those online job appications that go on and on and are full of useless questions and stupid forms they make you fill out when you could just as easily copy and paste your resume...

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classic or dud? also, has anyone actually ever gotten a job this way? it reminds me of one of those online IQ tests where when you finally finish it they tell you you're a moron for having wasted all that time.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

and by "just as easily" i mean "a hundred thousand times more easily."

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

oh god. the worst is when you get done with all that shit, and then the next screen is "upload your resume! it's simple!". WTF?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

also, fuck my salary history. none of your fucking business!

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

appications

APPLICATIONS! yes i can spell. i was just typing in an agitated fit of pique.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

Most companies' HR departments have a standardized set of employment information that they must have on file. When it's all on the same forms it makes it easier to know if they've got it. It's just for record-keeping, no one ever actually looks at it except to see if you've filled everything out. I know this is a boring and wholly unsatisfactory answer, but I have filled out these things even when I know I've already got the job.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 9 June 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

but why are some of the questions so stupid?

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Let's face it -- 99% of the entire process of getting a job is not only stupid, but also humiliating. These forms are the least of the problem.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

"YO! WHO I GOTTA BLOW 'ROUND HERE TO GET A FUCKIN' JOB?!"

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 9 June 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

I just do these and click "yes" to everything that seems appropriate that they want, whether it's true or not. This is probably bad, and then I get phone calls saying BUT YOU SAID YOU KNEW XYZ PROTOCOL! when of course I don't, but if you'd bothered to have read my resume you'd have know that. Lazy bastards. Why should I do HR's jobs for them?

Never mind me, I'm just bitter cause the agencies keep danging jobs in front of my nose and then not giving them to me.

― The Square Root Of Negative Two (kate), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

This is a massive, collossal dud and it must be stopped.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Thursday, 9 June 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

agencies have no real interest in getting you jobs -- they just want to know your employment history and where else you've interviewed so they can get some free headhunting leads out of you.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

No, I have never gotten a job this way. Yes, I just gave up on yet another of these bloody stupid forms. Yes, all the ones I use ask for your uploaded resume anyway. Yes, they are arrogant crunks.

― Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

and then once they ask you to upload your resume they STILL ask you to bring in another copy if you go in for an interview.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

it's mostly just to see if you can follow instructions, innit?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

no matter how inefficient and redundant they may be, thereby making sure you are ripe for office work!

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 9 June 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like a way to whittle down the applicants to me. Dumb way when you think about it, because those of us with a brain will go elsewhere.

― Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

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