Online application redundancy?

[guest707142]

My question for you guys is: when submitting a job application online, most companies will give you the opportunity to upload a copy of your resume. If you choose to do this, is it necessary to fill out all of the previous employment/education/etc. sections on the online application? Do most people generally upload their resume and fill in these sections separately so they're in two locations? Will they even look at the resume I upload if its all in there anyway? Filling all of this out seems a little redundant to me.

What do you guys do?

[melizerd, ASN, RN]

All the places I applied I uploaded resume/cover letter but also filled in all blanks as well. It is redundant and kind of annoying but most required all those filled too.

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

It depends on the facility. Some REQUIRE all that stuff filled out on the online application even if you attach your resume.

[Graduatenurse14]

I do (or did) whatever they tell me to do. Is it redundant?? Even painful??

YES!!! But they are now a necessary evil.

[caliotter3]

Anything that I have ever filled out online won't let you go to the next field or page, unless you fill in a field or fill it in correctly. I would imagine this would usually be the case. One of the reasons I dislike online apps.

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

Yes

yes

if you don't fill the boxes your resume won't get read.

I do it because otherwise that application is never going to be looked upon by human eyes.

If if you can't follow their rules, foolish as they may seem, don't even bother to apply. You will be wasting your time. Some applications will upload some boxes directly from your resume, but that's fairly rare.

[guest707142]

Thanks for the feedback - I recently created an online "profile" to apply for a couple jobs at the local Children's hospital and went through all the tediousness of filling it all out in addition to the resume! It was actually kind of neat because you could apply to multiple jobs at once. I ended up filing 5 applications in under 10 minutes after the profile was all said and done.