okay, not dating related, general life related.

Why do you have to take the time to make a new resume for so many of the online job hunting sites. Then when you apply for a job, you have to link the resume, but then you have to fill out all the same information again, in individual windows. They are getting all the info twice. And it takes so much time to fill out all those fields after you already are sending the Resume with all the same data. It is driving me completely bonkers.

I friggin' HATE that!!!!

I just went through that today. I went in with a MY resume and they had me fill out THEIRS, again! I didnt understand it but they liked my resume better than theirs.

I understand exactly what you are saying and it drives me bonkers too!!!

can you just type it all on like note pad then copy paste it where its need instead of typing it all over again?

Because we, the employer, want to make sure that someone is reasonably serious about the position that that are applying for. If someone takes the time to "go through the paces"...it's a good start, as opposed to simply copying & pasting the info.

I know...it seems like a PITA, but think about it. There is a method to our madness

I do that for the 'resume' section. Then it goes through and has the education section, asking for the same info. Then a new window for the employment section. Info that they already have. Then a new window for references, which they also received on teh resume. ARG.

But they want the cut and paste info in the resume section, then ask for it all over again. And the way online applications are set up, it takes twice as long as it would if I were filling out a paper application. But for most places, that is no longer an option.


Used to be, I could spend an hour picking up applications at a mall, another hour running around town picking up applications at various other business offices. Then sit down and spend an hour or two filling out a dozen or more applications, and then take them all back. I could do 12-24 in a day.

Online, it takes nearly an hour each place. So in a day, I only seem to get a hand full done. That's excluding the hours spent typing in various search words, trying to think how different industries might name the same job.

Online job hunting seems so much slower and more tedious and even harder than in-person job hunting.

Oh, great. A page wouldn't load. Now it lost all the info on all the previous pages as well, and wants me to re-enter 6 pages of information. I don't think so.

One of the versions is pulled into an internal database where "keywords" can be searched on by H.R. (aka:human race horses) They match your "keywords" against currently open positions. If none of your "keywords" match with the open positions...then you'll be passed over.

As for filling out the actual form again online...well, that's so that they can take that info and dump that into another database to keep track of who had applied and pull up that info in the event that your "keywords" did not match any of the search criteria as mentioned in the previous paragraph, in the event that they had no matches for the position based on the "keyword" method.

Sorry for the long geeky answer...but that is the answer

Hope that helps

I agree as an employer but IF I want to apply for something it's a PIMA!!!!

There's always Mickey Dee's....

Signed...PIYA

Possibly could be a way to protect themselves from spammers...with some sites your computer can remember information you've typed in before, same as when you save your log ins for other sites.

Its a pain...that's why I choose to stay unemployed. too much work involved finding a job.