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.
No. I’m being paid to keep the city running, and finding someone qualified to fill open positions in my department is one part of that. Accurate record-keeping is an important part of our work and a legal requirement. Someone who doesn’t understand or care that using a standard format for the recording and analysis of information is important isn’t worth considering any further. Hiring someone so arrogant or lazy is worse than leaving the position open, because they cause more issues down the line than they resolve.
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.
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.
I’ve had many. None of them did this to me. If they wanted to see what I could do they would put me in a real but low stakes situation with supervision and see how I performed. You’ve become accustomed to the inexcusable to the point where you’re making excuses on its behalf. I pity you.
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.
Who in Burger King spends all their days filling out the exact same data all the time? Most people I see at Burger King are making food.
I was replying to the person saying that it’s important that people show they can fill out forms with precision and I’m saying that filling out the same exact data into a bunch of forms isn’t what anyone does at their job because if it was, that position should be automated away anyway.
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.
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.
Why should I waste time putting effort into an application when you dont even read, let alone respond to over half of them anyway
When I have dozens or hundreds of applications to sift through, why should I look at yours if you can’t be bothered to complete it when others have?
Because thats your job that you are getting paid to do.
No. I’m being paid to keep the city running, and finding someone qualified to fill open positions in my department is one part of that. Accurate record-keeping is an important part of our work and a legal requirement. Someone who doesn’t understand or care that using a standard format for the recording and analysis of information is important isn’t worth considering any further. Hiring someone so arrogant or lazy is worse than leaving the position open, because they cause more issues down the line than they resolve.
Everyone should beg for meaningless, repetitive work… And they should be grateful for it.
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.
You’ve never had a job have you ?
I’ve had many. None of them did this to me. If they wanted to see what I could do they would put me in a real but low stakes situation with supervision and see how I performed. You’ve become accustomed to the inexcusable to the point where you’re making excuses on its behalf. I pity you.
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.
LLMs have made that kind of thing moot for LLM users. Honest ones, not so much.
You learn to spot LLM cover letters pretty quickly. And anybody who slips by won’t survive an interview.
Oh hey, here’s one now!
Okay but do you want to do that hundreds or thousands of times?
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.
If you’re filling out the exact same data into forms for 8 hours a day for 50 years, maybe automate it?
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.
Who in Burger King spends all their days filling out the exact same data all the time? Most people I see at Burger King are making food.
I was replying to the person saying that it’s important that people show they can fill out forms with precision and I’m saying that filling out the same exact data into a bunch of forms isn’t what anyone does at their job because if it was, that position should be automated away anyway.
Then they fire me, keep the software, and make someone else do 2 jobs. ☹️
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.
Real talk - it’s a complete waste of time and a product of corporate complacency
I’m happy to do mundane paperwork IF I’m getting paid to do it.
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