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Pretty much.

Maybe I'm some rare unicorn. But I have NEVER successfully got a job filling out forms like this. It's a huge waste of my time.

And they can't do that with a resume? Most things seem to be able to do that automatically these days (fill out forms with info from a resume that is); just the not damned employer.

Also, it's hard for a computer to parse a resume, and most of this stuff runs through a computer before a human sees it, so filling a form makes sure the data is correct.

You also don't have to worry about corrupted or unsupported files.

Me too. The only jobs I apply to are ones I really want (obviously), so doing this just hurts my chances of getting them.

But I absolutely hate this bullshit.

K so....don't hire them?

I don't have it on mine. I finished high school (college) 20 years ago. There are way more relevant things to put in my resume than that.

Why do you even need to know my high-school?

Sorry to say but you hiring managers don’t know jack shit about hiring people. You have zero clue as to what qualifies an employee. Always asking the wrong questions.

The reason why corporations have a hard time finding talent isn’t because a lack of talent. It’s because the hiring process is a joke. But then you’ll complain that no one wants to work anymore.

The amount of top talent you toss into the bin because you don’t know what questions to is staggering.

Truly abysmal.

then why ask for both things? just have a checkbox to indicate that the information is in the resumé, and if it isn't then obviously they shouldn't be hired since they either can't read or don't give a shit.

Why do you need to know where I went to school if I have years of job experience showing that I can do the job? Education seems only to matter if someone is newly graduated and without real-world experience. And high school? Wtf?!

Why do you need to build a system to capture this information from people that can't read rather than just rejecting those applications?

Then why do you need the resume if you just ask for it all again

Unfortunately this computer filtering step tends to be highly inaccurate and game-able, but I’m not sure what to propose instead.

The EU actually has something like that:

https://europa.eu/europass/eportfolio/screen/profile-wizard?lang=en

My version was the last question of the test. She wanted us to read an entire test and then start answering after we finished reading it.

Lady, was I supposed to read an entire section of the SAT before taking it? That sounds so nutty.

That's a very pro-company spin on it. But on the other hand it definitely filters for people who don't mind being downright humiliated by a job that doesn't respect their time or puts effort into finding employees. This pattern of reentering your resume data is pretty brand new, and justifying it from the companies side is pretty post-hoc when it's really just offloading labor the company used to do to the unpaid job applicant who has to do this 20 times in a row.

Yes, they’re basically testing your ability or willingness to do meaningless tasks when they’re assigned to you because let’s face it, most jobs these days are 90% meaningless work.

I used to think that’s a bad thing because just like most people here, I wanted to be exceptional but perhaps it’s not the worst thing in the world to get paid for doing something so simple you could do it in your sleep, so you can save your mental energy for doing more important things in your free time.

This may be the case at some companies, but I think for the most part this is giving companies too much credit. Having people fill in these details in this form directly feeds into a spreadsheet, meaning the staff responsible for onboarding don't have to go looking for the information on the resume

I have filled out these forms, and I have abandoned applications.

If I am being paid to follow process, that's one thing. If I'm being forced to jump through hoops for free on my own time, before I'm even particularly interested in your company, that's a completely different thing.

Same with coding applications. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, really just depends on if I'm bored or not. But as a requirement before the application is even looked at, it's fucking stupid.

It's already being used, and already screens out people with the same biases you could expect (name sounds foreign, name is female, etc.).