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Online Job Applications (long)
Since when did filling out job applications become such a tedious process? I'm talking about the online ones where they have like 100 pages of crap to fill out. Aside from the basic contact info, and personal info, this crap includes,
-Being asked the same crap over and over again, but worded differently. Some of this is intentional because of the questionair crap (which I'll get to later), but sometimes it's just bad programming because there's like 7 different parts which all requires the same info.
-Many long E-contracts to read. Lucky for me, I already applied at those places so I know it's just the same old "We're not obligated to hire you, will you submit to a drug test, we will own your soul" kind of stuff. So I just skim through it.
-Some require setting up your own account. Seriously? I'm only applying here once, why do I need to make an account and password?
-And because sometimes the system fucks up and crashes in the middle, you need a restart code. This is a handy little thing to have, but in addition to the restart code, you need a restart password as well. WTF? Isn't the code enough? And of course, the password has to be numbers and letters, atleast 6 characters, and can't be the same as your code. A minor annoyance, but an unnecessary one, and hey, it piles up.
-WAY too much information. Look, I can remember the volunteer work I did, where I did it, what I did, who I did it for, but I can't remember the exact date I started, and the exact date I quit. I can give a rough estimate, but the system doesn't allow it!
-Which brings up another thing, some fields are manditory, but in some cases don't apply. Like, with volunteer work, how much I made shouldn't apply since it's, you know, volunteer, but it's a mandatory field, so I have to put something! In one other instance, prior work experience (WORK experience, not volunteer) was manditory, even if you didn't have any! You could put none, but all the other fields for that were manditory.
-Overall, just too much information needed that shouldn't even matter. They make what should be a simple application way too complicated. I didn't even have that much experience, and it takes me atleast a half an hour for each one!
And if all that wasn't bad enough, they usually end the application with a survery consisting of 100 of the dumbest, touchy feely, will you bend over backwards for us, multiple choice survey questions ever! Not only do they want perfect slave material, but they want people who enjoy being a slave.
"You hate following rules" (why not just say you don't mind following rules?)
"You enjoy working under preasure" (pretty sure that was one of the questions).
And then there are others like,
"Your friends always come to you first" (Oh I hate these ones)
"You like to talk a lot" (So sue me, I'm an introvert)
"People do a lot of annoying things" (You really want me to answer that one honestly?)
And hundreds of others that if answered honestly, at least 99.9999999% of the human race would fail epically on it. I know you're supposed to BS on them, but I think part of them actually expects this in their workers. They either want liars, or people who are inhuman cartoon characters. And just saying agree or disagree isn't enough, you have to STRONGLY agree or STRONGLY disagree. You have to be religiously devoted to the company or they don't want you. Well on planet earth, not everything is in black and white, okay?
Gah! Why must applications be such a daunting task?
DAMN IT!!!!!
-Being asked the same crap over and over again, but worded differently. Some of this is intentional because of the questionair crap (which I'll get to later), but sometimes it's just bad programming because there's like 7 different parts which all requires the same info.
-Many long E-contracts to read. Lucky for me, I already applied at those places so I know it's just the same old "We're not obligated to hire you, will you submit to a drug test, we will own your soul" kind of stuff. So I just skim through it.
-Some require setting up your own account. Seriously? I'm only applying here once, why do I need to make an account and password?
-And because sometimes the system fucks up and crashes in the middle, you need a restart code. This is a handy little thing to have, but in addition to the restart code, you need a restart password as well. WTF? Isn't the code enough? And of course, the password has to be numbers and letters, atleast 6 characters, and can't be the same as your code. A minor annoyance, but an unnecessary one, and hey, it piles up.
-WAY too much information. Look, I can remember the volunteer work I did, where I did it, what I did, who I did it for, but I can't remember the exact date I started, and the exact date I quit. I can give a rough estimate, but the system doesn't allow it!
-Which brings up another thing, some fields are manditory, but in some cases don't apply. Like, with volunteer work, how much I made shouldn't apply since it's, you know, volunteer, but it's a mandatory field, so I have to put something! In one other instance, prior work experience (WORK experience, not volunteer) was manditory, even if you didn't have any! You could put none, but all the other fields for that were manditory.
-Overall, just too much information needed that shouldn't even matter. They make what should be a simple application way too complicated. I didn't even have that much experience, and it takes me atleast a half an hour for each one!
And if all that wasn't bad enough, they usually end the application with a survery consisting of 100 of the dumbest, touchy feely, will you bend over backwards for us, multiple choice survey questions ever! Not only do they want perfect slave material, but they want people who enjoy being a slave.
"You hate following rules" (why not just say you don't mind following rules?)
"You enjoy working under preasure" (pretty sure that was one of the questions).
And then there are others like,
"Your friends always come to you first" (Oh I hate these ones)
"You like to talk a lot" (So sue me, I'm an introvert)
"People do a lot of annoying things" (You really want me to answer that one honestly?)
And hundreds of others that if answered honestly, at least 99.9999999% of the human race would fail epically on it. I know you're supposed to BS on them, but I think part of them actually expects this in their workers. They either want liars, or people who are inhuman cartoon characters. And just saying agree or disagree isn't enough, you have to STRONGLY agree or STRONGLY disagree. You have to be religiously devoted to the company or they don't want you. Well on planet earth, not everything is in black and white, okay?
Gah! Why must applications be such a daunting task?
DAMN IT!!!!!
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