Insane mental gymnastics on display here. “Let us waste your time doing nothing of value or meaning to prove how you’ll behave when given a task of value and meaning” is linkedinlunatics material.
The form are important because 90% of the applicants for a job these days aren’t remotely qualified because people shotgun resumes at a hundred jobs at once without even reading the qualifications and all their resumes are formatted differently.
I don’t have the time to go through that, so yeah - I filter out people who don’t bother to fill in the fields because they probably didn’t even read what the job is.
The fields get the resume to my desk. The resume and cover letter get you an interview, and the interview gets the job offer.
I hear about all these people sending out hundreds of job applications in every direction with no response, and it makes sense. When you’re competing against a hundred people for a job, you won’t stand out with a half-ass application. Focus on doing fewer, higher-quality applications.
Insane mental gymnastics on display here. “Let us waste your time doing nothing of value or meaning to prove how you’ll behave when given a task of value and meaning” is linkedinlunatics material.
The form are important because 90% of the applicants for a job these days aren’t remotely qualified because people shotgun resumes at a hundred jobs at once without even reading the qualifications and all their resumes are formatted differently.
I don’t have the time to go through that, so yeah - I filter out people who don’t bother to fill in the fields because they probably didn’t even read what the job is.
The fields get the resume to my desk. The resume and cover letter get you an interview, and the interview gets the job offer.
I hear about all these people sending out hundreds of job applications in every direction with no response, and it makes sense. When you’re competing against a hundred people for a job, you won’t stand out with a half-ass application. Focus on doing fewer, higher-quality applications.
Oh hey, here’s one now!