Insane mental gymnastics on display here. “Let us waste your time doing nothing of value or meaning to prove how you’ll behave when given a task of value and meaning” is linkedinlunatics material.
Comment on When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Real talk - if the applicant can’t be assed to fill out a form or write a cover letter then maybe they aren’t a good fit. Paperwork that people hate to do is critically important for many jobs.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 11 hours ago
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 30 minutes ago
Let us waste your time doing nothing of value or meaning to prove how you’ll behave when given a task of value and meaning” is linkedinlunatics material.
You’ve never had a job have you ?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The form are important because 90% of the applicants for a job these days aren’t remotely qualified because people shotgun resumes at a hundred jobs at once without even reading the qualifications and all their resumes are formatted differently.
I don’t have the time to go through that, so yeah - I filter out people who don’t bother to fill in the fields because they probably didn’t even read what the job is.
The fields get the resume to my desk. The resume and cover letter get you an interview, and the interview gets the job offer.
I hear about all these people sending out hundreds of job applications in every direction with no response, and it makes sense. When you’re competing against a hundred people for a job, you won’t stand out with a half-ass application. Focus on doing fewer, higher-quality applications.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
LLMs have made that kind of thing moot for LLM users. Honest ones, not so much.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You learn to spot LLM cover letters pretty quickly. And anybody who slips by won’t survive an interview.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org 7 hours ago
The fields get the resume to my desk. The resume and cover letter get you an interview, and the interview gets the job offer.
why would anyone bother to write something you tacitly admit you arent going to read
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The fields let me filter out whether someone meets the bare minimum at a glance in a standard format. If someone gets through that, I’ll read the resume, CV, and cover letter they prepared. If they get through that, they get an interview. If they get through that I’ll check references and make an offer.
Larger organizations take it a step further and have a computer auto-filter candidates based on the fields.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 9 hours ago
Oh hey, here’s one now!
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Okay but do you want to do that hundreds or thousands of times?
Varesti@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Like, 8 hours a day, at a desk, for money, over the course of an entire career…? Yeah, that’s why I’m filling out this application.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
If you’re filling out the exact same data into forms for 8 hours a day for 50 years, maybe automate it?
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
now we’re at the victim blaming stage where we expect people to utilize 100k a year job skills just to fill out applications for burger king.
Varesti@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Then they fire me, keep the software, and make someone else do 2 jobs. ☹️
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I get hundreds of half-ass applications for jobs. But the 10% that actually fill out the application and meet the minimum qualifications almost always get an interview.
dellish@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m happy to do mundane paperwork IF I’m getting paid to do it.
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Real talk - it’s a complete waste of time and a product of corporate complacency
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Everyone should beg for meaningless, repetitive work… And they should be grateful for it.