Especially with the rise of “ghost postings” so quantity over quality is greater than ever these days

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    11 hours ago

    Maybe it’s the shit market that I’m applying to, but when I apply for a retail job, they want a fully filled out application (that auto fill always Borks, so I have to type everything in manually) as well as a cover sheet and some places want you to take a personality quiz that you have to pass for hr to even see your application. I couldn’t imagine applying to 4 jobs a day, let alone 40.

    I imagine we are talking about corporate postings where you just paste a link to LinkedIn and that does most of the work?

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      8 hours ago

      if indeed doesn’t allow me to quick apply, it’s gotta be a dream job to even want to go to their site and do even more work.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, about that cover sheet. Did you not get the memo? We’re putting new cover sheets on all the applications now, mmmkay? If you could just do that from now, that’d be great.

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      Jesus that sounds so demeaning. I haven’t had to apply for a job in about 15 years now. All networking, and I was poached and offered my current job. Union now, so I’m set. I don’t remember having to jump through so many hoops when I was younger and applying for a job, but recently I passed by a Wendy’s and there must have been 50 people lined up outside with resumes because there was a job posting. That many people for one burger job, that’s hard times.