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Ok, so today I am going to speak off topic about something that just irritates the living crap out of me, this has nothing at all to do with development or theme builds for WordPress…but hey, what’s the good of having your own web voice if you don’t use it to voice concerns once in awhile too right? So I work freelance, which anyone who has ever worked freelance knows this means you normally work a regular day job also. With the economy being so poor lately it makes it harder to find freelance jobs and much harder to find a regular day gig. So with that having been said, most of us go to places like Career Builder or Monster Jobs to hunt for a regular day gig and search the freelance boards in the evenings.

So this morning, being the weekend and all, I start looking through jobs as I usually do since being laid off at the beginning of the economic crisis. I find this job that looks promising, I click the link, and suddenly I am transported on a site outside of career builder. Now I read on, everything looks even better but wait…I have to sign-up at their site to even apply for this job? Ok, so I give in a sign up and once I am inside I find out I have to recopy my entire resume over again to get it into their database (which they will most likely only keep on file for a month or until that position is filled). Alright, so I give in and copy my entire resume over to their database and fill out their questionnaire, and fill in whatever other stuff they need. Wow, guess what…that took me about 30 minutes of my time to just APPLY for this job. No promises, no guarantees, nothing but the hopes that they will choose my resume!

To The Perspective Employers

So here’s something perhaps you did not even think about if you are an employer…did you ever stop to think that when it comes to applying for jobs now days it is all about the numbers? We are a nation of people that have been thrust out of our comfortable jobs, our houses forclosed, our banking accounts in the red and you expect us to take 30 minutes per job application?!!! The WHOLE reason anyone even bothers to register at a site like Career Builder or Monster is so we can apply for as many jobs as possible in very little time! Do not waste our time making us fill out registration on yet another site. The fact is if you just conform to the system that places like Career Builder and Monster have put into place you will get more applicants.

I know what many of you are thinking, you are thinking “Well, anyone who goes to the trouble to fill out the extra stuff is the kind of person they will look for” right? Wrong! Let me tell you I am perfectly qualified to every position I apply to, I am a hard worker, responsible, dedicated, and dependable but I also have bills to pay NOW not 3 months from now. So, with this in mind you must realize me and the hundreds of others like me are not going to spend 30 minutes on one application when we can apply to 50 others in the same amount of time it took me to fill out your “extra stuff”. I mean think about it, what gives me a much better chance of landing a job more quickly?

Back to the Lecture at Hand

I am much more confident that I will land a job filling out more applications than I will spending 30 minutes on one application. Now days I think most of us out of work are more concerned about a dependable paying job rather than a job we specifically love like the old days. In todays work force there are so many looking for work we simply cannot afford to be picky about our employment anymore. Unfortunately this works against us since most employers know this…especially in a right to work state like Florida where I live but that is another discussion entirely.

So let’s hope that companies hiring get a clue and stop the stupidity of pulling people away from their job site to apply for a job. Such a waste of time and resources, not to mention you are missing out on many good applicants, I am one of them because as badly as I need a day gig…it makes no sense for me to spend so much time on one single application in the hopes of being the “Chosen One”…

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