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title: "Tech Recruiter Tries Coding — Google Apps Script"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2022-10-31T21:51:11+00:00
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description: "Sharing this post as hopefully it's encouragement if you are new or a beginner to Google Apps Script that with some time and effort you can begin building your custom solutions in Google Workspace. Also, if nothing else it's all a great reminder that you can quickly enhance your UI with Unicode characters."
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# Tech Recruiter Tries Coding — Google Apps Script

![Tech Recruiter Tries Coding — Google Apps Script](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2022/10/unicode-1.png)

> Photo by [Mohammad Rahmani](https://unsplash.com/@afgprogrammer) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/)
> After years of working adjacent to software development, first in sales and then in recruitment, I abruptly decided to take the plunge into the other side, and start coding to automate or speed up tasks of my everyday job.
> The idea came by when I started using Google Sheets more heavily, and realized how powerful it is by itself, and how much more it can become with the addition of Google Apps Script, which I discovered to my surprise is actually modern JavaScript.

Sharing this post as hopefully it’s encouragement if you are new or a beginner to Google Apps Script that with some time and effort you can begin building your custom solutions in Google Workspace. Also, if nothing else it’s all a great reminder that you can quickly enhance your UI with Unicode characters:

![](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2022/10/unicode-1.png)

Source: *[Tech Recruiter Tries Coding — Google Apps Script*](https://medium.com/fusionworks/tech-recruiter-tries-coding-google-apps-script-76b5aceb0d44)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2022/10/tech-recruiter-tries-coding-google-apps-script/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2022/10/tech-recruiter-tries-coding-google-apps-script/)*