How to Use the CVCircuit Extension on Reed and Totaljobs

Reed.co.uk

Reed is one of the UK's most visited job boards, covering roles across virtually every sector and skill level. It's particularly strong in office, administrative, finance, and healthcare roles.

Reed's job listings open in a full-screen modal overlay when you click on a listing. Crucially, the job description lazy-loads inside this modal — it's fetched and rendered after the modal opens, not immediately.

This creates a technical challenge for job extraction: if the extension reads the page before the description has rendered, it captures an incomplete listing.

CVCircuit handles this with a dedicated description render observer. The extension watches for the description to fully appear inside the modal before extracting the text. You get the complete job description every time — not a truncated version cut off mid-sentence.

To use CVCircuit on Reed: click a listing, wait for the modal to fully load (usually 1–2 seconds), then open the CVCircuit panel. The job will be fully detected and ready to tailor.

Totaljobs

Totaljobs uses a standard job detail page structure with a dedicated description area. CVCircuit extracts from this page reliably using targeted selectors for title, company, location, and description.

Totaljobs is particularly popular for roles in IT, engineering, and professional services. CVCircuit's automatic detection works across all job types listed on the platform.

Why UK-specific boards matter

LinkedIn and Indeed are global platforms. Reed and Totaljobs are specifically UK-focused — and for many industries and salary ranges, they list roles that don't appear on the international boards.

A job search tool that only works on global platforms leaves a significant portion of the UK job market uncovered. CVCircuit's native support for Reed and Totaljobs means your extension works across your full job search, not just part of it.

The same experience, every board

Whether you're on LinkedIn, Reed, Indeed, or CV-Library, the CVCircuit experience is the same: job detected automatically, tailor with one click, tailored CV ready in 15–30 seconds.

The technical complexity of handling each board's different structure is invisible to you.