I really hate job application forms

I completely feel your pain! ARGH! Who on earth reads these forms.... is it just so that HR managers and recruitment can justify their positions..

thank you!
i now know im not the only one that feels this way. I just want a bloody job! ive been at this for so long im going mad. im 19 and ive still yet to have my first "proper" job. sure ive been on training courses earning £50 a week for putting in 30 hours of slave labour but not a real job. I dont even care where I work anymore. I feel terrible. I feel like every hour I spend filling out a single application is a waste of time and paper because they never bother to reply let alone offer me an interview. for gods sake somebody just give me a chance to prove myself!!!!
i can see it now, 30 and still living with parents. im sick of living here I just wanna move out. but I cant because I need money and to have money I need a job
honestly im starting to give up. I feel like im going down a really dark path now.

I feel your pain exactly and I am an engineer with no children.

Who are these wierdos who dream up this put your life in a box please stuff. Basically I avoid any company who acts like this which is pretty much all of them so I'm still unemployed also.

They just don't like people and prefer not to employ any I think. They are just waiting for the day when they are the only human left on earth and all the gift cards are dispensed to the population who will by now be rubber doll type robots.

I feel a little better now but I still don't hold out any hope that these people will dissapear.

Who are they, who are you? why are you such morons and why are you employed???

I feel your pain exactly and I am an engineer with no children.

Who are these wierdos who dream up this put your life in a box please stuff. Basically I avoid any company who acts like this which is pretty much all of them so I'm still unemployed also.

They just don't like people and prefer not to employ any I think. They are just waiting for the day when they are the only human left on earth and all the gift cards are dispensed to the population who will by now be rubber doll type robots.

I feel a little better now but I still don't hold out any hope that these people will dissapear.

Who are they, who are you? why are you such morons and why are you employed???

An extensive hiring process is a direct result of a high volume of applicants. You have to weed people out somehow and having an extensive hiring process ensures you get the people who want the job the most. The ones who DO think it is worth their time. The ones who don't think they are really above the position they are applying for.

You would be surprised how many people do anwer, "yes" to the "have you ever stolen from work?" question. Not everyone is as smart as you, apparently.

My suggestion is to make yourself qualified for the position you DO think are worth this kind of time.

This is one of the best pieces I have read on the internet in a LONG time! Thank you! I applied for a job recently in a well-known British pharmacist chain, and was bombarded with a 20 minute multiple choice questionaire which tried in not so subtle, but slightly differently worded language whether I thought a) it was wrong to steal, and b) whether I would undermine my managers if I thought I was smarter than them... How ridiculous! I mean, even if you were planning to steal from work (which I neither condone nor plan to do obviously), you would have to be pretty thick to admit so on a job application! You really do wonder about the people who design these forms sometimes...

Metro ran two particularly annoying ads the other day: one was for an administrator for the Methodist Church. There was a tiresome and time-consuming application form to fill in and a disclaimer saying that if you were not shortlisted, you would not be contacted due to "lack of resources". So much for a church which proclaims all sorts of warm fluffy guff like "our only religion is social" on its web page and can't even be bothered to get a volunteer to write a standard email and hit "send". The other one was for parking attendants in a West London borough and it was headlined "Passion" - of all things. This apparently means a passion for pleasing "customers" ???!!!

I totally agree, its so insulting. I am filling out an application form which requires every scrap of information about me, not more or less when, but the actual days. It even says in the supporting information pack that you need to fill in all dates fully including days to assist with the shortlisting process.... Er I don't quite remember the exact start date of term when I embarked upon my GCSEs 16 years ago. Does that mean I can't get a job? I have been temping recently and spent a good deal of time shredding chunky application forms which had been painstakingly filled out and skim read for 'essential criteria' and binned in 5 minutes. Surely there is a way of giving equal opportunities to candidates without punishing them with hours of trawling and patronising 'supporting evidence' which may as well just say 'Beg:'

I totally agree, its so insulting. I am filling out an application form which requires every scrap of information about me, not more or less when, but the actual days. It even says in the supporting information pack that you need to fill in all dates fully including days to assist with the shortlisting process.... Er I don't quite remember the exact start date of term when I embarked upon my GCSEs 16 years ago. Does that mean I can't get a job? I have been temping recently and spent a good deal of time shredding chunky application forms which had been painstakingly filled out and skim read for 'essential criteria' and binned in 5 minutes. Surely there is a way of giving equal opportunities to candidates without punishing them with hours of trawling and patronising 'supporting evidence' which may as well just say 'Beg:'

Very funny and I agree! I've been sitting on an application form for voluntary work (would you believe it) for a week! I have a well written CV but avoid applying for jobs with charities, local authorities and central government because they all require you to wade through various documents and complete the mind numbing application form. Why is my CV not enough. Why must every application be in an identical format?

I think my dislike of ApForms has become a phobia!

The whole point of HR departments is to: Make themselves indispensible. A short application form wouldn't achieve that because anyone could knock one up. Q1. Why do you want the job? Answer: money. Make application forms so annoying that you daren't leave the company if the job turns out to be a dog Otherwise, you have to repeat the whole process again. Make sure you really do want the job or will be too exhausted to turn it down - otherwise why spend half a day filling in a bunch of questions that have no relevance to why you want the job.
Make you so exhausted and demoralised you'll take any old ob, with dreadful pay just to avoid more application forms.

This process just about makes me boil over, it's demeaning, phoney and frankly necessitates dishonesty. I am very keen to find a new job but feel so resentful of the need to present myself as some feisty go-getting airport novel heroine simply to get myself considered for a fairly junior admin role. All HR people want is some glossy impenetrable Stepford corporate image - one of them recently admitted as much to me. So that's what you have to present if you want to eat and pay the rent. Then you have the stress of trying to live up to it. I have a lot of useful qualities, I am helpful, conscientious, accurate, but I am quite shy and my confidence is pretty low right now. And I've been told any glimmer of self doubt is the kiss of death in interviews. And when did working because you need money become such a taboo concept?

The other thing that makes me see red is when companies make you fill in these excruciating time consuming forms, then say that because of "lack of resources" they will only be contacting shortlisted candidates and everyone else should just assume after a month or so that they have not been shortlisted. Exactly how much effort does drafting a standard rejection email and hitting "send" take?

That Legal & General videotape interview surely takes the biscuit.

Better stop now before my blood pressure goes off the scale!!