# Job Posted Date's are hidden from us while applying jobs online | Side Project - Chrome Extension

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[00:00] Okay.
[00:00] So, uh from quite a long I've been looking for job opportunities and with this actually I'm applying jobs online.
[00:12] I'm exploring different job portals almost every day uh such as LinkedIn, indeed uh simply hired, highest uh well found etc.
[00:22] So while in this process I realized that uh there's a loophole uh like not a loophole but uh it's like there's an issue in these job portals which is wasting a lot of my time.
[00:41] So I doubled on what exactly that issue is.
[00:43] So uh there are platforms such as Noy, LinkedIn where the employer themselves post the job but there are other platforms such as um Edjuna or simply hired many such or even in that case uh yeah I can I can't name it like.
[01:01] There are many, right, if you search on Google we get a lot of them.
[01:06] So these are actually the jobs, I mean these are job portals which scrap jobs from uh LinkedIn etc. and they show it on their portals, right?
[01:15] So what happens majorly in these job boards, also including LinkedIn, there are multiple jobs but there is no job posting date in it.
[01:28] For example, uh let's say this is the job, right?
[01:31] It is posted by TCS uh in the Mumbai location for NodeJS developer.
[01:37] But if you see there is no job posting date like when was this job posted?
[01:42] And to my surprise, these job is actually on the first page of my search only.
[01:50] So if I search for NodeJS developer, I may have that search this thing.
[01:57] Okay, so I uh searched for NodeJS developer in this location and if you see this ended this.
[02:03] Job without a job posting date ended up to be in my first uh search result only.
[02:10] And you know what uh to in the top of this the most surprising part is this job was posted like on 7th November 2025 and still on the first page of the search result.
[02:28] So you see uh I mean firstly this job does not have a job posting.
[02:31] Secondly it is on the first page of the search result.
[02:38] What a normal person would do is he would keep on applying to such job.
[02:43] I mean there are many like just endless like even if I search for uh on the first page of the no there are so many job with no job posting date.
[02:50] Noto at le actually does not even displays the you know um job date.
[02:57] See no being such a big job portal it is not giving the job posting date and they do take.
[03:03] So uh to.
[03:07] Solve this problem, what I have done is I have built a very small side project just like within two bars or something.
[03:13] Uh, so what this does is basically uh it uh gets uh the job data.
[03:23] So of course uh I mean the job date is there in the uh data which is received from the back end, but it's just hidden to the candidate.
[03:30] So no or you know indeed they don't show mostly like no does, but there are many other portals like Indeed, Simply Hired, has I just showed you example now, they don't show the job posting date.
[03:44] So what I've done this, what I've done is I have I'm extracting it from wherever they are they have kept the hidden and it's just visible on the page.
[03:52] Okay, so the thing is that one has to uh go inside the job.
[04:00] For example, you can see there are many job, so I just don't have to click on this, I have to open this job in a new tab and I.
[04:08] Can see the uh job posting date, okay.
[04:12] So uh you can, I'll uh attach this link on the description.
[04:15] You can use it uh if you want.
[04:18] So now uh like I'll of course answer the question like where I'm getting this job from.
[04:23] I mean this date from, is that relevant or not?
[04:29] So actually uh if you see, if you inspect uh uh the job uh HTML thing and if you refresh and if you look for job posting keyword, so you get to see this object, right?
[04:47] So it has all these uh date and valid till uh details, so I'm getting it from there.
[04:53] So this is very simple.
[04:56] I'm like basically like getting the document and then getting the object, getting the key, and just showing it up in the UI.
[05:02] That's it.
[05:02] It's very small project.
[05:04] So it's useful I think because I have seen myself applying to any number of jobs just to realize that these jobs.
[05:11] Are not even posted this year.
[05:14] Okay.
[05:14] So yeah, I think this may be helpful.
[05:17] Now the question is, if indeed, uh, if all other platform like Simply Hired at Zuna do have this job posting grid, then why don't, why don't they show this in the UI?
[05:28] Like, what's the reason?
[05:30] So according to my understanding, why they don't show is, uh, because, uh, see, firstly, they have lot of old jobs, right?
[05:36] Uh, and, uh, if you, if I mean, like, in the first search result, if they don't show the, uh, if they show the jobs on the basis of date, then you would end up not getting very good jobs, right?
[05:52] The job would not be relevant to you.
[05:54] For example, in any job board while applying to jobs, like, let's say, Naukri or something, if you, uh, you know, search for, uh, search by relevant, see, then you'll find there are very, like, beautiful jobs.
[06:08] But if you, uh, change the pagination to search by.
[06:11] Date then you find there are a lot of job which is not relevant to you.
[06:17] Uh so I guess this is the reason they don't want you to tell uh that this is old job or something and so that's the reason because there won't be any other reason I think because they have the data and if they're not showing it so that's actually a UX or it's a mind game right?
[06:34] So yeah uh so now uh talking about what this uh structure is many of time you'll also find CBTC details over here like in especially I guess in the case of noy and all in the job posting uh this thing CD I mean a lot of time CDC is not visible uh like they do have boolean like show to candidate true or false.
[06:59] So if it's true then they only show those CTC d uh details in the UI as they don't show it.
[07:05] So in that case they would definitely add that in the job posting structure over here so it's.
[07:13] Actually hidden in terms of UI, but it's actually easily available when we go to inspect and find in the elements.
[07:20] So yeah, that's the trick.
[07:22] Uh, but now talking about what this job posting structure is, which uh you can find in almost all the jobs uh inside the script uh and with the type of application LT plus JSC.
[07:32] So what exactly is this?
[07:36] Uh, uh, so you know that while searching a job on Google, you can find Google jobs as well, like there's a Google job portal like thing.
[07:43] Uh, you can get a lot of jobs from different website listed over there.
[07:49] So what Google says is that if you want your job to be indexed in my Google job portal, then have this structure in all of your job.
[07:56] So this is the reason, like almost like all of the job portal have this structure.
[08:01] So which gives uniformity and which tells Google, okay, this is the, so these structure is actually defined by Google themsel.
[08:12] And uh yeah, so yeah, that's it, I think, if you.
[08:16] Have any question related to these?
[08:18] So if you can see, okay, let's see.
[08:23] So, uh, yeah, that's it.
[08:26] Like you can get all other details as well.
[08:28] Uh, there are, as I said many times, the jobs uh details.
[08:32] And yeah, so yeah, that's said.
[08:34] Apart from that, do you have any questions?
[08:36] You can let me know on comments.
[08:39] Uh, I usually make videos in Hindi, but uh, as you know that as like I'm preparing for interviews, so I thought why not try English.
[08:50] Uh, yeah, that's it, I think.
[08:52] So you can also give a try to this extension, have it on your.
[08:55] Okay, just a bit like how to install it.
[08:58] So you can just clone this uh repo.
[09:01] Uh, you'll have the folder on your local.
[09:04] Then you can go to this chrome extension.
[09:08] You can uh load unpack it, unpacked.
[09:13] And you can uh add that filter, sorry, add that folder, select that folder here.
[09:20] You can then see it like this, okay?
[09:25] So yeah, that's it, I think.
[09:25] Yeah.