Steely
Active Member
Submit a resume on line????
:geek:
Yes.........indeedy..........I am on the big career hunt of my life - so I am on Monster, HotJobs, etc. And yes sirreeee.............it now takes up to 6 hours to submit a resume!!!!!!!!
First you factor in searching for a good match.......... - 45 min.
Then you must create a user login on the employer of your choices website! WTh? a personal login? OK, ok! (as if we don't have enough passwords and login names that we never remember on half a million websites).................... - 15 min
Then you must create a user profile! Uh? OK...... - 30 min.
Now you must download your resume into their appropriate fields.
STOP
My resume has a virus? Are you sure? OK! Run a virus scan, cuss, and search hi and low for the virus. No virus..................- 1 hour
Because of aforementioned virus you can't download your resume into their pre-set fields, so you have to type it manually. OK! Except Their application, is NO lie, 9 pages long........................... -2 hours
Ooooppss!!! The website logs you out! You lose a page of your data!.......................-30 min.
Then you have to fill out their job skills survey and answer more of the same exact questions you did on the previous 9 page job application. And please fill it in with "great detail" as they request.......... -1 hour
Then - finally!!!! You get to attach your resume and cover letter. You have been waiting for 5 hours just to get to do that! YEA! That is weird! NOW the resume does NOT virus?????????....Hmpfff................-30 min.
After all of that it asks if you want to save you profile in their job database. DO YA THINK?
But............alas.......it takes another......you guessed it.........-30 min. to simply save the data and create a "long term" profile.
And then......not kidding......it asks:
"in case you get hired please fill out the following tax information!!!"
:hammer:
I know. I should have scrapped the whole thing after the first glimpse of their 9 page application. But my tightly wired Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) got the best of me, and before I knew it I had compulsively spent my whole day letting this employer receive every ounce of energy I possessed. INSANE :crazy:
As George on Seinfeld screams
<span style="color: #FF0000">SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span>
:geek:
Yes.........indeedy..........I am on the big career hunt of my life - so I am on Monster, HotJobs, etc. And yes sirreeee.............it now takes up to 6 hours to submit a resume!!!!!!!!
First you factor in searching for a good match.......... - 45 min.
Then you must create a user login on the employer of your choices website! WTh? a personal login? OK, ok! (as if we don't have enough passwords and login names that we never remember on half a million websites).................... - 15 min
Then you must create a user profile! Uh? OK...... - 30 min.
Now you must download your resume into their appropriate fields.
STOP
My resume has a virus? Are you sure? OK! Run a virus scan, cuss, and search hi and low for the virus. No virus..................- 1 hour
Because of aforementioned virus you can't download your resume into their pre-set fields, so you have to type it manually. OK! Except Their application, is NO lie, 9 pages long........................... -2 hours
Ooooppss!!! The website logs you out! You lose a page of your data!.......................-30 min.
Then you have to fill out their job skills survey and answer more of the same exact questions you did on the previous 9 page job application. And please fill it in with "great detail" as they request.......... -1 hour
Then - finally!!!! You get to attach your resume and cover letter. You have been waiting for 5 hours just to get to do that! YEA! That is weird! NOW the resume does NOT virus?????????....Hmpfff................-30 min.
After all of that it asks if you want to save you profile in their job database. DO YA THINK?
But............alas.......it takes another......you guessed it.........-30 min. to simply save the data and create a "long term" profile.
And then......not kidding......it asks:
"in case you get hired please fill out the following tax information!!!"
:hammer:
I know. I should have scrapped the whole thing after the first glimpse of their 9 page application. But my tightly wired Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) got the best of me, and before I knew it I had compulsively spent my whole day letting this employer receive every ounce of energy I possessed. INSANE :crazy:
As George on Seinfeld screams
<span style="color: #FF0000">SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span>