All the Bullsh*t That’s Wrong with the Job Hunting Process
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Younger generations have gotten a bad rep as lazy and unwilling to work, and while I won’t get too deep into that here, we should take a hard look at the other side of the employment dynamic. Namely, employers are unwilling to meet employees halfway, and that starts at the job searching process.
Without any further ado, here is some of the worst poppycock I have encountered in my endless search for a measly entry-level job with less than an hour’s commute.
Typing out your entire resume. Again.
More often than not, and certainly more often than needed, you are expected to type out your resume from scratch for every application you submit. It’s not as simple as a quick copy and paste because their forms will have a separate field for every piece of data. If only they let you upload the resume .pdf that you created for this very purpose, right?
I have heard jobs do this to weed out applicants, but when you are filling out dozens of these applications, it sure feels like they are making you do busy work. For free. Before hiring you.
A robot will determine whether a human will lay eyes on your application.