Anyone else hate the online job application process??

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Specializes in LTC.

Call me old school, but I worked hard on my resume and cover letters. Why do I have to type in all the information AGAIN when it's all on the resume you just let me upload?? If there is a spot that lets you do that of course. UGH. Just frustrated because it takes so long. Anyone else have an opinion?

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Specializes in Critical Care, Nsg QA.

Ditto!

Sometimes the questions you have to answer (required field) doesn't make sense. Example, start and end dates. How do you answer if you are currently in a job?? What required end date do you use? Ugh.

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Specializes in LTC.

Ditto ! I hate hate hate online apps.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.

I despise the online process. It's tedious and laborious and further forces the 3-dimensional person into a 2-dimensional vanilla template.

The online process is, I think, one of the big reasons why people with personal contacts get hired preferentially.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.
I despise the online process. It's tedious and laborious and further forces the 3-dimensional person into a 2-dimensional vanilla template.

The online process is, I think, one of the big reasons why people with personal contacts get hired preferentially.

very very true. Im not a nurse yet but did you kno you have to fill out an online application to McDonald's! It's just makes the process so impersonal.

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Don't even get me started... I have so many online apps out there right now along with all of the other new grads and "old" new grads... if they only knew how AWESOME I am it would be a no brainer! :0)

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Specializes in LTC.

Yeah--how to get your awesomeness across in an online application, THAT is the question!! I am filling in the online application and then walking in to HR (although a recent Reader's Digest article said that HR people think that is creepy these days!) and handing them hard copies of everything.

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Specializes in NICU, new to school nursing.

I agree with everything you guys have said. Honestly, I know I don't look that stellar or stand out on paper. I didn't work as a CNA/PCT/nursing assistant (not that I didn't apply to a dozen hospitals), the only jobs I have had are as receptionists in offices (no medical offices), and my nursing grades were great but my overall GPA is just average as I switched from bio to nursing. I did volunteer and the one interview I did get told me that is why they called me even though they weren't planning on giving the job to a new grad so I am hoping other places feel the same way. If anyone, even a receptionist in HR, would accept applications/resumes in person and get a hint of our personalities I feel a lot more people who may not look so great on paper but are awesome new nurses who are willing to learn and work hard would get hired. I myself haven't tried also bringing hard copies to HR but I know people who have and the hospitals would not even accept the hard copies and dismissed them telling them the only way to apply was online and that they do not accept paper resumes.

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Specializes in Med-surgical, Telemetry, Critical care.

I agree with the posted messages about on-line applications.What is a nurse to do to get an interview in the day of computer tech. I have 20 years of experience and can't seem to get any interviews. Feeling a bit frustrated at this time.

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What are you talking about? I LOVE uploading my resume and then painstakingly correcting the fields when it gets uploaded completely incorrectly. I especially love one local employer whose system doesn't save at all so each and every time you apply for a job there you have to redo the whole darn thing and HEAVEN FORBID you want to go back and correct an error you notice because it means redoing the whole entire thing. And I especially love knowing that these online applications get filtered out by keywords and "deal breaker" responses so if you use the wrong wording or don't have exactly the right responses your application sits in internet limbo forever.

Honestly, I am so glad I have a job and that I got one before I finally chucked my computer across the room in frustration!

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I agree with all the previous posts!! I definitely feel that the online application process just might be responsible for my career's demise, before it's even started.... I graduated from nursing school in December 2010, with honors. I have over 15 years of work exp: customer service, waitressing, etc and I have only gotten one interview. The only reason I got that one interview was because of a friend of friend... Anyways, didn't get the job because I don't have a BSN.

I was starting to feel like something was wrong with my resume, so I've had many people look it over, and I even had a friend in the healthcare field, help me tweak it by adding "keywords", and nothing. Not even a phone call!!

Back in the day, before nursing school and before online, automated applications, I never had trouble getting a job. I feel like if I could just go in there, introduce myself and give them my resume, I would be working by now. But all the facilities around here really frown upon "going above HR".

Thanks for the thread, I needed to vent!:banghead:

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Pediatrics, Hospice.

I hate them too. The worst is when you spend 45 minutes filling one out and your browser crashes and loses everything! I've had a couple interviews where I submit my resume, fill out the online app, and still have to fill out an handwritten app at the interview!

Ugh.

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