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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 73528" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Submit a resume on line???? </p><p> :geek: </p><p>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!!!!!!!!</p><p></p><p>First you factor in searching for a good match.......... - 45 min. </p><p>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</p><p>Then you must create a user profile! Uh? OK...... - 30 min.</p><p>Now you must download your resume into their appropriate fields.</p><p>STOP</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Ooooppss!!! The website logs you out! You lose a page of your data!.......................-30 min.</p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p>After all of that it asks if you want to save you profile in their job database. DO YA THINK? </p><p>But............alas.......it takes another......you guessed it.........-30 min. to simply save the data and create a "long term" profile.</p><p>And then......not kidding......it asks:</p><p>"in case you get hired please fill out the following tax information!!!"</p><p> :hammer: </p><p>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:</p><p>As George on Seinfeld screams</p><p><span style="color: #FF0000">SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 73528, member: 3301"] Submit a resume on line???? [img]:geek:[/img] 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!!!" [img]:hammer:[/img] 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 [img]:crazy:[/img] As George on Seinfeld screams <span style="color: #FF0000">SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! </span> [/QUOTE]
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