history, education, links, and a handful of questions you've answered a hundred times. Most career portals don't accept your résumé as an answer; they make you type it all in again. EchoFill fixes that. Fill one application the normal way, click Record, and the next portal fills itself.

Why job portals are hard to autofill

Browser autofill was built for shipping addresses, not application forms. Application portals usually have three things that defeat it:

• Custom dropdowns. "Country", "How did you hear about us?", "Years of experience" are often searchable menus built in JavaScript, not standard dropdowns. Many autofill tools can't open them at all.
• Multi-page flows. Contact details on page 1, work history on page 2, questions on page 3. A tool that only fills the first page saves you very little.
• Framework-built fields. Sites built with React, Vue or Angular ignore text that's pasted in programmatically unless it's typed the way a person types it.

EchoFill was designed around exactly these problems. It fills fields the way a person does, so the site registers the value. It opens custom dropdowns and picks the option by its visible text. And on sites you approve for automatic filling, it learns the answers you add on later pages, so every step of the next application fills.

How to set it up

1. Fill one application by hand. Any portal will do. Take your time on the questions you'll be asked again: notice period, salary expectations, work authorisation, LinkedIn URL.
2. Click EchoFill → Record this form. Name the profile something like "Job applications". EchoFill saves every field, including dropdown choices.
3. Turn on "Fill automatically next time". Chrome will ask you to allow that one site. Say yes, and the portal fills itself whenever you return. On other portals, click Autofill once.
4. Keep going. As you answer new questions on later pages, EchoFill adds them to the profile. It never changes an answer you already saved.

Tips from heavy users

• Keep two profiles. One for straightforward roles, one for a different track (say, engineering vs. project management) with a different headline and summary. Free includes three.
• Export to a spreadsheet. Settings → Backup → CSV lets you tidy up every answer in one place, then import it back.
• Pro's Universal fields fill portals you've never seen: "Given name" gets your first name, "Mobile" gets your phone, and so on. Useful when every company uses a different applicant system.
• Review before you submit. EchoFill highlights what it filled and gives you a one-click Undo. Always glance over an application before sending it.

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