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4 Job Application Pet Peeves That Drive Me Crazy

Sometimes applying for jobs feels like a full-time job.

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There's nothing more stressful than unemployment. Or being stuck in a dead end job you hate. What makes it worse, is how difficult finding a job can be. Here are a few pet peeves I have about the job application process.

1. Asking for your resume and still making you type everything in. 

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I thought the point of the resume was to have all the information about said candidate right there. Name, contact info, job history, education… all that jazz. So why do some applications require you to link your resume, JUST TO HAVE YOU MANUALLY TYPE IN ALL THE INFORMATION ON THE RESUME. Talk about "Waste your time 2018." Please just ask for one or the other. But literally, when I have to type all of my information in, I'm just copying and pasting from my resume.

2. Creating profiles on company websites.

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Maybe it's just because I'm lazy, or maybe it's because I hate 20 emails a day, but this really gets on my nerves. If I want to apply for one job at your company ONE TIME, I shouldn't have to create an entire job profile. I see the point of this for larger companies and I guess in the long run it makes it kinda easier. For example, Disney is a huge company with 40 bajillion different branches, so it makes sense to make a job profile on Disney Orlando's job website so that they'll have your information on file in the candidate pool, so you can see what jobs you've already applied for, and to expedite applying for multiple jobs at the same company. This process it just plain tedious when you've spent the last four hours submitting three job applications. It also leads me to my next peeve.

3. Obnoxious login requirements. 

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The issue with creating a million profiles on a million different websites is that it's so hard to keep the login information straight. In a perfect world, you'll be able to use your email and email password for the login. But nooooooooooooo, this isn't good enough for most websites. They all want unique usernames. Ones that don't use your actual name or email or ascending/ descending numbers… Or English words at all. Then the password must: have a capital letter, three lower cased letters, a special character, two imaginary numbers, nine logarithms, a lock of your baby hair, the Kraby Patty secret formula, and only be 7 characters. THEN THEY ASK YOU TO DO THAT "I AM NOT A ROBOT" PICTURE THING RIGHT AFTERWARDS!! So literally, your passwords ends up being SH*@4T. Just so you can forget it and must reset it next time.

4. Personality Assessments.

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These tests are the actual devil. Satan is busy, and this is what he is doing! First, these "assessments" are always 400 questions. But they never number them. You just see 50 bullets down the screen and the percentage to completion at the top. Then, when you click to the next 50 bullets, the completion percentage increases by like three percent. The worst part is the questions and scenarios they toss you into. They try your life at the beginning with the whole "There is no right or wrong answer" then pull out the question "Murdering someone is always bad? Agree, Disagree, Partially Agree, Partially Disagree, WTF" I swear I've have more intense conversations with job applications than with my friends and family.

The real-life scenarios are even more ridiculous! "Judy is a rude co-worker no one likes. However, her father is the manager. You saw Judy taking money from the cash register without permission. As she leaves you notice her walking towards a puddle of water you forgot to mop during your shift. Do you: "Warn her and let her take the money. Let her slip because karma, but you'll be fired for not mopping the floor. Threaten to tell on her unless she splits the money with you. Blame the wet floor on another co-worker." ALL OF THESE ARE THE WRONG ANSWER! But you have to choose one! Then when they don't call back for the position, you're wondering if it was because of how you answered these questions!!

The saddest thing about this excruciating process is that most of these jobs don't even call you in for an interview. On the bright side, I guess we can say this makes scoring a job that much more satisfying.

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