Anyone else hate the online job application process??

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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?

Specializes in Assessment coordinator.

In 38 years of nursing, I have never gotten a job through an online application. I can't even get someone to respond past the canned e-mail that says my application was received. Whenever I need a job (every two years or so) I just start calling my friends. The company where I work has even lost my online application for a promotion to be my own boss. That's right I saw a job posting on line for a supervisor for my department, so I applied, and my app is gone! Yikes. Several other people applied and no one has been called for an interview. This has been going on for four months!

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Specializes in geriatrics.

Online apps are so impersonal. Even if you have completed everything properly, you have to wonder where it is going to end up. I think this is part of the reason people continue to search for work. These online resumes get lost and land in a vortex. Who knows?

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Specializes in LTC.

I especially liked the website where I filled out the entire application (45 minutes) and then an error message came up and told me it couldn't send the email!! I called HR and they said they only take online applications, LOL!! Gotta laugh or you'll cry I guess.

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In 38 years of nursing, I have never gotten a job through an online application. I can't even get someone to respond past the canned e-mail that says my application was received. Whenever I need a job (every two years or so) I just start calling my friends. The company where I work has even lost my online application for a promotion to be my own boss. That's right I saw a job posting on line for a supervisor for my department, so I applied, and my app is gone! Yikes. Several other people applied and no one has been called for an interview. This has been going on for four months!

:yeah:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

It's just so impersonal.

So, I got sick of it and decided to take some action!

I went and asked to see the manager of a residential place here and she wasn't there. I wasn't going to take no for an answer, and asked to put in an application - I wanted her email (I got HRs email but didn't know that at the time).

I got an email to send in an application, ie: what I had to do & got the job.

I also rang and persisted in speaking to the NUM of a large, teaching hospital & she encouraged me to send in an application. It's so nice to speak to someone face to face.

So be bold and go for it and be persistent I say! Tell all the managers how their online systems suck - cos that's what I did! And it seems to work.

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Specializes in Corrections/psych.

deep hatred. I try to always love...but this is like going through a lower rung of hell.

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